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.
As UX professionals, we design products and experiences that are intuitive, easy to use.What happens when a product is released that isn't...
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A recent trip abroad got me thinking a lot about money, partially how much I was spending, but mostly about the usability of the pieces of paper...
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When it comes to repeatedly creating exceptional user experiences, there are few tools in the UX practitioner's toolbox as critical as usability...
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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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If you lived in a rural community at the beginning of the 20th century you probably didn't travel very much and many of the things you needed...
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We often travel for the work that we do here at Akendi, so hotel and travel arrangements are nothing new to us. It becomes routine after a while...
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The benefits of following a process are known far and wide by those with one. In UX specifically, a UX process can help align departments and...
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There is a growing sentiment that Storytelling is an aspect of User Experience, and that it's something we need to take notice of and somehow...
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Designing for women is a topic that many people have addressed and was recently brought to my mind when shopping for various sporting goods. I...
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A little while ago I saw the movie Her, a sci-fi, dramatic comedy about a lonely writer named Theodore who develops an unlikely relationship with...
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A common requirement that I see when reviewing user requirements documents is that the system should be simple. First, stating that the system...
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In personality psychology, we talk about traits and states. Traits are said to be stable characteristics across situations, like being...
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Yup, that's right those murderous robots of cinematic lore. The terminator movies teach us some valuable lessons about technology that we'd be...
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This year was proclaimed to be the year of wearable technology so I decided to give one of the more successful products a try to evaluate the...
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As we know, successful product innovation is something that all product managers strive for. There are plenty of resources out there that provide...
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