Current Tag: Product Design
Have It Your Way: Marketing to Individuals, Not Groups
The demographics in the United States are changing rapidly, due to a combination of declining birth rates and increasing immigration. The minority and multiracial populations are growing, especially among the young. This shift has produced greater interest in and mixing of cultures, creating fusions from kimchi tacos to hip-hop line dancing. The lines between groups…
Tags: Behavioral Science, Consumer Behavior, Consumer Segmentation, Consumer Segments, Eye Tracking, Global Retailing, Product Design, Retail, Shopper Research, Trends
Read MoreAppealing to Consumer Nostalgia: Bringing Back Beloved Brands
Starting a new brand is risky. You have to convince consumers to pay for something they’ve never tried or even heard of before. If you don’t get the marketing and packaging right, shoppers won’t buy it, and if you don’t get the product right, shoppers won’t buy it more than once. But what if you started…
Tags: Consumer Behavior, Decision Making, Emotional Response, Experiencing Self, Eye Tracking, Global Retailing, Mass Merchants, Package Design, Product Design, Retail, Shopper Research, Trends
Read MoreBeyond Taste and Smell, Part 3: 3 Ways that Touch Changes Perception of Flavor and Value
Note: This is part three of a three-part series on how the senses not directly linked to taste—sight, hearing, touch—affect perception of flavor. See parts one and two here. In our last two posts, we looked at surprising research by Dr. Charles Spence of Oxford’s Crossmodal Research Lab that shows how sight and hearing affect…
Tags: Consumer Behavior, Decision Making, Emotional Response, Eye Tracking, Global Retailing, Grocery, Product Design, Retail, Shopper Research, Trends
Read MoreWhat Makes Consumers Try New Products?
People can be creatures of habit. We find routines comforting, and we will often settle into a pattern of eating the same breakfast, watching the same shows, and buying the same products over and over. But, perhaps paradoxically, people are also always looking for novelty. Beyond novelty, what makes consumers try new products is driven…
Tags: Consumer Behavior, Decision Making, Eye Tracking, Mass Merchants, Package Design, Product Design, Retail, Shopper Research, Trends
Read MoreThe Buying Process: Subconscious Triggers to Conscious Action
Most people like to think that they make logical buying decisions based on price, trust in a brand, recommendations from a friend, etc. These can all be factors, of course, but consumer research shows that shoppers’ decisions start from a much deeper place—the subconscious level. Most information actually never reaches the conscious mind. Estimates vary,…
Tags: Behavioral Economics, Consumer Behavior, Eye Tracking, Product Design, Shelf Layout
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