Innovation

New products and novel design approaches have the potential to revolutionize the market, but they also have the potential to be a complete flop. Our collection of Innovation blogs explores new technologies and breakthrough devices as well as strategies for organizations to innovate their products, methods and ideas.

Users are Terrible Designers. Usually

By Scott Plewes

In general, end users are terrible at UX design. For the same reason most of the world is bad at reading hieroglyphics. They are not trained in...

Design

Data Science Needs UX, Especially UX Research

By Scott Plewes

Any model in math is better if it is stronger on one or more of these factors: reliability, extensibility, stability. UX research can get at what...

Design

An Interview with ChatGPT on the Future of AI in UX

By Jonathan Pusic

When ChatGPT was introduced to the public it took just 5 days to amass over a million users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application...

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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...

Design

If You can Scope your UX Design Exactly you Probably are Doing it Wrong

By Scott Plewes

Organizations relying on UX Checklists run into trouble. On the surface they are doing a lot of things right; getting feedback from users, hiring...

Innovation

Invite Everyone to the Party: Integrating more Disciplines

By Scott Plewes

UX design and its techniques (think Journey Mapping, for example) is only one way to look at a system involving people. It is just as important...

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A Great UX Design Process Doesn’t Guarantee Great Results: Limits of Process

By Scott Plewes

Lean UX, Agile UX, Design Thinking, Service Design, JTBD, whatever your favourite design process, remember it's just a process. It's not a...

Innovation

Bringing Data to Life: Personas

By Scott Plewes

Personas are models. They are not real people. They are aggregations of data interpreted to help you make design decisions that will improve...

Innovation

Invite Math into Your UX Design Approach

By Scott Plewes

Quant UX is a real thing. Math simply does things that qualitative UX does not. And it is, and never should be, about choosing one over the...

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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...

Design

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...

Design

Using Ecosystem Diagrams For Insight and Understanding in Experience Design

By Scott Plewes

In order to redesign a product or service, you need to understand the system context in which it is being used and the opportunities for changing...

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Our UX Community: Experience Thinkers

By Siobhan Kennedy

To continue our Akendi UX course delivery, we're sharing an interview with Tedde van Gelderen, President and Founder of Akendi and Experience...

Design

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...

Design

Making the Urgent Case for User Research

By Dan Iaboni

A common ask from clients and students is for me to help them explain the reasons for conducting user research within their organization. While...

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