Akendi UX Blog: Reflections on all things UX

The Ultimate Akendi UX Course Guide

By Michelle Brown

06.05.2018

Have a particular goal and want to know what UX training courses will help the most? While we would recommend taking every course we offer, we...

Experience Thinking

What Makes the Akendi Team Tick?

By Siobhan Kennedy

05.29.2018

Today, we’re celebrating our talented team of researchers and designers by providing a glimpse into how they got started, and what fuels and...

General UX

Brand Strategy: Is a Controversial Name a Good Approach?

By Hamilton Hernandez

05.04.2018

Would you be Escobar's customer? I’m not talking about Pablo Escobar, the drug lord who trafficked drugs within and outside of Colombia between...

Brand Experience

Service Blueprinting

By Hamilton Hernandez

04.19.2018

The best cities, buildings, vehicles, and products are often the ones that have been thoughtfully and purposefully designed. Often, designers...

Service Design

An Accessible World

By Jessica Murray

04.17.2018

Accessibility has become a hot topic in the design world but how do we design for it? And how do we plan for it? In a diverse world like ours, we...

General UX

Designing for Different Mental Models

By Michelle Brown

04.03.2018

There’s no such thing as easy to use for everyone. I’ve bought many transportation tickets in my life before. I’ve even muddled my way through...

General UX

The Art of Asking Questions in Usability Testing

By 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...

Research

App Review: The White House’s 1600

By Dan Iaboni

02.01.2018

Want to have a little fun with a demo of augmented reality? Then you might want to search around for a US dollar bill and try out the 1600...

General UX

The UX of IoT Devices

By Dominira Saul

01.30.2018

If you’ve survived the gift-giving frenzy of the recent holiday season, then perhaps you gave or received a connected device. Whether it was a...

General UX

Do Client’s Know What They’re Approving?

By Yvonne Shek

01.25.2018

I am currently renovating my kitchen. It’s a pre-fab kitchen from a well-known company that sells furniture and home furnishings. They sell entire...

General UX