Perspective
OUR FOUNDATION

GREAT EXPERIENCES ARE GREAT BUSINESS

Akendi's Experience Thinking reflects our unique, collaborative approach of combining creative solutions with active user involvement.

Making things work for people

The experience matters. What's good for your audience is good for your business. Establishing the experience first is instrumental for early validation and helps you deliver something more people want.

de-risk the user experience
DE-RISK THE EXPERIENCE

Get the necessary insights and drivers before you commit time and resources to design a product or service. The result? Higher engagement and a predictable experience at launch.

understand use
UNDERSTAND USE

When you understand the experience early with your audience, you create a focused strategy that has higher quality requirements at the start of your project. This leads to meeting both your user's needs as well as your business needs.

repeatable success
REPEATABLE SUCCESS

Innovation is a constant in business. Doing it in the right way allows you to deliver ongoing value in tune with your audience's needs and desires. Today and in the future.

Let's create your shorter path
to awesome. Together.

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OUR PERSPECTIVE

EXPERIENCE THINKING

Experience Thinking Perspective

The experience is not created in a vacuum or as an afterthought

There are four key experiences that need to be considered to improve and innovate customer and user journeys: Brand, Content, Product, and Service. Often, all four need to be researched, strategized and designed in close collaboration with stakeholders, customers and users.
brand experience
Deliver the brand promise
through the brand experience

Brand

Defining a strong brand requires discovery to define the vision and design for the qualities you want associated with your organization. This means your brand promise becomes not only what you want it to be, but also what your audience thinks and feels about you over time.

The team provided professional advice and thought-provoking questions to shape the purpose and future direction of my goals. It was an absolute pleasure working with Akendi!


Erica Wiebe, Olympic Champion
content experiences
Match user expectations

Content

With ever growing information available to us, Content is now the product. Different media, big data and machine learning helps to interact in a way that makes sense to us. Understand how users think so you can match the way they want to find information. The need to design your Content so it enhances the Product and Service experience is higher than ever.

product experiences
Involve users early and often

Product

At some point, your product or service will be used by your customers, so why not involve them during design? When you engage people in the process early, you learn if the flow and interactions work as envisioned and deliver an intentional experience at launch. Successful organizations apply the right mix of business, customer and user input, this puts the focus squarely on the experience.

service experiences
The big picture

Service

Service design connects the points of the experience. Since people experience your organization often through the service they receive, we need to design the service as an end-to-end experience. Here is where we tie brand, content, and product experiences together to make them work successfully in a connected, holistic way.

Akendi gave us greater insight into our users, their customer journeys and their behaviours, allowing us to better position ourselves to respond to their needs in a way that met their expectations.


Chris Atack, Director of Season-seat Membership & Group Ticket Sales

People don't just buy products, they buy experiences

No matter what experiences you're looking to create, Experience Thinking is essential to delivering cohesive, remarkable experiences that will delight long after the initial encounter. Let's get started.
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Clients we've helped with intentional experiences
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Interested to know more about Experience Thinking?

Take a deeper dive into Experience Thinking with the published book, "Experience Thinking: Creating Connected Experiences" by Tedde van Gelderen, Founder of Akendi.

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