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One of three men charged in the death of a man at Mo's Place last year appeared for a short hearing Monday morning.
Rodolfo Hernandez, 44, appeared in Placerville with attorney David Cramer and a translator while Judge James R. Wagoner announced dates related to the case.
A motion to transfer the case to South Lake Tahoe is expected to be filed by Cramer by Friday. Responses from prosecutors are due by May 1.
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Wagoner granted Cramer's request that grand jury transcripts related to the case continue to be sealed during the Monday hearing.
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Penaranda was allegedly asked to leave due to unruly conduct and punched bar owner Manish "Mo" Patel, knocking him unconscious. The bouncers reacted and detained Penaranda, who was also knocked unconscious, according to police.
"By the time (South Lake Tahoe Police Department) arrives, the victim has been deprived of blood flow to the brain for long enough to put him into a 'persistent vegetative state' from which he never recovers," said Alexander. He had no pulse, but through CPR, firefighters were able to re-establish a heartbeat.
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I'm able to use XvMc with xine only to play video.
But, there is a little problem: Opening a video result to a display of black and white strips. To resolve, just switch to fullscreen and/or go back to windowed mode.
I make this thread with the intention of gathering information on the current state of usability of UVD and UVD2 in linux.
I am a novice when it comes to understanding driver architecture and difficulties concerning them, so if anyone would like to give an introduction to why UVD / UVD2 as of now is not useable, it would be much appreaciated.
I'll come with the first (obvious) update:
from: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=Njc4OAIn fact, the official release of Catalyst 8.10 doesn't have a whole lot worth talking about. It does have UVD Linux support enabled to accelerate video playback via the XvMC extension and their own HD video interface. However, all attempts at using XvMC with mplayer have failed thus far and AMD has been mum on how to actually use this feature. This looks like another feature we'll need to wait until Catalyst 8.11 to find out more.
Now for some of my own questions:
1. Will it ever be possible to use this feature? Will I ever be able to make the GPU decode my x264 encoded material?
2. How will programs make use of this feature?
3. As video tearing is a common problem at the moment many people are using built in graphics or a nVidia add-on card instead (in case of for example a 780g chipset) - will it be possible to make use of UVD when you are using another video card?
Hope these questions make even remotely sense for you guys!
I'm able to use XvMc with xine only to play video.
But, there is a little problem: Opening a video result to a display of black and white strips. To resolve, just switch to fullscreen and/or go back to windowed mode.
Last edited by milambert; 10-23-2008 at 12:51 PM.
Have you tested a x264 video and measured CPU load with and without XvMc?
1) I believe that XvMC can only (currently) accelerate Mpeg2, so when using it for h.264 it shouldn't be doing any acceleration.
2) currently you have to choose a rendering backend. (in catalyst they may provide their own proprietary renderer
3) Nope. Because video acceleration tends to be done in a series of stages acceleration tends to stay inside the gpu (well at least full bitstream decoding), and getting the two different cards to talk to each other would be a nightmare. But it would be nice to be able to seperate decode and rendering like in dxva2.
Last edited by _txf_; 10-22-2008 at 05:16 PM. Reason: actually answer the questions
Hi, are you shure you are using XvMc ?
And xine is not a falling back to xv ?
I wonder which libraries are used (and how) for the xvmc functions.
I can not find them.
(and the new libs libAMDXvBA.so.1.0 which could provide XvMc and UVD
are not used anywhere as far as I can tell. Even worse, they are not installed in a 64bit system (according to the install script
because "maximus" is not ready for 64bit).
Greetings Rene
Also, did you modify your XvMC wrapper to use the new AMD library? I thought I had already tried Xine to no avail but maybe I skipped over it.
i about to buy a 790fx board and will be watching dvd's on it, so working video playback is not optional.
it seems that video works for some and doenst work for others. does anyone know what combination of libraries and kernel versions work ?
i assume everyone is 64 bit kernel and libs ?
xorg 1.4 or 1.3 work ?
xv work ? (all i need is dvd playback)
if none of those work, how well does software decoding work with mplayer? i suppose software decoding works fine but i kinda doubt it would scale to 1920 x 1200 very well. could anyone tell me if this works.
btw... i would be installing gentoo on new 790fx board, i dont think specific packages should be a problem.
Hmm it seems like I wont be using UVD to decode my movies then. But im in the process of finding some hardware for my media center, and im still considering a 790g chipset and just use nvidia card till driver support is adequate.
Think a 4800 X2 cpu can handle 720p or 1080p x264 videos?
I will probably regularly be checking how good the drivers are for UVD and will bump this thread when that happens - unless someone beats me to it!
Btw, any recommendations on a small sized touchscreen with good support in linux?
Remember that there are several levels of "video acceleration" to think about :
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2. "Real soon now" state for 780/790 - render acceleration done by GPU via Xv, decode done by CPU
3. Possible next step -- render acceleration done by GPU via Xv, motion comp portion of decode acceleration done by GPU, remaining decode acceleration done on CPU. Probably need extensions to XvMC in order to handle odd block sizes for H.264/VC-1.
4. Remaining decode done on GPU, possibly on UVD/UVD2
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In emerging markets around the world, the spending power of consumers is rapidly changing the retail industry, both globally and locally. Multinational retailers seeking new sources of growth are watching the mass markets of Brazil, China, and India, whose large populations and strong economic growth have made them nearly irresistible. As consumers have greater disposable income, they increasingly spend their money on items beyond the basic necessities. One of the first categories to feel this change is apparel.
To understand more fully what it would take for retailers to succeed in these markets, McKinsey conducted a proprietary research project on apparel-shopping attitudes and behavior in Brazil, China, and India. Our sample consisted solely of women,1 1. The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of their colleagues Susan Breuer, Claudio Lensing, Savita Pai, and Khiloni Westphely. who in many markets not only decide what clothes to buy for themselves but also influence clothing purchases for their children and husbands. We supplemented this quantitative research with dozens of focus groups, store visits, interviews, and shopping diaries.
Our special report comprises articles on the retailing of mass-market apparel in China, India, and Brazil.
"China: Small budgets, small wardrobes" shows how the country's fickle consumers and strong local competitors threaten to undermine the multinationals' efforts.
"India: Shopping with the family" explains the different roles that Indian women, men, and children play in making decisions about apparel and the way the market there is evolving.
"Brazil: Fashion conscious, credit ready" describes that country's enthusiastic shoppers, as well as the efforts of banks and retailers racing to meet their credit needs.
Despite rapid growth, China's apparel market presents global retailers with significant challenges. A McKinsey survey of Chinese consumers underscores the difficulty multinational retailers may face in applying to China their tried-and-true formulas for differentiating products and brands and suggests that they should adopt new approaches in areas such as in-store sales and advertising. Moreover, the survey highlights important differences between average Chinese apparel shoppers and the country's young adults—a group that offers global retailers some intriguing possibilities.
These findings emerged from a research effort that combined a quantitative survey of urban mass-market consumers with qualitative research techniques, including shopper diaries, store visits, and focus groups.1 1. We surveyed the apparel-shopping attitudes and behavior of 300 women, who in China (as in many other markets) not only decide what clothes to buy for themselves but also influence the clothing purchases of their children and husbands. We studied the mass market because it increasingly drives the rapid growth (12 percent a year) of China's $84 billion retail apparel market and represents a significant opportunity for foreign retailers to expand beyond the high-end consumers they have served since the early 1990s2 2.In memoriam: We dedicate this collection to the memory of Alastair Ramsay, a partner in McKinsey's London office, who founded and led this research project. Alastair passed away in June 2007. He inspired us with his commitment to client service, as well as his warmth and compassion as a leader. China's apparel market is now the world's third largest—behind only the United States ($232 billion) and Japan ($100 billion)—and the fastest-growing in the "BRIC" countries: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Seventy percent of apparel sales in urban China take place in modern formats (typically, department stores, though more specialized shops have recently begun to emerge).
Our research indicates that China's mass-market consumers have relatively small, undifferentiated wardrobes. Forty percent of the Chinese respondents, for example, report wearing similar clothing at work, formal social occasions (such as weddings), and dates with friends or family, compared with only 8, 13, and 11 percent of consumers in Brazil, India, and Russia, respectively. Although habits are changing, apparel retailers in China may find it more challenging than they do in other emerging markets to establish themselves as specialists in clothing subcategories, such as ladies' office clothing or specialty outdoor casual clothing.
Moreover, Chinese consumers of apparel don't appear to place a premium on foreign brands. Only one-quarter of the respondents say that such brands offer better value than local ones do, for instance, and only 11 percent report frequently trying on foreign offerings. These figures stand in stark contrast to our findings in India, where about 50 percent of respondents say that international brands are superior in value or quality. What's more, Chinese shoppers seem to rely more heavily on price to form their perceptions of a product's quality than do shoppers elsewhere. Whereas nearly half of the respondents in Brazil, India, and Russia believe that they can quickly assess the quality of a garment without taking its cost into account, only 22 percent of Chinese consumers say the same.
China's urban young adults, from 18 to 25 years old—a segment comprising about 15 million people—represent an exception to these tendencies. Many young consumers favor international brands. Half agree that "foreign brands are higher quality than local brands," compared with an average of 15 percent across all other age cohorts. Similarly, 36 percent of China's young adults say they often try on foreign products and brands, compared with an average of only 13 percent of other respondents. Although young consumers behave differently from older ones in all of the countries we studied, the differences in China were by far the most pronounced (Exhibit 1). There young consumers also shop for apparel more frequently than do people in other age groups, spend larger sums on clothing, and are disposed to spend even more as their incomes rise (Exhibit 2).
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These findings have several implications for global retailers. Clearly, targeting the young is a ripe opportunity and may require fewer changes to traditional merchandising and marketing approaches than serving older consumers would. To reach this brand-savvy segment, multinationals can create new, niche brands that convey specific personality traits—for example, irreverence or creativity. Retailers can also create lower-priced extensions of existing brands, as France's Etam has with its "Etam Weekend" line.
Further, multinational retailers should help shoppers become better informed about clothing subcategories, product quality, and international brands. The recent strong growth of sportswear subcategories such as hiking and mountain-climbing lifestyle apparel suggests that the Chinese consumer's desires are changing and could change faster if nudged. Companies that seek to shape the mass market's evolution—say, through in-store sales efforts that highlight product features, seminars to help consumers discern product quality and craftsmanship, or advertising focused on the benefits of particular subcategories—should help improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. Esprit, based in Hong Kong, has successfully extended its brand into an increasingly diverse range of clothing lines (including casual, sporting, and work) by combining in-store elements (such as tailored display racks, lighting, and music) to communicate the essence of various subcategories.
As global retailers contemplate China's mass market, they must recognize that they face more powerful local competitors there than in the higher end of the market. Indeed, the cost advantages of local players and their increasing ability to learn from global retailers' store layouts and promotional campaigns will likely make it difficult to enter China's mass market with a pure-value play. An alternative approach, which multinationals such as Zara are starting to use, involves identifying consumers willing to pay more for the latest fashions. By creating low-cost yet trendy stand-alone outlets in upscale malls or shopping districts (as opposed to department stores), retailers can appeal simultaneously to mass-market consumers with premium tastes and to higher-end customers prowling for bargains. Such strategies hold great promise as China's mass market grows larger and richer.
Wai-Chan Chan and Richard Cheung are principals and Anne Tse is an associate principal in McKinsey's Hong Kong office.
Indians devote roughly the same share of their income to apparel as do Chinese and Brazilians. But the country's lower per capita income levels mean overall spending on apparel is significantly lower, and the habits of Indian shoppers present intriguing challenges for multinationals eyeing the market.1 1. In India, laws governing foreign investment by retailers are slowly evolving. Currently, single-brand foreign retailers may hold controlling stakes (up to 51 percent), but multibrand foreign companies are able toinvest only in the "cash-n-carry" segment (up to 100 percent) or buy a stake in a publicly listed retailer (up to 26 percent). In a cash-n-carry operation, a wholesaler sells to offices, hotels, and retailers that become its members. For starters, nearly 40 percent of the mass-market Indian shoppers2 2. For research purposes, we defined Chinese high-end (or global) consumers as those with annual household incomes greater than $12,200 (at 2005 exchange rates); mass-market consumers, incomes from $3,000 to $12,200; and struggling consumers, incomes below $3,000. The mass market can be further subdivided into a "consuming" group (with incomes from $5,000 to $12,200) and an "aspiring" one ($3,000 to $5,000). we surveyed said that their most important shopping occasions revolved around special events, such as weddings and annual religious festivals—a figure dramatically higher than the one for shoppers in the other emerging markets we studied. Furthermore, to a greater extent than elsewhere, shopping is a family activity in India: nearly 70 percent of its shoppers always go to stores with family, and 74 percent—more than twice the average of Brazil, China, and Russia—view shopping as the best way to spend time with family. The preference for family-oriented shopping is consistent across age groups, income segments, regions, and city sizes.
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As in many markets, in India women are the primary decision makers in apparel purchases for the entire family. But India's men also have an important role: indeed, half of our survey respondents said that their husbands had a major influence on which stores they frequented—a proportion far higher than the one for Brazil (3 percent), China (8 percent), and Russia (18 percent). What's more, India is unusual in that the market for men's apparel is larger than the women's market, where traditional Indian apparel still dominates. Mass-market apparel retailers must therefore find formats and merchandising approaches that will attract shoppers seeking apparel not only for special occasions but also appealing to the entire family.
Kartik Sheth is a consultant and Ireena Vittal is a principal in McKinsey's Mumbai office.
Brazil's apparel market—large, growing, and mostly untapped by multinational competitors—seems like a big retailer's dream. A McKinsey survey of the country's consumers, however, underscores the significant challenges for global players. These issues include product demands that differ from those in their home markets, a strong preference for local fashions, and the unique combination of widespread consumer credit use and an undeveloped consumer credit market.
We reached those conclusions by combining a quantitative survey of Brazil's urban mass-market consumers with qualitative research that included shopper diaries, store visits, and focus groups.1 1. To survey Brazilian attitudes toward credit, we drew on a larger sample encompassing 300 apparel consumers, plus 1,200 food shoppers. (For more on the results of our food research in Brazil, see Nicola Calicchio, Tracy Francis, and Alastair Ramsay, "How big retailers can serve Brazil's mass-market shoppers," The McKinsey Quarterly, 2007 special edition: Shaping a new agenda for Latin America, pp. 50–7. The subject of our analysis is the world's fifth-largest apparel market, which is growing at 7 percent a year. Although multinational retailers (such as Mango, Miss Sixty, and Zara) have succeeded in serving the country's wealthy consumers for several years, very few global retailers compete in its mass market.2 2. In India, rather than using only income bands to define categories of consumers, we used the socioeconomic class codes established by the Market Research Society of India. High-end or "global" consumers are those in socioeconomic class (SEC) A, mass-market consumers are those in SECs B and C, and struggling consumers are represented by SECs D and E. In addition to household income, the class codes incorporate levels of education and occupation. Instead, informal "mom-and-pop" stores (some of which skirt taxes to obtain a competitive edge) and large local single-format retailers dominate Brazil's mass market, ringing up more than 60 percent of the country's apparel sales.3 3. We surveyed 6,000 consumers of food, apparel, and electronics in Brazil, China, India, and Russia, including 900 women across Brazil, China, and India, specifically on apparel. In addition we surveyed 1,600 shoppers in France and the United States for the purposes of comparison.
As multinational apparel retailers contemplate entering Brazil's mass market, they must come to grips with a consumer landscape that differs considerably from what they find in most developed and many emerging markets. For starters, Brazil's consumers are extremely fond of shopping for clothes: almost 80 percent of our respondents look forward to it, a figure much higher than those for China and Russia, though about the same as the one for India (Exhibit 1). In addition, more than half of Brazil's shoppers say they use most of the clothing they buy for going out with friends and family; the proportion giving that answer in China, India, and Russia is much lower (Exhibit 2).
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Furthermore, Brazil's mass-market apparel shoppers seem particularly conscious of fashion; only in Brazil did it rank among the top three attributes at preferred stores. Fashion trends there are strongly shaped by local celebrities (in particular, prominent characters from popular television soap operas), and only local retailers (with a few noteworthy exceptions) consistently offer the mass-market segment these fashions. Today many of these local retailers and the local brands they sell are highly regarded by Brazilian shoppers: 81 percent of our respondents agree with the statement, "I trust local brands," compared with a bit less than half of those we surveyed in China, India, and Russia. Similarly, only 11 percent of Brazilians agree that "foreign brands are higher quality than local brands"—a proportion much smaller than it is in the other countries we studied, although shoppers there also exhibit some degree of resistance to foreign brands (Exhibit 3). Some of the multinationals that have had more success in the Brazilian market, such as the European apparel retailer C&A, have established local identities, for example, by running campaigns featuring Brazilian supermodels.
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Finally, Brazilians are far more open to using credit than are consumers in the other markets we studied. More than 60 percent of the respondents in Brazil agreed with the statement, "I think it is perfectly all right to shop for products on credit," for example, compared with 30 percent in India, 24 percent in Russia, and 13 percent in China. What's more, 65 percent of the Brazilians had bought something on credit during the past six months, compared with 25, 9, and 8 percent of the shoppers in Russia, China, and India, respectively. This comfort with debt has fueled the spectacular expansion of Brazil's credit industry, whose revenues have grown at rates exceeding 26 percent a year since 2001.4 4. Alexandre J. Sawaya, "Financing Latin America's low-income consumers," The McKinsey Quarterly, 2007 special edition: Shaping a new agenda for Latin America, pp. 58–69.
Paradoxically, however, Brazil's credit-reporting system is relatively undeveloped. The country's banks give the credit providers information about consumers who have defaulted on debts but not about their "positive" credit histories (for instance, repaying debt on time).5 5. This situation contrasts starkly with the one in most developed countries, where lenders have access to both positive and negative information, and consumers with positive histories can get more credit and lower interest rates. For more on this topic, see Andre Bailey, Suzi Chun, and Jeffrey Wong, "Wanted: Asian credit bureaus," The McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 special edition: The value in organization, pp. 16–9. Because of the absence of comprehensive credit profiles, general-purpose credit cards are rare in Brazil, particularly among mass-market consumers. Still, the proclivity of Brazilians to buy clothes on credit means that retailers face a competitive disadvantage if they restrict their customers to cash payments. All major local and multinational apparel retailers therefore offer cards with low initial spending limits that increase as consumers prove their creditworthiness.6 6. Smaller, less-sophisticated retailers who can't afford to offer credit cards often allow shoppers to pay for purchases in installments, with postdated checks. These private-label cards—offered through retailer-owned finance operations or joint ventures with banks—now finance around 70 percent of total sales for Brazil's larger apparel retailers and sometimes generate profits comparable to those that retailers earn from apparel purchases.
Multinationals eyeing opportunities in Brazil's mass market for apparel will thus need to develop new skills, since they would be competing against local retailers that often are better credit underwriters for mass-market customers than are large retail banks. (Local retailers, for instance, have higher penetration and lower loss rates.) Multinationals will also have to manage their promotions differently. In developed markets, promotional campaigns, for example, tend to be seasonal and product specific, but apparel retailers in Brazil use attractive credit offerings, such as installment payments, to entice customers.
To take advantage of Brazil's unique market characteristics, the multinationals will have to concentrate on hiring strong local management teams that excel both at merchandising and at helping to craft competitive credit offerings. Domestic retailers, for their part, should capitalize on their skill advantages by expanding beyond the major cities, competing in new formats, and taking market share from the informal retailers—thus capturing the large growth opportunities before their multinational competitors can.
Manuela Artigas is an associate principal and Nicola Calicchio is a director in McKinsey's São Paulo office.
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For radeonsi acceleration in Debian to work at all, you need glamor enabled xserver-xorg-video-radeon from experimental.
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In my previous UX Mag article, I asked the UX community to start thinking about integrated experiences across physical and digital touchpoints—in other words, to design for a holistic customer experience (CX). Since writing that article, I've become even more convinced that we, as a community of UX professionals, need to quickly find our place in the growing discipline of CX to avoid losing the visibility and support we have gained in the last few years.
The number of companies across industries talking about (and hiring for) CX is exploding. And guess what? We aren't the ones getting the newly created C-level positions of Chief Customer Officer.
While CX is becoming a key competency for many companies, there isn't an agreed upon definition. I view it as an extension of UX, where non-digital experiences and services are just as important as screen interactions, and the full range of touchpoints with a brand across time has to be explicitly designed.
Customer Focus Is Replacing Marketing Focus
In a Harvard Business Review article titled Rethinking Marketing, the authors argue that "the marketing department must be reinvented as a 'customer department' that replaces the CMO with a chief customer officer." Designing customer experiences—not just user experiences—is where companies are increasingly putting their focus. Ninety percent of executives surveyed by Forrester Research said CX is either very important or critical to their future plans. Customers increasingly expect companies to create successful interactions "throughout the entire arc of being a customer." Some of these interactions include websites and mobile apps, but others may be face-to-face, via a call center, or even with what we view as obnoxious advertising.
Act Fast, or Lose Our Value
One of Forrester's top CX predictions for the year is that more departments within organizations will try to get actively involved with CX. This rush to focus on the customer is happening at all different types of companies and industries. Suddenly the customer is HOT. The new popularity of customer centricity means "technology companies of all shapes and sizes have started to rebrand themselves as customer experience management (CEM) vendors." In fact, Forrester predicts an "all-out war" to own the CX management space. This is already a top strategy for powerful vendors such as Adobe. Designing good customer experiences has become a business differentiator, and everyone wants a part of the action.
Given the current power of CX at the C-level, UX practitioners must step up our game, otherwise we will lose progress we have made to be more deeply involved in strategy beyond just performing usability services. We need to act now to be part of the broader CX solution. If we don't proactively collaborate across divisions and organizational structures, we will be stuck playing in the corner by ourselves. If we don't figure out how to manage partnerships with other departments in a collaborative, creative, customer focused way, the discipline of UX as we know it is at risk. CX management will take over.
Get Off Our High Horse
This means that we need to stop blaming marketing and instead join forces with them to partner on CX. I've thrown a few rocks myself, at times frustrated by a group who may seem to only care about driving traffic and pushing products, regardless of the experience. But experience and marketing can't be separated. Kerry Bodine, CX analyst at Forrester suggests, "Customer experience and marketing are increasingly intertwined… it's hard to tease out exactly where the experience ends and the marketing begins (or vice versa)."
UX and marketing are both required to create good customer experiences. We can't do it alone. We need someone focusing on sales generating demand for a site or an app that employs UX work. Rather than fighting with marketing, we need to partner to engage customers via good experiences. Peter Merholz speaks of "the viewpoint of marketing, where 'the brand' is the top priority" leading to "designing from the inside-out, and the results is a superficial gloss." However, we can't go to the other extreme and design only for what customers want. Our companies need to bring in profits in addition to satisfying customers.
End the False Dichotomy
Marketing isn't all evil, and UX isn't all good. Decrying marketing departments and saying they do crummy or manipulative work (even when true) isn't going to help the UX discipline. More importantly, it isn't going to help customers either. Content strategy guru Karen McGrane has some simple advice: "If you hate ads, then figure out a way to make the experience of ads better. That's your job, isn't it?" We can't just turn our backs on business practices we don't like.
Advertising and marketing aren't going away. Rather than being adversarial, we need to listen to David Moskovic when he encourages collaboration between UX and marketing: "Marketing needs to start integrating UX design processes into a holistic view of digital (and beyond) customer interactions" and "UX practitioners need to acquire a better understanding of marketing's priorities and brand management practices."
Embrace the Dark Side
As technology becomes increasingly ubiquitous in people's lives, and as consumers gain increasing control of communications and choices, the entire discipline of marketing is being forced to change. Initiatives to improve CX are now driving marketing dollars, marketing technology, and marketing staffing decisions. The UX community has a great tradition of learning from other disciplines such as psychology, physical architecture, and sociology, but we generally don't learn enough from marketing. We should spend less time making our deliverables perfect, instead using that time to learn from the folks who create advertisements, send direct mail, use microsites, and manage paid search. The experience cannot be separated from marketing communications; we should be helping marketing create more customer friendly advertising and encourage their participation in creating the CX.
True innovation can come from the natural creative tension between focusing on brand needs and customer needs. I worked in Amazon's customer service department when they launched 1-Click purchasing in 1998. And guess what—at first, most customers hated it. We had record numbers of calls and emails complaining about 1-Click, saying it was too easy to make a purchase. So easy, in fact, that customers accidentally bought items and were furious that we had "tricked" them into it. But rather than getting rid of 1-Click, Amazon recognized that customers could be educated to love the convenience of this purchase option. How many UX departments on their own would have made that decision? Can we argue that it was a bad one for customers?
Stop Being Snobs
I didn't realize until this year that I have actually been doing CX work for almost 25 years, not just the dozen or so I normally put in my resume. Why? Because I didn't think to count my ten years in the restaurant business. But now I recognize that those ten years were spent designing and executing customer experiences, just in a different medium than via a website or app. I developed my customer-centric DNA while slinging martinis and rushing to deliver food while it was still hot. I spent ten years asking customers what they wanted, but decided to ignore those hard-won insights when I got my degrees and a white-collar job.
Likewise, I used to be embarrassed that I started my Amazon career in customer service answering phones and email. But now I recognize the need to build relationships with our call center team, brick-and-mortar store managers, trainers, and employees, and I am proud of my time on the front lines interacting directly with customers. Yes, design seems to have a cool-factor that many of us are delighted to play up, but understanding users' needs, increasing consumer satisfaction, and creating the best customer experiences we can is really all about service. The service design folks understand that good experiences require unity from all aspects of an experience, not just the cool digital stuff.
Give Up Control
Because CX has become a critical business focus, we have to get comfortable with everyone in an organization wanting to play in "our" sandbox. More and more people are talking about what we do, and sometimes explaining it incorrectly. We need to be okay with that. Having partners and allies means other people outside of the UX department are talking about users. It also means that other people may start to take credit for some of our work. But we need to get over that. Cynthia Thomas explains, "experiences should seem to originate from the whole company," which means they can't just come from just the UX department. This is great too, as it means that the value of designing good experiences has become widely understood.
We need to take the opportunity to educate those interested in customer experience in the value we can bring. We have been thinking about the end user for a long time, and many of our tools and methodologies can be used to design holistic experiences, onscreen or off. The more we can evangelize actionable ways of putting the customer first, the more we'll be able to influence a broader CX strategy. This is how we'll be invited into enterprise-level CX and to fill those chief customer experience officer roles.
These views are solely the author's and do not represent the views of REI.
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Very chunky article indeed. I was really interested to read your comments about marketing departments:
"Marketing needs to start integrating UX design processes into a holistic view of digital (and beyond) customer interactions" and "UX practitioners need to acquire a better understanding of marketing's priorities and brand management practices."
I have to ask - are marketeers really that far behind the times when it comes to understanding the importance of UX design?
An important article -- thanks much.
I've authored a short follow-up in my blog, referencing the history of the CCO role and including pointers to articles and blog postings that might be of help to those interested in sharing the sandbox and in seeing UX management personnel take on the role of CCO in the future: http://bit.ly/eSgQkH.
John Ayers - agree with you 100%
and yup, everybody needs to work together, and people do different things. nothing new there.
top management gets bored easily, and UX was the new 'cool', but it didn't magically turn companies into new Apples, so they're looking to the 'new' and exciting CX for help...
uxdesign.com - Good perspective, thanks for including. I've been noticing more companies changing their view of the marketing discipline to be much more bottom up and focused on the customer vs. the organization. The recession seems to have facilitated an interesting shift for some industries that is driving multiple business units to focus more on the customer (or user) than I have ever seen.
That said, I think what you have called out is extremely important, and actually desirable in some ways. Someone should have a primary focus on the organization or business goals, and someone on the customer, because this creates a natural tension to drive the best experience that also serves the company's needs. Good stuff, you give me lots to think about.
John A. - thanks for pointing out that none of this tension is new and that we just like to change the labels :) Which is one reason I prefer to avoid the customer/user/guest battle.
Jonas - thanks for the URL! As an 'innie', I would love to see how it might adapt or be helpful for our processes. Let's stay in touch.
John F. - interesting perspective on user vs. customer, and one I haven't heard in quite that way before. This perks a lot of ideas related to marketing and ux in my head...
All well and... okay. But there is a fundamental difference between marketing and user experience design disciplines. Marketing serves the organization primarily, and typically perceives the relationship from in inside-out point of view. There is often a element of manipulation in marketing communications, too. UX design, with it roots squarely in human-computer interaction (hence "user", an inherently computer-centric term), takes the opposite point of view: look at the organization from the outside-in, challenge the status quo, and serve the user (individual) first, foremost, and, sometimes, even at apparent cost to the organization. Another way to put it is marketing exists to serve the organization and UX exists to serve the user: the form it a top-down power relationship, the later a bottom up one, intended to empower the individual. That said, the central point is not difference but the need to collaborate, more, better, and differently. On this I'm sure we agree. After all, designers in large, traditional (political/industrial) organizations are at best design influencers, and as such must build alliances in order to affect the necessary shifts in perception good or great UX design demands.
Great article! Interestingly enough, IDEO has called one of their practices CXD for years, for Customer Experience Design. Economically speaking what separates a customer from a user is cash, something we all need for our businesses to survive to create delight for future customers.
@Samantha: You can read more about the model at brandtouchpointmatrix.com - I would love to share some successful examples where we've used this together with ad agencies but I think we're still in the process of getting everyone to understand and accept this method.
We've noticed that individual people think our model is great, but it's harder to incorporate it into existing workflows and agency business models.
Great information. and I am very interested in the space.
Though, I must admit my perspective is that UX, and as noted CX is a web 3.0 way to speak of advertising 101.
Customer, consumer, user or whomever we'd like to define them as... are really the reason for being.
If we have a product or service - it exists solely for those interested in it.
This is not new... just new names for new experiences... but the core primal reasons remain the same.
Thanks, Jonas! I would love to hear more about that Brand Touchpoint Matrix - do you have any examples you can share? I would love to hear of any specific tools or tactics that anyone has used to help with these active partnerships with Marketing and other teams.


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At least from this test it looks like there is simply no point in even having an NVidia 620 video card in a laptop - the Intel GPU is almost as fast.
Phoronix: NVIDIA Optimus On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux vs. Windows 8.1
With having picked up an ASUS Zenbook Prime UX32VD recently that features Intel HD Graphics 4000 and the discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 620M graphics, I decided to run some benchmarks seeing how the currently available Linux solutions for supporting NVIDIA's "Optimus" technology are comparing to Windows 8.1. The benchmarks in this article compare the performance of this Core i7 3517U ultrabook between its stock operating system to Ubuntu 13.10 with its stock open-source packages, to using DRI PRIME, and then lastly using the "Bumblebee" solution with the NVIDIA binary driver.
At least from this test it looks like there is simply no point in even having an NVidia 620 video card in a laptop - the Intel GPU is almost as fast.
Just want to be clear. With bumblebee, did you use the optirun backend ("optirun /path/to/executable"), or the primus backend ("primusrun /path/to/executable") ? Primus offers much better performance.
Looks like he used optirun instead of primusrun, which is a lot lot lot lot slower, as it uses VirtualGL which is built for a much different purpose. Check here
wtf is this bullshit? never heard of NVIDIA-PRIMUS package? works out of box, just install it.
Well, it has now switching support: http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/more-...imus.html#more
This is for Trusty, but I've backported it to Saucy: https://launchpad.net/~joern-schoeny...prime-backport
(There are also packages for Precise, but the blob is still missing and it's not tested yet)
I can switch easily - okay okay, I have to log out and in again. But that's totally fine for me. Michael, would you be so kind and benchmark this, too? :-)
except using bumblebee there are no other way to run an application on the gpu you want?


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Love all the negativity. The team just went to the finals and over achieved getting there.
whatever! Henrik's insane contract is going to kill this team for many years!!!
sather is just another one of dolans favs and as long as the fans are in their seats getting a cup is secondary to the comfort level in the fo and owners box.
That's why they spend more than any team and make trades like MSL?!? Johnny W said it well...Yikes
@cole3244 2 ECF runs and a Stanley Cup run last summer and you are still mad at Sather? Granted I'm not his biggest fan but we've had some really good runs the past 3 years and a few timely goals away from a Cup. Yikes.
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Well, we need something new to make fun of now that DNF is officially dead
Phoronix: UT3 Linux Is "Slowly Being Worked On"
Unreal Tournament 3 was released for the PC nearly two years ago, and there was the promise of a Linux client and it was being worked on by Ryan Gordon, but to this day there is still no such client. Back in March it was said that it was still undergoing work, but there was no ETA for its completion...
Well, we need something new to make fun of now that DNF is officially dead
Although from the day one I believed that I'll play this game on linux, but now I think that kind of statements are more like : "I'll tell community once a while that game is still under development so some poor noobs will still wait for linux client... *here put evil laugh* " :/
Should not be this difficult. Clearly something else is going on that they're not telling us. But whatever. Not quite dead yet is still better than six feet under. I'll still buy it if it comes out, but every day that passes diminishes how much I'm willing to pay for it.
I think it's to late to buy this game. If it comes out today, I wouldn't buy it anymore. Why should I buy a two year old game? Mr. Gorden could spend his time for other projects now.
Sorry Epic, to late is to late.
If Epic were serious about releasing it, it would have been released by now. Any comments from Epic these days are basically a joke.
We've moved on. The Linux community has already written it off as a failure to release, and due to broken promise after broken promise after vague/useless "update", will continue to treat it as such even in the off-chance an installer materializes.
Cut your losses and develop your next game with the lessons learned from the failure that was UT3/linux.
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Epic Fail!