A New UX Training Community: Experience Thinkers
By Siobhan Kennedy
02.10.2021
To kick off our training in 2021, we’re sharing an interview with Tedde van Gelderen, President and Founder of Akendi and Experience Thinkers...
Read moreResearch is the backbone of good design. A thorough understanding of people’s needs is required to make things easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Our collection of Research blogs covers a range of research methods and the necessary insights to integrate them into your practice.
By Siobhan Kennedy
02.10.2021
To kick off our training in 2021, we’re sharing an interview with Tedde van Gelderen, President and Founder of Akendi and Experience Thinkers...
Read moreBy Cassandra Wiesner
06.18.2020
Being a UX designer I conduct a lot of qualitative research, from developing personas and journey maps to validating websites and products. There...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
06.02.2020
As a user researcher, part of the work is communicating the results of our research. And to get to that moment, we engage with users and...
Read moreBy Dan Iaboni
05.08.2020
A common ask from clients and students is for me to help them explain the reasons for conducting user research within their organization. While...
Read moreBy Hamilton Hernandez
03.27.2018
The first post in this series talked about the fundamentals of asking questions in UX research. This article describes how we ask questions during...
Read moreBy Foong Ling Chen
01.22.2018
In the past year, I’ve been to a fair share of talks, panels, and conferences. Without a doubt, the question the audience always asks is, “How do...
Read moreBy Leo Poll
12.18.2017
Does your company have an experience researcher? The answer is probably no but if you had one then she or he would be worth their weight in gold...
Read moreBy Leo Poll
10.23.2017
Interaction design is the phase almost all UX professionals enjoy the most, as this is where they finally get to create that experience that will...
Read moreBy Geoff McCormick
10.16.2017
There was a great post in my Linkedin feed recently by Luke Wroblewski of Google, with some simple and powerful stats. It’s a great post with...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
07.05.2017
Just this morning I was reminded of something I’d used in past talks and I wanted to revisit the concept. The conversation I had was around our...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
04.27.2017
Ok, we’re all humans. It is a label that encompasses us all. But in experience research and design we rarely, if ever, create for or try to...
Read moreBy Hamilton Hernandez
04.18.2017
Surveys, interviews, usability tests and other UX research methods are meant to elicit information to help us clearly understand a user/customer...
Read moreBy Maya Levin
09.20.2016
In my last blog post, I talked about creating an interior space through the lens of User Experience Design (UXD). This perspective introduced the...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
08.04.2016
I’m going to talk about our clients; the clients who pay for our work, for whom we love to go out of our way to make happy. I’d like to talk about...
Read moreBy Dominira Saul
04.12.2016
At the time of writing this blog I am facing a real dilemma, nay even an existential crisis. I am torn between addressing two pressing and...
Read moreAbout Akendi
Akendi is a human experience design firm, leveraging equal parts experience research and creative design excellence. We provide strategic insights and analysis about customer and user behaviour and combine this knowledge with inspired design. The results enable organizations to improve effectiveness, engage users and provide remarkable customer experiences to their audiences.