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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.

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 the Experience

By Tedde van Gelderen

Predicting how many teams figure out their product 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 ofÃ‚Â weeks Akendi, along with our partners, will be hosting IoT613, in Ottawa.Ã‚Â 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

Mobile Payments and Tap Technology

By Dominira Saul

The million dollar question that is on everyone's mind for this year is whether or not consumers are ready to cut the tether that binds us to our...

Build

A Primer on Gamification

By Seneca Brandi

With the holiday season upon us, and gift giving in the air, I couldn't help but notice the recent bombardment of video game commercials on TV...

Innovation

The UX of Credit: an Evolution of Trust

By Dan Iaboni

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...

General

Innovations for Niche User Needs

By Leo Poll

Tech is cool. And engineers just keep inventing cool tech, often without really considering what their inventions are really going to be used for...

Innovation

Innovation Techniques in Disguise: Hooked book review

By Lisa Min

As we know, successful product innovation is something that all product managers strive for. There are plenty of resources out there that provide...

General

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