What do Tamagotchis, Furbies, and Smoke Alarms All Have in Common?
By Michelle Brown
The Tamagotchi As 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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User Centred Design
By Michelle Brown
The Tamagotchi As a young child in the 90’s with no dog, I desperately wanted a Tamagotchi. Desperately. The pocket-sized virtual pet promised...
Read moreBy Siobhan Kennedy
A look at how sharing-economy giants, Uber and Airbnb, differ in their approach to garnering trust through messaging and visual design. We’re...
Read moreBy Janet Bewell
Have you ever faced this signage dilemma? Amazing, isn’t it? I know which way to turn for everyone else’s room but my own.* And yet...
Read moreBy Lisa Min
I’ve recently relocated outside of the Greater Toronto Area and find myself commuting into Toronto on the GO Train quite frequently. In the...
Read moreBy Fatima Kanji
When creating forms, interaction designers are often faced with having to select a Graphical User Interface (GUI) element that dictates the...
Read moreBy Seneca Brandi
Interaction design can be a delicate balancing act between meeting the needs of the user and wrestling with the limitations of the technology...
Read moreBy Dominira Saul
In a recent interview with Zane Lowe of the BBC, Kanye West said that he believes that the world can only be saved through design. “I...
Read moreBy Michelle Brown
One Saturday in an upscale supermarket in California, shoppers were greeted with an extraordinary display of 24 types of jam to sample and buy...
Read moreBy Lisa Min
It’s been over five years since the launch of the addictive photo sharing website, Pinterest. And the impact that it has had on visual and...
Read moreBy Siobhan Kennedy
After recently completing an extensive website design style guide for a client, we were reminded just how much this document reflects the...
Read moreBy 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...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
As an advocate of Experience Thinking, a framework that among other elements introduces the human as a stakeholder throughout the development of...
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.