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.

How Combining UX With Interior Design Creates Smart Work Spaces

By Maya Levin

What comes to mind when you hear or see the term “UX" (User Experience)?How about “Who is a user and what experience are we talking...

Innovation

Pokémon Go: Fun but Not Augmented Reality

By Dan Iaboni

If you have read any of the news in the last couple days or are a millennial, then you've probably heard by now about the release of the Pokémon...

Design

Why Journey Mapping is Critical, And Where To Start

By Dan Iaboni

I'm no cartophile, but I love maps.Part of my graduate studies was spent exploring the history of maps, how they are created and how they are...

Design

Journey Mapping My Commute to Work

By Amanda Billark

An Authentically Torontonian Example of Journey Mapping Last week, I participated in 'Experience Mapping', a course offered in Akendi's UX...

Innovation

The Ludicrously Missed Opportunities

By Tedde van Gelderen

Working in UX has taught me one thing: Never underestimate a user's will to take shortcuts, then question why something doesn't work.Ã‚Â What...

Design

Akendi’s Seven Design Principles

By Fatima Kanji

At Akendi, we use design principles when designing, conducting heuristic reviews or analyzing the results of a usability test. These design...

Design

Experience Thinking Maturity: 5 Strategies to De-risk Experiences

By Tedde van Gelderen

Predicting how many product teams figure out their requirements has been following a distinct pattern over the years for me. Many times when I...

Innovation

Who Are You and What is Your Story?

By Jessica Murray

Every website should tell a story in some form or another.Ã‚Â ItsÃ‚Â design should reflect who you are and what you want to tell your users. Your...

Design

The UX of Star Wars

By Dominira Saul

In the lead-up to the new Star Wars movie, Star Wars the Force Awakens, I have been re-watching the existing Star Wars movies. Partly to acquaint...

General

Strategy – Can a product have a vision and mission?

By Cindy Beggs

If you look around at product design processes, you find out that there are almost as many as there are products.Ã‚Â While some differ simply in...

Innovation

Designing UX for emerging technologies

By Seneca Brandi

I recently participated in an open design challenge from NASA to create an application for a wearable device. The challenge called specifically...

Build

Ethnography, Journey Mapping and IoT

By Dominira Saul

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...

Design

Please Let Me Go – The Usability of Flight Booking Systems (Pt. 1)

By Michelle Brown

Your name is André Aumond and you wish to book a flight from Toronto, ON, Canada to Orlando, FL, USA for two weeks, leaving the 15th of July. You...

Design

Google Goes Gaga for Gestures

By Dan Iaboni

"For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the...

Design

UX Design as a Silver Bullet

By Tedde van Gelderen

At some point, in your early career as a UX designer, it happens: you are working on a project with multiple, even many stakeholders that each put...

Innovation

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