Combine user feedback, product analytics data for total awareness of customer journey
Understanding the user journey has never been more critical. Companies can no longer rely solely on traditional metrics to grasp what drives user behavior. Instead, a more holistic approach is needed — one that combines the power of user feedback (“what users say”) with user engagement data (“what users do”). By synthesizing these two perspectives, organizations can uncover the complete story behind their users’ actions, enabling companies to make more informed decisions and drive better outcomes.
A holistic user journey perspective
Historically, companies have relied on either qualitative or quantitative data to make decisions about product development, user experience and customer satisfaction. Qualitative data, such as customer feedback from app store reviews, support tickets and social media, provides valuable insights into what users are thinking and feeling. However, it often lacks the context of user behavior — what users actually do within your product or service.
On the other hand, quantitative data from behavioral analytics tools such as churn rates, feature usage and engagement metrics offers a clear view of user actions. Yet, without understanding the “why” behind these actions, companies risk making decisions based on incomplete information.
By integrating these two streams of data — what users say and what they do — organizations can gain a comprehensive understanding of the user journey, allowing them to answer critical questions and optimize their offerings effectively.
How AI-driven user insights uncover a story behind user actions
unitQ empowers organizations by leveraging AI to extract meaningful insights from vast amounts of user feedback — combining this with behavioral analytics signals to paint a complete picture of the user journey. By analyzing customer feedback from a wide range of user feedback sources alongside product analytics data, companies can answer crucial questions like:
What are my power users saying about our latest feature? Understanding the opinions and experiences of your most engaged users is vital for refining and promoting new features. By combining feedback with data on feature usage, companies can identify which aspects resonate most with power users and which need improvement.
What bugs do inactive users want fixed? Feedback from inactive users can provide crucial clues about what’s driving disengagement. By correlating this feedback with behavioral data, companies can prioritize fixes and enhancements that may re-engage these users, reducing churn and improving retention.
What differences exist in feedback between users who did and didn’t convert? Understanding why some users convert while others don’t is key to optimizing conversion rates. By analyzing feedback from both groups and comparing their behaviors, companies can identify barriers to conversion and opportunities to refine the user experience.
Case study: Integrating Amplitude with unitQ
An excellent example of this approach in action is unitQ’s integration with Amplitude, a leading product analytics platform. This integration allows companies to seamlessly combine user feedback insights from unitQ with Amplitude’s robust behavioral analytics. The result is a unified view of the user journey that provides actionable insights to drive product improvements, reduce churn and enhance user satisfaction.
unitQ’s flexible platform is designed to integrate with a variety of behavioral analytics tools, enabling organizations to leverage their existing data infrastructure and maximize the value of their user insights.
“Capturing user actions with Amplitude, in combination with user-feedback platform unitQ, empowers businesses to understand how their customers use their products as well as where there are points of friction across the user journey," says Amplitude Senior Product Manager Brandon Khoo. "This combination gives product, engineering and customer experience leaders bi-directional feedback so that they can build products informed by what users say and their actions, increasing both customer satisfaction and the effectiveness of product roadmaps."
Measurable outcomes
The integration of user feedback with behavioral analytics is not just a theoretical exercise; it has practical applications that can drive measurable outcomes. Companies can use this approach to:
Enhance product development by aligning features with user needs and preferences.
Improve customer support by proactively addressing issues before they lead to churn.
Optimize marketing strategies by tailoring messages and campaigns based on user behavior and feedback patterns.
About unitQ
unitQ revolutionizes how product builders, engineers, support leaders and team members understand feedback in real time to build superior products, fix bugs faster and resolve support issues at scale. With unitQ’s customer feedback platform, you can discover quality issues at the same time as your users; know what product launches, releases or evergreen features are causing the most bugs or support tickets; or drill into the root causes of these issues by source, platform, device, customer segment and more.
unitQ AI centralizes feedback from all feedback sources and automatically groups it into thousands of granular categories to help organizations discover what matters most to users — all in real time. Customer-centric companies like Spotify, Bumble, Pinterest, DailyPay and Zendeskrely on unitQ for actionable insights to drive growth, reduce churn and build brand loyalty.
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David Kravets is Senior Content Marketing Manager at unitQ.
