CX Strategic Knowledge · CX Methods
Measuring Quality, Not Just Activity
Measure whether interactions worked, not how many happened. Quality signals resist manipulation.
Activity counts can be inflated; quality signals are harder to fake. A dating app should not measure messages sent, but conversations that get replies, continue past the first response, and do not end in blocks. Quality metrics indicate mutual value — and never design features that artificially inflate them.
Messages sent is a volume metric. It rises when the product works and it rises when the product spams. A refined measure asks whether the interaction succeeded: did the conversation receive a reply, continue beyond the first response, and avoid ending in a block within 48 hours?
Quality signals like these indicate mutual interest and good matching, and they are much harder to manipulate. One warning stands: never design features whose purpose is to artificially inflate the metric. The moment you do, the metric stops measuring anything.
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