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2013 User Experience Awards

Boxes and Arrows

The 2013 User Experience Awards were presented Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Parson’s Tischman Auditorium in New York. Jurors of the 2013 UX Awards were: Anders Ramsay, agile UX designer & coach, UX author, leader of NYC IA Meetup and Agile Experience Design Group. The keynote speech.

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Design Thinking for Innovation

Wazoku

Design thinking has become a popular topic for discussion; with industry leaders like IBM and GE embracing and embedding design thinking in their organisations, other organisations are inevitably taking note. Design thinking is first and foremost people-centred, deriving products and services to meet a genuine need.

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An Answer to the Pains of Integrating Agile and UX

Boxes and Arrows

I recently attended UXPA 2013 in D.C. Although I was attending as a sponsor/exhibitor for Indigo Studio, I did manage to break away to go to the “There’s more than one way to skin a cat: Integrating UX into an Agile environment” session. It tied in quite nicely with the book I’m reviewing here. Enter the book.

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Designing for Harmony

Boxes and Arrows

By using these nascent user-centered design methods, they were able to meet the expanding needs of their user base and claim over 90% of the small business accounting software market. A noticeable lack of focus prevented them from innovating as a company; their user-centered design DNA was disappearing.

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Implementing Open Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Open-Source Innovation: Insights from Ariana Smetana of AccelIQ Digital

Qmarkets

After that, I decided to chart a different course by exploring my other interests and developing my creative side, which I expressed by founding an interior design and workspace strategy firm in 2010. These collaborative partnerships allow us to facilitate deploying solutions to accelerate digital transformation in agile ways.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

Traditional bookstores responded with their own websites but none was as appealing, as agile or as successful as Amazon. But Amazon had no experience or competence in electronic product design or manufacture. In 2013 it announced plans for drone deliveries. In 2013, he purchased The Washington Post newspaper.