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Creating a well-designed interaction does more than improve usability – it can create delight. Our collection of Interaction Design blogs takes you from interaction fundamentals to examples of good and bad designs and what you can learn from them.

Digital Transformation is Never Only Digital

By Scott Plewes

06.05.2023

Digital products have support, work with other products or services, and generally fit into some larger ecosystem of usage. When you figure...

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You can only Design ½ of what goes into an Experience

By Scott Plewes

Understandably, we talk about being user experience designers. However, in the end, we don't design an experience. That's something the user has...

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Falling Through the Cracks: Continuity of User Experiences

By Scott Plewes

One of the hardest things about service design is creating continuity in the user experience. That continuity, in part, comes from organizations...

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Good Enough can be Good Enough and Even Great: Design for a Target, not Perfection

By Scott Plewes

You'll never achieve a perfect design. There's no such thing. You can, however, get-achieve-reach a design that meets many user needs and...

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Persuading your Audience to Engage

By Liz Huh

When you come across a well-designed website or application, can you identify the reasons why it spoke to you? Did the design successfully...

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Improve Post-Pandemic UX Workspace Design with Experience Thinking

By Jessika Tremblay

Q: What does your office design say about your company culture in 2022? A: The foundation of Experience Thinking is understanding human...

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Designing for Most People, Most of the Time

By Tedde van Gelderen

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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Fact & Fiction: Tell a Story with Research Data

By Cassandra Wiesner

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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Google realizes the error of its ways

By Dan Iaboni

In a recent tweet (see below), Jeff Verkoeyen, a software designer at Google, announced that his team will no longer support the iOS's Material...

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UX teams and software vendors in healthcare settings – a workshop

By Philip Watson

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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A New UX Training Community: Experience Thinkers

By Siobhan Kennedy

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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The Widening Digital Divide

By Philip Watson

Hello <<FIRST_NAME>>, We here at <<CORP_NAME>> hope you are keeping well and staying safe during these unprecedented times. We are writing...

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3 Real-Life Examples of Simple UX Design Solutions

By Michelle Brown

It's easy to call out bad design - there's a lot of it. But finding and appreciating examples of good design can feel challenging. We...

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A Revolutionary Insurance Experience: How do Lemonade and Sonnet Stack Up? – Part Two

By Michelle Brown

Some insurance companies are trying to rewrite the insurance experience, but how well do they deliver on their promises? In part one we...

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A Revolutionary Insurance Experience? – Part One

By Michelle Brown

The insurance experience. It's not something that gets people excited. Not much has changed in the last several years and many customers view the...

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