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A look at how sharing-economy giants, Uber and Airbnb, differ in their approach to garnering trust through messaging and visual design. We're...
Read moreCreating 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.
A look at how sharing-economy giants, Uber and Airbnb, differ in their approach to garnering trust through messaging and visual design. We're...
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Have you ever faced this signage dilemma? Amazing, isn't it? I know which way to turn for everyone else's room but my own.* And yet...
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With Google unleashing its redesigned logo this month, we thought we'd gather up some feedback from around the office. Here are some of our...
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New York City sees over 50 million visitors annually, with numbers rising each year. This is a huge number and an important one to consider when...
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I recently participated in an open design challenge from NASA to create an application for a wearable device. The challenge called specifically...
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In a couple of weeks Akendi, along with our partners, will be hosting IoT613, in Ottawa. IoT613 will be a gathering of those interested in...
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If technology aims to make our lives easier, then why am I trapped outside of a bathroom by a fancy electronic door lock, unable to enter the...
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When creating forms, interaction designers are often faced with having to select a User Interface (UI) element that dictates the interaction of...
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At the hospital where Dr. Henri J. Breault worked in Windsor, Canada, a parent rushing in with a poisoned child was a daily occurrence. Medical...
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Smart watches have become an increasingly popular item in consumer electronics over the past few years, exploding on to the scene back in 2012...
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Interaction design can be a delicate balancing act between meeting the needs of the user and wrestling with the limitations of the technology...
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Exhausted from your exploration of the WestJet flight booking system, you, André Aumond, are looking for smoother sailing and greener pastures...
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Coming from a development background, from an old school development house, I have encountered a lot of varying responses to UX Design from...
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I had the questionable joy this year of trying out, not one, not two, but three tax return applications online to file my Canadian taxes. This is...
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Grids & Guides: A Notebook for Visual Thinkers “144 pages of blank graph paper, plus charts, infographics, tables, and other scientific...
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