
Explore cognitive biases and heuristics in a Bob persona vacation journey, including digital amnesia and the IKEA effect, and learn to test and place biases to boost engagement.
Explore heuristics and cognitive biases as mental shortcuts the brain uses to save energy in decision making, and how they appear in the customer purchase journey.
An ad triggers Bob to consider a vacation by highlighting hyperbolic discounting, the bandwagon effect, and free drinks and meals, illustrating how short-term pleasures steer the customer journey.
Explore how digital amnesia, fluency, and familiarity influence the customer journey in choosing options and defaults. Notice how an uncluttered website layout and habitual airline choice reinforce these biases.
Bob's trip research illustrates cognitive biases in consumer choices, highlighting scarcity, anchoring, and decoy effects as he selects a breakfast-included hotel room.
Explore cognitive biases in the customer journey through a resort scenario, highlighting the halo effect, duration neglect, and the endowment effect as guests form impressions, pace experiences, and value items.
Learn to design unusual experiences and thoughtful endings that avoid bill shock while shaping customer memories around the peak-end rule.
Are you curious about how you could fall victim to marketing ploys due to your brain's mental heuristics? Are you a marketer looking not to trick your customers but to improve their experience? In this course, we will discuss both the tricky biases that marketers use to nudge up sales but also some of the other biases companies can use to help customers enjoy their experiences more. This is, after all, a customer's world now. As for the nuts and bolts of this class, read on. I will guide you through what heuristics/cognitive biases are and why your brain uses them. I have also created a story about a man named Bob who plans for, purchases, and eventually goes on a beach vacation. During all stages of this journey, you will hear his story, then I'll have you guess which biases he encountered during each phase, and finally, we will define the biases and discuss a few more examples of each. I hope you find this to be a fun and interactive way to learn about biases during the shopping journey. Plus, there are lots of beautiful pictures of beaches since I created this course in deep winter as the cold penetrated my bones.