Ben Davis

About Ben Davis

Insights Editor

Ben Davis is Insights Editor at Econsultancy. He edits Econsultancy articles and contributes to our reports and events. Ben is interested in emerging technology, UX and brand. He lives in Manchester, England.

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AI tools can distract from CX fundamentals: Commercetools CSO Kelly Goetsch

Many ecommerce companies “incorporate AI tools and functionalities that do not necessarily enhance the customer experience” when they could be prioritising the “fundamentals” of UX, according to Kelly Goetsch, Chief Strategy Officer at Commercetools, a cloud-based headless commerce platform. We caught up with Goetsch to ask him about multichannel retail, his dream client, more ecommerce […]

‘Your brand is your product and your product is your brand’: Kallan & Co’s Luca Picardi on digital design

Luca Picardi is Head of Brand Strategy at Kallan & Co., a design studio with a virtual working model (and offices in Helsinki, Melbourne and Christchurch). He has been working across brands and digital products for the last decade. Given Picardi’s schooling at Central Saint Martins and current teaching work at BAU school of design […]

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Econsultancy’s digital and marketing trends for 2024

We’ve published a list of digital and marketing trends every January at Econsultancy for well over a decade, and have been training marketers for the better part of 20 years. Looking back at some of our annual predictions since 2010, three types of trend stand out: Trends that feel nostalgic, ideas that quickly became amusing […]

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Retailers can learn from fast UX of Shein and Temu, says Scayle’s Craig Smith

Competing with dominant new entrants is one of the challenges in online retail highlighted by Scayle’s Craig Smith, who says the “fast user experience” and “ability to match supply with customer demand” demonstrated by Shein and Temu show the “direction online shopping is moving”. Smith describes himself as “from a retail family”, with his father […]