UX is not a Profession
There is a direct link between your organization's revenues and the experience you deliver to your customers and users. More and more companies...
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Exploring the Design Principle of Hope
This is a time of year when I have extra and renewed hope. It's a very happy time for me and my family where we share a sense of hopefulness...
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Is Your Interaction Full of DUST?
When you are continuously evaluating your product it is easy to keep your product feeling fresh. However, if you are not able to refresh your...
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Experience Thinking Maturity: 5 Strategies to De-risk Experiences
Predicting how many product teams figure out their requirements has been following a distinct pattern over the years for me. Many times when I...
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Who Are You and What is Your Story?
Every website should tell a story in some form or another. Its design should reflect who you are and what you want to tell your users. Your...
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Design Thinkers Conference 2015
On November 12 & 13th, Akendi participated in RGD's 16th annual Design Thinkers Conference, the largest Conference for Visual Design in Canada...
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Micro-Moments with the Yummly App: Making a Holiday Dinner
Great recipe apps realize that meal planning, whether it is weekly prep or planning dinner with friends, is a multi-step process. It requires...
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‘I feel as though I’m cheating’
A client once said this to me after watching his very first focus group session. "The concept of getting answers to questions from real potential...
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The UX of Star Wars
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...
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The iPad Pro – A very confused Device
So being a bit of an (massive) Apple fan-girl, I was unbelievably excited when the new iPad Pro arrived in our office at the end of last week...
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What do Tamagotchis, Furbies, and Smoke Alarms All Have in Common?
The TamagotchiAs a young child in the 90's with no dog, I desperately wanted a Tamagotchi. Desperately. The pocket-sized virtual pet promised...
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When designing for Persuasion competes with usability: A look at the Amazon Experience
Making technology more usable is generally thought to add to its persuasive capability, but are there times when usability goals conflict with...
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Don’t be a Chicken!
Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the CanUX 2015; a volunteer-driven event that has come to be Canada's premier annual UX...
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“Another Meeting?!” How to Avoid This Reaction from Project Teams
When those meeting requests appear in your inbox, is your first reaction “UGH! Another one?" As a project manager, I love to organize how we are...
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What happened to the R?
Bringing a product to life has never been easier. "Products" of course can be websites, apps, things, whatever it is you desire can quickly be...
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