Akendi News
Jan 26-29, 2012 - Carleton School of Information Technology hosted the IGDA Global Game Jam. Akendi is proud sponsor of the Ottawa event this year.
Global Game Jam is an international event, held at 53 sites in 2009, 138 sites in 2010, and 169 sites and 44 countries in 2011 (with more than 1500 games made). In a Game Jam, artists, programmers, and designers come together to make video games. Each participant works in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a weekend.
Nov 2, 2011 - Akendi's Cindy Beggs will talk about User Experience and Your Library at the November 2nd event of the Special Libraries Association Toronto chapter. Learn about how you can make improvements to your information centre’s services, web or mobile offerings by applying a user centred approach and see how your library skills can be applied outside of special libraries. Read more about this SLA event
August 25, 2011 - Akendi is a very proud sponsor of SLA Toronto Chapter for 2011.
April 19, 2011 - Akendi's Dominira Saul talked about Mobile and Social UX strategies for the Client and Citizen at the monthly CapCHI meeting in Ottawa, Canada.
Governments and enterprises are delivering more and more services through non-tranditional channels such as Mobile Devices and Social Networks. How will these new channels of service delivery and their accompanying technology changes affect the user experience? What should the user experience approach be? What methodological processes should be used?
Jan 28-30, 2011 - Akendi's Dominira Saul was on the judging panel for the 3rd annual Global Game Jam hosted by the Carleton School of Information Technology in Ottawa. There were 44 participants making 12 games (11 digital and one board game).
Jury Choices:
- Thrive (globalgamejam.org/2011/thrive)
Best Gameplay and Best Graphics - Flip Future (globalgamejam.org/2011/flip-future)
Best Story/Concept. - Jammers' Choice: Eats, Shoots & Leaves (globalgamejam.org/2011/eats-shoots-leaves)
Dec 15, 2010 - A talk by Tedde van Gelderen at the Toronto Chapter of the ACM's special interest group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Tedde’s talk was on Experience Thinking. Experience Thinking is an approach based on the notion that an experience in itself is of business and user value, not just the services and products that the business offers. He will cover why Experiences become more and more pervasive, how companies use this thinking in their innovations and what skills are essential for Experience Thinking initiatives. Read more about ToRCHI
Nov 27, 2010 - Akendi's Tedde van Gelderen presented at UXCamp Ottawa a keynote presentation on Experience Thinking.
Nov 1, 2010 - An interview with Dominira Saul on Designing for the upcoming World of Mobile Apps, episode 32 of the Customer Experience Show. Download it here.
Oct 25, 2010 - Interview with recent Carlton U cognitive science co-op student Lindsey Fraser about her work at Akendi.
Sept 18, 2010 - Director of User Experience, Dominira Saul, will be speaking at the Content Strategy Meet Up on Sept. 27th in Ottawa. Watch Dom introduce his talk in this short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it8g25Yi-vs
Sept 11, 2010 - An interview with Akendi's Tedde van Gelderen on the Customer Experience Show, discussing how to design for the customer. You can download the interview here.
July 14, 2010 - And Dominira keeps going, this time attend his talk on 'Design Thinking in Social Media' at the Social Media Breakfast in Ottawa. You can find more details and register here.
June 30, 2010 - Akendi's Dominira Saul gives a talk about 'Service Design - unifying the experience', at the UX Montreal - UXMTL monthly event. You can see his presentation here.
April 29, 2010 - Red Canary has a Shoptalk with leaders in UX including Tedde van Gelderen. Favourite user experiences, innovations, science and art – see what UX design leaders have to say about these and the great debate over complex versus simple home pages.
January 19, 2010 - Carleton University School of Information Technology organises Carleton Game Day on January 30, 2010. Akendi's Dominira Saul will give a talk on The changing face of the game: How game design is at the leading edge of Human Computer Interaction.
January 2, 2010 - Read the blog on how SaaS and Web 2.0 tools help SMBs to compete with heavyweights by Dominira Saul.
December 10, 2009 - An OCRI Zone5 event, Web Usability for Business Results by Dominira Saul from Akendi. In his talk, Dominira will outline what we should all know about web usability; the right questions to ask; and what steps you should take to ensure a better user and brand experience. Read more
November 25, 2009 - Akendi's Peter Horvath co-hosts Ignite! Toronto 2 in the Drake hotel in Toronto, Canada.
September 23, 2009 - Join us for World Usability Day 2009 in Ottawa and Toronto. The global theme for this year is how our products and services impact our world. Let World Usability Day 2009 be your impetus to create greater awareness for designs, products and services that improve the sustainability of our world.
June 5, 2009 - Ad Missions: Soothed by my gecko. Brand strategist Andris Pone is a member of the National Post's Ad Missions panel. Read here to see what Andris says about the latest Telus ad.
May 22, 2009 - Brand strategist Andris Pone is a member of the National Post's Ad Missions panel. Every second week until August, the panel will be presented with a new advertisement to critique.
Read here to learn what Andris thinks about Doritos' new, viewer-created video spot - the winner of a Doritos contest to name a new flavour for the brand.
February 18, 2009 - Akendi is quoted in Globe & Mail news article on how small businesses set themselves apart: One way to make your business stand out is through product differentiation. But there's a fine line between exciting customers with fresh new merchandise and confusing them - and increasing your costs - by going overboard. Read the article
January 28, 2009 - Akendi's Tedde van Gelderen gives talk at Ryerson University on the Importance of Experience Design. For more details visit: Digital Media Experience Design Workshop.
November 24, 2008 - Control microsystems asks for interaction design assistance in their development of a new GUI for pump control software.
October 10, 2008 - Akendi creates the visual design for a corporate intranet of an Ontario, Canada provincial agency.
September 17, 2008 - Rogers Wireless asked Akendi for a usability review of a next generation phone platform. rogers.com.
September 3, 2008 - Akendi was proud to be a Silver sponser of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundations' Galaxy of Stars event in Toronto, celebrating their major achievement of raising 50 million dollars for breast cancer research.
August 30, 2008 - Grey Canada asked Akendi to create the information architecture for several corporate websites. grey.com
July 15, 2008 - Akendi conducts usability review of desktop GUI application and Rich Internet Application for Radialpoint (formerly Casero) radialpoint.com
June 8, 2008 - Akendi's Tedde van Gelderen discusses Rich Internet Applications RIA on CBC.ca
May 24, 2008 - Akendi conducted a Usability Review of one of Canwest Digital Media online properties.
March 12, 2008 - airKrete Canada asked Akendi to redesign their corporate website with persona development, usage scenario research, brand identity and information architecture to deliver an end to end web experience for home owners who look for
'green' insulation. www.airkretecanada.com
December 4, 2007 - Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto engaged Akendi to assist in Design Research for the Daily Bread Food Bank website. www.dailybread.ca
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