Glossary

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Customer experience

Definition of customer experience

Customer experience refers to all the interactions a customer has had with the brand. Either during or after the purchase of a product or service.

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Digital

What is digital?

The meaning of digital is above all the digitization of information media. It is the contraction of “Digital Communication” that affects communications in a broad sense in a digital ecosystem.

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Empathy

What does it mean to have empathy?

It is the ability to put yourself in the shoes of others, to understand their lives and to solve problems from their point of view.

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Lean Startup

What is Lean Startup?

Initially developed in the early 2010s by Éric Ries after several business failures, Lean Startup is an approach to launching a product or business whose philosophy is based on the fact of testing its market as quickly as possible in an iterative manner.

Inspired by the lean movement of IT startups in Silicon Valley, the principle is to create an MVP (minimum viable product) in order to be able to confront its customers as quickly as possible, to improve it repeatedly until you find the right formula to sell.

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Agile method

What is working in Agile mode?

Agility is a culture, a work philosophy. Oriented to project management, it is widely used in the IT world.
The result of numerous research studies on work organization whose objective is to meet deadlines and budgets and, above all, to ensure customer satisfaction. It was formalized in 2001 with the creation of the Agile Manifesto.
With the agile approach, customers can (and should) assess the quality of the project being carried out. This allows them to realign the project along the way.

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WireFrame

What is a wireframe?

A wireframe (or wireframe) is the visual representation of the user interface, without any visual design or branding elements. User experience designers use it to define the level of elements on the screen and communicate what elements on the page should be based on the user's needs.

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Business Model Canvas

What is a Business Model Canvas?

The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management model used to develop new business models and document existing ones. Used as a thinking tool, it is available in various versions, but it is composed of a table where you can transcribe elements such as the value proposition, infrastructure, customers, and finances of a company or product. Definite help for businesses to align their activities by illustrating potential trade-offs.

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Card sorting

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Card sorting or card sorting is a method that helps to design a user-centered information architecture based on accurate and numerical data. There are different variants (open, closed remotely...), but the objective is to collect the mental models of users aimed at our information architecture.

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Atomic design

What is atomic design?

Atomic design, a design method that adapts to current digital challenges. Atomic Design is a design technique popularized by Brad Frost in 2013. This modular design approach aims to optimize the creation of a design system that focuses on the design of components.

Expertise

User empathy shapes our creativity

Our goal is to create compelling digital experiences that bring value to users.

DIGITAL PRODUCT DESIGN

Creating exceptional experiences

Customer Experience (CX) DESIGN

A customer experience that stands out

Customer experience (CX) goes far beyond the digital realm. A thorough grasp of the entire customer journey and the various touchpoints users encounter with the product is paramount for creating impactful and successful customer experiences.

Leveraging our technological expertise and proficiency in experience design, we integrate strategic thinking, business requirements, design innovation, and user-centricity into the creative process. This ensures that users, their needs, and their behaviors remain at the forefront of our approach.

USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN (UX)

An easy and functional digital experience

The digital product must meet, or even exceed, customer expectations. Whether you're developing a web application or embarking on an IoT project, optimizing the user experience remains one of the primary challenges for user retention.

Designing digital products with a focus on humanity and empathy enables us to envision innovative solutions while expanding our understanding and knowledge. This approach facilitates a deeper comprehension of user needs, offers fresh perspectives on customer interactions, and ultimately inspire our drive to innovate!

For further insights, we highly recommend exploring the exceptional book: The practical guide to human-centered design by IDEO (PDF | 9.6 MB)

INTERFACE DESIGN (UI)

A pleasant digital environment

While CX and UX design concentrate on comprehending business strategy, user needs, and validating our hypotheses, interface design focuses on translating wireframes into high-definition interfaces and developing a robust style guide that aligns with your brand.

It's not merely about adhering strictly to wireframe models and applying your brand's colors and graphic elements. The goal of UI is to enhance user interaction by crafting an environment that is visually pleasing and easy to navigate. Interface design plays a pivotal and cohesive role in both user experience (UX) and customer experience (CX), as these screens serve as the interface between your organization and your customers.

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Customer experience is the impression left by the digital interactions between a customer and a business.

Marianne Forget
UX designer at Toumoro

What is UX design?

UX is an acronym for User Experience, a term popularized by Donald Norman in the 1990s. This design methodology, as its name implies, aims to encompass all aspects of a person's experience rather than solely focusing on the machine. User experience (UX) primarily represents a mindset applied to your projects. Rooted in scientific principles, it aims to deliver the most optimal and enjoyable interactive experience between the user and the product (or service).

How to Create a Good UX Design

There is not just one approach to user experience, but several. Thus, many components can influence the creation of UX. We like to focus on and balance the three methods that we believe account for the main catalysts of innovation.

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Inspired by industry-leading methodologies

The digital product must meet and exceed customer expectations. We use proven design methodologies to tailor your digital product to meet your business goals. Our aim is to provide solutions that are simpler, more effective, more enjoyable, and more relevant for users.

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Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a user-centered, human-focused approach driven by innovation. Regardless of the field of application, empathy, creativity, co-creation, iteration, and the right to make mistakes are fundamental to this methodology.

The objective of Design Thinking is to leverage design tools and inspire a new organizational workflow in companies, creating a favorable environment for designing innovative products and services for users, collaborators, and consumers.

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Lean UX

This methodology is particularly suitable for digital product design. Integrating principles from Lean Startup, Design Thinking, and Agile methods, it enables a breakdown of silos and shared responsibilities across the entire team. Focused on user needs, the team prioritizes creating value for the user (the outcome) by regularly collecting user feedback. All these efforts are directed towards producing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Design Sprint

The Design Sprint is an innovation approach developed by Google Ventures. Rooted in the guiding principles of Design Thinking and centered on the user, this methodology transforms ideas and hypotheses into a realistic action plan within a short period. It culminates in the creation of a concrete, tangible prototype, which is then tested with real users.

Our Design Process

Inspired by methodologies such as Design Thinking and Lean UX, we have adopted a design process that can be summarized in four main phases. The greatest strength of this process is its flexibility. Depending on the nature of the assignment, the client's needs, and the project's size, the process can be adapted, simplified, or enhanced accordingly.

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The discovery

This phase focuses on defining the needs and identifying the problems to be solved.

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Ideation

Phase that allows us to develop and test ideas seeking to solve the problem.

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The design

This phase involves turning the ideas into practical solutions.

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The realization

During this phase, we support the development team as they bring the project to life.

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We are obsessed with UX and UI design in order to create the best experience for your customers and the best ROI.

Anick Tardif
Vice President, Toumoro

Some of our expertise

In addition to our design process, we also use creative techniques that are widely adopted in the industry:

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Co-creation workshop

Design thrives on teamwork. We advocate for the involvement of all relevant stakeholders throughout the entire process via co-creation workshops. This workshop format ensures active and dynamic participation from all involved parties, making it particularly effective at the project's outset.

The discovery phase entails gathering information to gain a comprehensive understanding of the project, including its objectives, competitors, unique aspects, and the problems to be addressed. During the ideation phase, we harness collective creativity to develop and test innovative ideas, aiming to produce the optimal product for both the customer and its users.

Each step is meticulously synthesized into documents that provide tangible deliverables to the customer.

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User analysis and research

The primary goals of user research are to comprehend users' needs and usage contexts, fostering empathy with them, and validating hypotheses formulated during the creation phase. Immersion in this process is a treasure trove of mutual learning. Whenever possible, we prioritize listening to people, observing them within their contexts, and studying their behaviors to enhance the products we design. It's the essence of user-centered design.

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Customer experience mapping

Originating from marketing principles, this method prioritizes the identification and chronological representation of interactions between a target user and a service or product. The aim is to unveil the key moments of the customer's journey, revealing valuable insights and design opportunities.

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Personas

By crafting profiles depicting archetypes of end users, designers can more effectively immerse themselves in and comprehend the project's challenges. Drawing from field research and past workshops, we breathe life into personas that serve as guiding pillars throughout the design journey.

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Information architecture

The structure and organization of content within a website or web application significantly impact user experience. How users navigate to a particular page or how we guide them through key pages to engage with our offerings is paramount. Information architecture is equally crucial for optimizing search engine visibility (SEO). Additionally, business needs must be carefully considered.

Co-creative workshops, such as card sorting, can be invaluable for testing the hierarchical structure and menu labels. This ensures an intuitive navigation experience that aligns with user expectations and business goals.

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Wireframes

Also known as functional mockups, these representations serve to outline the foundational structure of a website or web application. Developed iteratively, they begin with the bare bones of the site, encompassing key components, navigation elements, and calls to action. Typically rendered in grayscale or blue, their simplicity facilitates rapid validation of concepts, idea testing, and interface adjustments based on user feedback.

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High resolution mockups (UI interfaces)

Graphical interfaces play a fundamental role in shaping the user experience. The aesthetic-usability effect underscores the principle that people perceive more aesthetically pleasing designs as inherently more intuitive. Our graphic models, built upon wireframes, integrate your brand image while infusing them with our creative touch. In interface design, we establish the foundational elements of the design system, including colors, graphic hierarchy, typography, and various components.

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Prototype

Whether at the wireframe or UI interface stage, an interactive prototype created using design tools like Figma simulates the future web application in a highly realistic context. These prototypes enable swift testing without the need to write a single line of code. Early testing in the creation process, swiftly identifying elements for refinement, offers clear cost advantages. It's far more economical to adjust during the creation phase than after the interface has been fully developed.

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Design system

A design system provides a single source of components, models, and styles, all visually consistent and part of the same ecosystem. It is used to bring together all the graphic elements in their simplest forms (buttons, typographic hierarchy, colors, etc.) accompanied by their state variants and their instructions for use. Organized and composed according to the method ofA design system offers a unified repository of components, patterns, and styles, all harmoniously integrated within the same ecosystem. It serves as a comprehensive resource bringing together fundamental graphic elements in their most elemental forms (such as buttons, typographic hierarchy, and colors), along with their state variations and usage guidelines. Structured and crafted following the principles of Atomic design, the design system serves as invaluable documentation for the entire team, empowering them with speed and autonomy in production.

Why choose Toumoro

Great knowledge of UX and UI design

Extensive and adapted design expertise

By choosing Toumoro, you are guaranteed to have access to the services of a team of experts who know UX and UI design very well.

OUR SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

Projects we are proud of

We have carried out various design works for numerous sites, portals and applications. For example, Toumoro supports the Olympus NDT/Evident production teams with UX services as part of Design Ops.

OUR DESIGN OPS APPROACH

Design at the center of development

Our Design Ops approach allows for the orchestration and optimization of all stakeholders, processes, and design in order to break silos and amplify the value and impact of our work at scale.

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Our other areas of expertise

Web applications and software

AWS cloud computing

Internet of Things (IoT)