UX BLOG

Back

General

Curious facts and insights about user and customer experience from the team at Akendi. From UX principles to thought-leadership around creating intentional experiences, our collection of General UX blogs covers everything from recent events to musings and seasoned advice.

Are the Design Systems Just Another Emperor’s Wardrobe?

By Dan Iaboni

07.24.2024

Organizations often desire a UX design system but avoid taking the necessary steps to create the right one. A well-executed design system...

Design

Is UX Research Inherently Uncreative?

By Jessika Tremblay

07.02.2024

No. Creativity is involved in almost everything humans do. Now that we have the answer out of the way let’s discuss it. A design colleague of...

Design

Aiming for Net Zero: Key Insights for Companies Seeking to Make an Impact

By Sue Poll

07.02.2024

As I cycled to a workshop on Aiming for Net Zero, I had no idea how my choice of transport was affecting our company’s future. The workshop was...

General

From Data to Design: 6 Key Insights from the World’s Largest QuantUX Conference

By Jonathan Pusic

06.20.2024

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the 2024 QuantUX conference, where practitioners, researchers, and leading thinkers in UX came...

General

Unlocking Understanding: Strategies for Bridging Communication Gaps

By Lotte van Gelderen

05.02.2024

In a utopia, everyone gets along with everyone. People can say what is on their minds, and the people around you understand what you mean 100% of...

General

How I Became a Children’s Story Author, Sort of

By Dan Iaboni

01.03.2024

Prologue As a User Experience (UX) Designer, I have always found it challenging to explain my profession to others. More recently, I faced...

Design

What to Measure Mathematically in UX?

By Scott Plewes

With the growing popularity of machine learning and AI, it seems the number of mathematical techniques available to understand people's...

Design

Need You Look at a Product Design to Evaluate It?

By Scott Plewes

Understandably, anyone from a technical architect to the CEO might want to look at a product or "play with it" to evaluate it. However, it...

General

Research Will Sometimes Tell You It’s a Just a Bad Idea

By Scott Plewes

Organizations often research to fill in key data around what they feel is sure to be a winning idea. Usually, that's what happens. However...

General

Journeys and Personas Aren’t Forever

By Scott Plewes

Good journeys and personas are research data-based. And that data changes because people and systems change. Context changes. New roles emerge in...

General

Akendi US: Starting our NYC office!

By Dan Iaboni

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...

General

Fail Fast Better in UX

By Scott Plewes

The Fail Fast approach in UX design can work, but only if you learn. Failing by itself is no guarantee of that. By definition, it's just the...

General

Think Twice Before Reaching for that UX Template

By Scott Plewes

UX templates can be super useful. They are time savers and can give people insights into what they are templating (a persona, journey...

Design

Digital Transformation is Never Only Digital

By Scott Plewes

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

Design

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...

Design

Older Posts

Sign up for our UX Blog

Don't miss an article! We'll notify you of each new post.

Visit The UX Blog

How can we help you?

let’s chat