Akendi US: Starting the NYC office
By Dan Iaboni
09.04.2023
This year, we opened Akendi’s latest office in New York City. Here is an interview with Dan Iaboni, Akendi’s Chief Experience Officer, who shares...
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You had UX talent… why did UX fail at your organization?
By Scott Plewes
07.10.2023
You don’t teach someone multivariate calculus before they learn to add. There’s no point in using sophisticated UX tools and techniques in...
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Fact & Fiction: Tell a Story with Research Data
By Cassandra Wiesner
12.03.2021
Have you ever been in a situation where you have a 100 slide deck to present in 60 minutes? Listen, we have all been there at some point, but I...
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UX teams and software vendors in healthcare settings – a workshop
By Philip Watson
06.01.2021
Last month we at Akendi got the opportunity to speak to UX colleagues working in life science settings. At the 2021 UXLS conference, organised by...
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On Compassion and Conway’s Law
By Philip Watson
03.17.2021
Have you ever sat in a team meeting of a large website restructuring project and wondered “What are we all doing here?” If so, consider the...
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A New UX Training Community: Experience Thinkers
By Siobhan Kennedy
02.10.2021
To kick off our training in 2021, we’re sharing an interview with Tedde van Gelderen, President and Founder of Akendi and Experience Thinkers...
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Hiring the Right UX Professional
By Dan Iaboni
11.03.2020
Hiring is always exciting but comes with a sense of trepidation. Being able to grow your team and bring in new perspectives and new skills can be...
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Akendi: A Trailblazing UX Agency Training the Practitioners of Now
By Roberta Schultz
03.28.2019
Akendi's President Tedde van Gelderen talked with Danielle Heifa from Strive, UXR Conference, to share how his team is training product people...
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How My Internship Helped Me Transition Into a Junior UX Design Role
By Anna Ballares
01.29.2019
Looking back in retrospect, I decided to contemplate what I accomplished last year that led me to where I am today. I’ve recently had the...
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Highly Successful UX: Pi shaped minds
By Tedde van Gelderen
09.12.2013
In my years of hiring and coaching UX talent, I've seen a clear characteristic of the more successful, i.e. higher impact, people that made a...
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