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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.

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

When User Research Becomes a Barrier to Success

By Dan Iaboni

User research plays a crucial role in the experience design process, providing valuable insights into users' needs, preferences, and...

Innovation

What is Your AI’s EQ?

By Scott Plewes

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can walk a strange line between people and technology. On the one hand, it is "just computing." On the other...

Build

You had UX talent – why did UX fail at your organization?

By Scott Plewes

You don't teach someone multivariate calculus before they learn to add. There's no point in using sophisticated UX tools and techniques in...

Innovation

Making Music with HAL

By Dan Iaboni

During a recent meetup focused on the application of ChatGPT, a startup presented their new AI-assisted music generation tool. The purpose of...

Design

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...

Build

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...

Build

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...

Build

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

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