Making the Urgent Case for User Research
By Dan Iaboni
A common ask from clients and students is for me to help them explain the reasons for conducting user research within their organization. While...
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UX research
By Dan Iaboni
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 Leo Poll
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 Geoff McCormick
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 Dominira Saul
At the time of writing this blog I am facing a real dilemma, nay even an existential crisis. Â I am torn between addressing two pressing and...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
Predicting how many teams figure out their product requirements has been following a distinct pattern over the years for me. Many times when I...
Read moreBy Amanda Billark
On November 12 & 13th, Akendi participated in RGD’s 16th annual Design Thinkers Conference, the largest Conference for Visual Design in...
Read moreBy Tedde van Gelderen
In my UX consulting life I go through many, sometimes brief, cycles of meeting a potential new client, talk about what their pain points are, what...
Read moreBy Seneca Brandi
I recently participated in an open design challenge from NASA to create an application for a wearable device. The challenge called specifically...
Read moreBy Jen Hennings
Coming from a development background, from an old school development house, I have encountered a lot of varying responses to UX Design from...
Read moreBy Leo Poll
Recently somebody remarked that he didn’t understand what all the fuss around UX was all about. Surely this was not a professional discipline...
Read moreBy Dan Iaboni
As we gear up for summer blockbusters, I thought it would be fun to take a look at how usability and user testing is represented in the fictional...
Read moreBy Patrick Noonan
The first time in your career that you notice things have changed since you started is a pretty exciting milestone. In a young industry like UX...
Read moreBy Shaun Illingworth
I recently attended a large UX conference – lauded as one of the largest in Canada. It was an enjoyable couple of days with some well-known and...
Read moreBy Leo Poll
Would you call a smartphone smart, as in SMART smart? Probably not. Granted, it’s a very capable device with high speed internet, a large...
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.