Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 17, 2010

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. These experiences help to forge relationships between the products we create and the people who use them. Then, we’ll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users.

Design 101

Design Examples Engagement Learning 101

Innovation Excellence

MAY 18, 2020

Feynman’s point was that we can’t merely mimic behaviors and expect to get results. In 2004, I was leading a major news organization during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Business cases are, necessarily, usually focused on successful efforts, researched after the fact and written from a management perspective.

Strategy 52

Strategy Strategy Case Study Survey 52

Boxes and Arrows

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. This concept is adapted from UCD ’s scenario based design methods. Agile methods were developed without consideration for UX best practices. The feedback loop is broken.

Software Review 107

Software Review Agile Software Design 107

Open Innovation EU

JANUARY 9, 2019

Bessant noted that organizations should always find a balance between innovators and innovation managers. She also talked to asked Alexander Osterwalder and asked him the question why ‘designers who are fluent at business strategy’ and ‘business people who are fluent at design’ are so different to each other.

Entrepreneurship 47

Entrepreneurship Design Strategy Strategy 47

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 7, 2008

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges.

Design 95

Design Software Learning Marketing 95

Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 12, 2009

The role of the information architect (IA), interaction designer, or user experience (UX) designer is to help create architecture and interactions which will impact the user in constructive, meaningful ways. But sometimes the design choices we make are not good enough for the users we’re trying to reach.

Design 70

Design Underperforming Technical Team Culture Groups 70

Integrative Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

Although the rationale for business model innovation seems to be conclusive, we can find a lot of reasons why companies fail at it. Companies exploring new business models may not fully recognize that these tensions will almost inevitably emerge and thus may be ill-prepared to manage them. That said, Clayton Christensen et al.

Innovation 89

Innovation Strategy Strategy Disruption 89

Planview

APRIL 11, 2019

Planview Spigit lets us give employees an opportunity to create the next big thing.” – Joe Laurin, Visioneering Manager, Polaris Industries . They needed a way to access greater idea diversity, streamline the innovation management process, drive implementation, and knock down bureaucracies. How do they accomplish this?

Case Study 56

Case Study Crowdsourcing Study Industry 56

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. We are familiar with all these inventions. Here is another question: Do you know who these people are? Yes, you read it right. And what they invented?

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

IdeaSpies

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. We are familiar with all these inventions. Here is another question: Do you know who these people are? Jack Ma (2000), Jeff Bezos (2003), Mark Zuckerberg (2004), Reed Hastings (2007), Brian Chesky (2008), Travis Kalanick (2009), Anthony Tan (2012). And what they invented?

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Innovation 57

IdeaSpies

AUGUST 31, 2018

I’m going to talk about how, in the 21st Century, we need ‘Goodness’ more than ‘Greatness’ when it comes to innovation. The management consultant giant McKinsey and Co. We are familiar with all these inventions. Here is another question: Do you know who these people are? Yes, you read it right. And what they invented?

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Leadership 57

Wazoku

DECEMBER 1, 2017

There is little doubt that “the risk of loss, harm or failure,” which is the dictionary definition of jeopardy is a component part of why we innovate. The pace of change across most industries, driven by new technology and more open, collaborative and transparent ways of working, means we are all in potential jeopardy.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Innovation System Technology 40

The BMI Lab Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

In a previous post, we described the Chinese innovation ecosystem: a rapidly growing environment, where the role of the Chinese government is crucial to enable the needed conditions for companies to thrive and innovate. We can summarize their business approach in the following points: The Chinese customers are avid buyers of technology.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Innovation LEAN Marketing 73

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Yet in the words of the medieval Persian adage, this, too, shall pass and at some point in the future we will all be back to our globe-trotting ways. At one point, when Wood and his guide are cleaning up after a meal, the adventurer writes that “we cleaned the pots using only sand in the old Bedouin way, which gave them a scoured sparkle. ‘We

Innovation 72

Innovation Technical Review Software Review Study 72

hackerearth

MAY 12, 2017

Here’s a look at top companies who took customized innovation routes to pull themselves back from the brink of failure: APPLE. Apple has refashioned consumer experience with its iconic branding, stylish design and a diverse product range, its own retail stores, and important partnerships with the competition. These were big companies.

Innovation 40

Innovation Disruption Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 40

Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 14, 2008

RU: How did you get your start in Interaction/Information Design? BD: Like most people working in interaction design, I arrived from a lateral discipline. I had been an information architect working strictly on web projects from 2000-2004, either within an agency or as a consultant, respectively before and after the tech collapse.

Conference 40

Conference Design Meeting Case Study 40

hackerearth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

However, if you’ve been one of those lucky ones who had “creativity” as an academic discipline at school, you’d know that it can at least be nurtured. Perhaps, like renowned educationalist, Sir Ken Robinson says, “We got educated out of creativity.” Being innovative or creative looks like an inherent trait to most of us, doesn’t it?

LEAN 12

LEAN Entrepreneurship Innovation Case Study 12