Designing for Most People, Most of the Time
By Tedde van Gelderen
09.25.2022
This post is somewhat different from my other posts. It’s a conversation I’ve had with design teams quite a few times over the years, this last...
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Continually looking for ways to improve the experiences of others, Tedde has dedicated his professional life to experience design, research and strategy. He derives energy, motivation, and purpose from improving the experiences of others and believes that every organization — and every industry — can benefit from Experience Thinking.
By Tedde van Gelderen
09.25.2022
This post is somewhat different from my other posts. It’s a conversation I’ve had with design teams quite a few times over the years, this last...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
06.02.2020
As a user researcher, part of the work is communicating the results of our research. And to get to that moment, we engage with users and...
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08.04.2018
In 2017, I finished writing a book on what teams need to know to create truly connected experiences. The customer, user, citizen, client, guest...
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07.05.2017
Just this morning I was reminded of something I’d used in past talks and I wanted to revisit the concept. The conversation I had was around our...
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04.27.2017
Ok, we’re all humans. It is a label that encompasses us all. But in experience research and design we rarely, if ever, create for or try to...
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12.08.2016
Empathy is a popular term in user experience design nowadays. Many sources recommend that designers need to first empathize with users to create...
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09.29.2016
That’s the amount of time I had for writing this blog post. It meant I had to be creative, focused and not be distracted for this period if I had...
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09.08.2016
Today I came back from a lunch where I talked with a potential client about their product. This was a first conversation so most of the time was...
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08.04.2016
I’m going to talk about our clients; the clients who pay for our work, for whom we love to go out of our way to make happy. I’d like to talk about...
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06.03.2016
Last week at the dinner table I had a conversation that pushed my thinking. My oldest child is going to university and her friend is in her first...
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02.23.2016
Working in UX has taught me one thing: Never underestimate a user’s will to take shortcuts, then question why something doesn’t work. What Makes...
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12.15.2015
Predicting how many teams figure out their product requirements has been following a distinct pattern over the years for me. Many times when I...
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10.08.2015
In my UX consulting life I go through many, sometimes brief, cycles of meeting a potential new client, talk about what their pain points are, what...
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04.17.2015
At some point, in your early career as a UX designer, it happens: you are working on a project with multiple, even many stakeholders that each put...
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01.08.2015
I’m sure we have all encountered new types of interactions in public and office spaces that made us react with a ‘that is odd’, ‘I don’t know...
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Akendi is a human experience design firm, leveraging equal parts experience research and creative design excellence. We provide strategic insights and analysis about customer and user behaviour and combine this knowledge with inspired design. The results enable organizations to improve effectiveness, engage users and provide remarkable customer experiences to their audiences.