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Is Your Product UX a Casualty of Design Drift?

By Scott Plewes

10.23.2023

You tested your design, communicated it to the engineering team, and got sign-off. Yet, the released product UX differed from the intended and...

Experience Thinking

Is Romeo’s love for Juliet a 7 on the Likert scale?

By Scott Plewes

09.14.2023

There's a reason Romeo compared his love for Juliet to the light from the Sun instead of using a quantitative measurement. Math isn't the best...

Experiences are everywhere: UX Goes Beyond Human-Digital Interactions

By Scott Plewes

11.28.2022

Interactions - and hence experiences - occur between people and other people, institutions, physical items, and more. All these interactions can...

General UX

Micro-Moments with the Yummly App: Making a Holiday Dinner

By Foong Ling Chen

12.01.2015

Great recipe apps realize that meal planning, whether it is weekly prep or planning dinner with friends, is a multi-step process. It requires...

General UX

Designing UX for emerging technologies

By Seneca Brandi

09.17.2015

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

Interaction Design

Everything I know about UX I learned from The Terminator

By Dominira Saul

07.17.2014

Yup, that’s right those murderous robots of cinematic lore. The terminator movies teach us some valuable lessons about technology that we’d be...

General UX

Preparing for an Augmented Future: Homework

By Dan Iaboni

04.08.2014

In my webinar I stated that for AR to be successful it needs to be useful and make it easier to do things than the way we do it today. The path...

Innovation

Invent Less, Discover More!

By Leo Poll

03.20.2014

I was intrigued by a story on breakfast radio on how one of the general practitioners practices in the United Kingdom have managed to...

Innovation

When Smart Becomes Genius: context aware computing

By Seneca Brandi

12.12.2013

It seems like every day a new “smart” consumer product is released onto the market with the promise of revolutionary features and added...

General UX

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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.