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The Human-First Strategist

5-minute reads to help marketers and product leaders cut through the noise so humans actually listen.

What is human experience strategy?

Human Experience Strategy (HXS) is an approach to communication and marketing that centers the felt experience of your customer—as a human being.

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HXS means making every decision with the goal of ensuring your customers feel cared for, respected, and absolutely safe at ever stage of their interaction with you... throughout the entire marketing, sales, product use, and retention experience.

In the avalanche of AI-driven marketing and information overwhelm, the brands that inspire loyalty and cut through the noise?

Those are the brands that affirm and respect their customers as human beings.

That's where Human Experience Strategy (HXS) comes in.

It's a proven mixture of the following:

  • UX theory
  • Behavioral psychology, and
  • Copywriting strategy

Add in a healthy dose of empathy, and that's the philosophy that we've been perfecting over the 15 years we've spent working with content, marketing, SEO, and product teams.

HXS recognizes that your customers aren’t machines.

If they feel manipulated, they leave. If they’re confused, they hesitate.

And if they don’t feel a sense of trust and safety, they won’t move forward with your business.

That means every step of your customer's journey needs to feel consistent across all encounters with your team—from the initial website visit directly from organic search to handing over their credit card number.

It means making sure that the humans who encounter your brand feel safe and connected.

It means never losing sight of the honest human needs behind every interaction.

Humans need to understand what's happening to them. They need meaning. They need to know why. They need to connect with other humans.

And a good touch of emotional resonance never hurt either.

In short?

Human experience strategy means making every decision with the goal of ensuring your customers feel cared for, respected, and absolutely safe at every stage of their interaction with you... throughout the entire marketing, sales, product use, and retention experience.