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PH1 Research are leaders in customer experience innovation and delivering road maps for the most effective use of emerging technologies, like AI.

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Latest insights

PH1 Research are leaders in customer experience innovation and delivering road maps for the most effective use of emerging technologies, like AI.

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BLOG

Latest insights

PH1 Research are leaders in customer experience innovation and delivering road maps for the most effective use of emerging technologies, like AI.

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Aug 13, 2026

Product Management & User Research Partner for Hire with the Experience You Need

Overwhelmed product and marketing teams hire PH1 as a senior product and user research partner — 70+ engagements across 20+ industries.

digital-transformation

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Jul 9, 2026

Search: The Digital Transformation Project Quietly Hurting Your Customers

Broken site and enterprise search quietly erodes perception, acquisition, retention, and revenue. See why it's the transformation fix to prioritize now.

digital-transformation

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May 23, 2026

AI Will Destroy University Website Traffic. There's Only One Path Forward.

Google's AI is replacing your website in the applicant journey. Here's how university marketing teams should respond before it's too late.

AI Strategy

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May 16, 2026

Guide to Accelerating AI Adoption & Business Outcomes

95% of enterprise AI pilots produce no measurable return. The cause is orchestration, context architecture and organisational design, not the model. A guide for leaders.

cx

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Apr 23, 2026

How to Build the Ideal CX Master Plan for the AI Era

CX gave institutions the ability to measure experience. AI gives them the ability to act on it. Here's how to build a CX master plan that does both.

AI Strategy

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Apr 23, 2026

How to Modernize the University Applicant Experience for the AI Era

AI is restructuring how prospective students discover and evaluate institutions. Here is what that means for your enrollment strategy — and your website.

AI Strategy

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Apr 21, 2026

How to Close the Gap Between AI Adoption and Monetization

It has never been easier to build an AI product. It has never been harder to monetize one. Here's how to close the gap — with evidence, not guesswork.

Insights

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Apr 20, 2026

Why Digital Transformation Projects Fail in the Era of AI (& how to Avoid Them)

Digital transformation was already hard, and AI made it harder. The five failure patterns we see in transformation programmes, and how to avoid each one.

AI Strategy

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Apr 17, 2026

Customer Journey Mapping Is the Secret to Unlocking AI Value in Your Organization

You're being asked to ship AI faster than any previous initiative. Customer journey mapping is what protects the decision — and the roadmap — from the rush.

Tips

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Mar 17, 2026

12 AI Podcasts Every Product Team Should Be Listening To Right Now

Twelve AI podcasts, ranked and reviewed, that help product teams understand customer needs, sharpen go-to-market strategy and drive adoption.

AI Strategy

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Feb 26, 2026

Strategy for Measuring & Improving AI Products

Plug a product into an LLM and you stop shipping predictable software. How to measure AI products when model upgrades look like progress and outcomes stay flat.

News

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Feb 24, 2026

From Design of AI to Product Impact: Why the Future of AI Strategy Is About Measurable Value

PH1 evolved from Design of AI to Product Impact to focus on measuring and scaling AI value. Why measurable impact now defines AI strategy.

AI Strategy

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Feb 10, 2026

CX Transformation in the AI Era: How Public Transit Wins Riders

AI is reshaping transit choice. Win riders with clear, trusted digital journeys, better data, and safe AI-powered guidance.

Insights

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Feb 1, 2026

NAFTA moved factories. AI will remove Canada’s competitiveness.

NAFTA moved factories. AI could export Canada's know-how as businesses default to US platforms, costing leverage and talent. The case for Canadian AI alternatives.

AI Strategy

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Jan 3, 2026

The Design of AI in 2026: Strategy, Power Shifts, and the Cost of Pretending You Understand AI

AI is no longer a differentiator but infrastructure. By 2026 the gap is between organisations that restructured how they work and those still pretending they use AI.

AI Strategy

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Jan 2, 2026

AI Strategy for Higher Education Leaders: Protect Recruitment, Modernize Student Services, and Build an AI-Ready Student Experience

AI is reshaping how students discover universities. How higher-ed leaders can protect recruitment, modernise student services and build an AI-ready student experience.

AI Strategy

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Dec 18, 2025

20 Brutal Reasons Your AI Product Will Fail

Hard truths learned from industry leaders, enterprise buyers, and dozens of AI founders who already made the mistakes you're about to make.

AI Strategy

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Dec 12, 2025

Design of AI: One of the World’s Leading AI Strategy Podcasts for Product, Design, and Research Leaders

AI embedded itself into roadmaps and executive mandates before most organisations could reason about it. Why the Design of AI podcast began in 2023 and what it covers.

Product Resources

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Dec 3, 2025

Innovation Sprints in the Age of AI

Innovation sprints help organizations de-risk AI, explore new value, and turn complex service challenges into clear, evidence-based decisions.

Product Resources

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Dec 2, 2025

Service Design in the Age of AI: How to Build Holistic CX and Intelligent Automation

Service design aligns AI, automation and customer experience into one coherent system, so organisations scale experiences rather than silos.

Product Resources

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Nov 24, 2025

Journey Mapping That Actually Works: How Teams Use It to Drive ROI, Productivity, and AI-Ready Services

Why journey mapping remains one of the highest-return investments for innovation, productivity and AI-ready services, and how teams use it to drive results.

Insights

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Nov 2, 2025

Fandom, Creators, and Personalization in the Age of AI

How fandom, creators, and AI-driven personalization reshape engagement, monetization, and community—and how brands can build durable advantage.

Tips

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Oct 12, 2025

Customer Experience in the Age of AI

How AI is transforming customer experience from reactive journeys to predictive, personalized systems—and why CX must become core infrastructure, not a function.

AI Strategy

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Sep 18, 2024

Guide to designing a GenAI product: From vision to content strategy

GenAI shifts designers from deterministic to probabilistic output, with no best practices yet. A guide to designing a GenAI product, from vision to content strategy.

Product Resources

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Jan 24, 2023

From Data to Decisions: How AI Turns Insights into Action

How AI turns user research into action: unearthing insights that build loyalty, give engineering teams empathy for users, and turn data into decisions.

Product Resources

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Sep 4, 2022

The end of UX? This is the start of the service design of AI

GenAI lets anyone design interfaces from prompts. Why this looks less like the end of UX and more like the start of the service design of AI.

Product Resources

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Jun 27, 2022

Guide to researching new products & testing concepts

Research platforms make data collection easy, and the field has grown dependent on tools over expertise. A guide to researching new products and testing concepts.

Product Resources

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May 22, 2022

A guide to overcoming uncertainty impacting your product or service

The 2020s have made planning feel like riding a rollercoaster blindfolded. A guide to making product and service decisions when the direction keeps changing.

Our Leadership

PH1 Research was founded in 2012 and leveraged human-centred design, rapid prototyping, service design, design thinking, strategic foresight, journey mapping, and service blueprinting with leading orgs. We specialize across the software, ecommerce, SaaS, analytics, education, financial services, higher education, entertainment, sports, and transportation sectors.

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