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Become proactive instead of reactive with Future Designs

mjvinnovation

Let’s take a step back and dig a little deeper into the theory behind Futures Studies and Futures Design in order to contextualize “scenario” and “collapse”. He revisited this model in Advancing Futures (2002). Coachella is postponing, while E3, the biggest game design fair in the world, is going virtual. Hawaii foresight Ph.D.

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The Evolution of My Speaking Video

Stephen Shapiro

So with that as background, here’s the evolution of my speaking video, starting with my first one from 20022002: Style over Substance (3 minutes). Because we designed this through the lens of a sales video, there is a lot of social proof included. My latest video was designed to be pure content. No selling.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. Whether you’re designing a website or a physical product, the formation of a relationship depends on how useful, usable and pleasurable the experience is. Then, we’ll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users.

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Third Place and the Starbucks empire: the user experience at the heart of strategy

mjvinnovation

Starbucks has now incorporated this philosophy into its retail design and business strategy. In any case, the way Starbucks designs its stores, and its service serves as a “prosthesis” of the third place for medium and large cities, increasingly lacking in public spaces for congregating and socializing. . What is the third place?

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Hidden tools at my fingertips

100%Open

It’s an ugly truth that in life, time is money, and by attending Tony Harmer’s ‘Content Velocity with Adobe Creative Cloud’ seminar last Thursday, I was led to understand that how, as a designer, it was possible to create great content even faster. There’s always an opportunity to learn more. Speed versus quality. Left, or right?

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Conceptual Models in a Nutshell

Boxes and Arrows

This article explains what conceptual models are and describes the value of developing a conceptual model of a software application before designing its user interface. A conceptual model of an application is the model of the application that the designers want users to understand. Conceptual Model: a Model for Users’ Mental Model.

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Has COVID-19 led us into a Collapse scenario?

mjvinnovation

Let’s take a step back and dig a little deeper into the theory behind Futures Studies and Futures Design in order to contextualise “scenario” and “collapse”. He revisited this model in Advancing Futures (2002). Coachella is postponing, while E3, the biggest game design fair in the world, is going virtual. Hawaii foresight Ph.D.