IdeaScale

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The spotlight will be on creativity, communication, inspiration, and innovation leadership at Open Nation 2019, IdeaScale’s annual conference set for Oct. This isn’t to say these people can never add value to your project. Don’t miss next year’s conference; get our newsletter! 24-25 in Washington, D.C. A Legacy of Innovation.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Dear Project Managers, It has been a very enjoyable experience working with everyone over the last couple of months and sharing our ideas on UX design. User-centric design principles, however, do not replace the fact-finding mission we all need to take as UX designers; they merely serve as a starting point for making design decisions.

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Planview

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in project portfolio management , process improvement , change leadership , and stakeholder management. After several years working in museum management, Athena decided to specialize in project management, which gradually led her to her current role.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Hands-On Experience : Work on AI projects, either independently or through internships. Build a Portfolio : Showcase your projects and achievements through a professional portfolio. This can include case studies, project reports, and successful AI implementations. Stay Updated : AI is a rapidly evolving field.

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Boxes and Arrows

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The hardest part of building an in-house design agency is answering the basic “Why?”. Senior managers are typically more concerned with defining the overall vision before building the whole project. User research can validate the concept; concept designs can help communicate their vision. Making the case.

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InnovationTraining.org

JANUARY 20, 2022

It is likely that many of you have heard of, worked with or are experts in design thinking. Design thinking is a creative problem solving methodology brought to the forefront by IDEO at least two decades ago (read: it’s old). I started to work with Rinat and Johan on co-design projects back during pre-iPhone days.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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IdeaConnection

AUGUST 4, 2017

If so, point your feet toward Silicon Valley, San Francisco this coming December for the 4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference (WOIC 2017). This huge annual event lays claim to being one of the most well attended open innovation conferences in the world. Open innovation strategy and design. Open innovation ecosystems.

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Leapfrogging

JUNE 4, 2025

Here are some key advantages: Skill Development: Master classes are designed to enhance both fundamental and advanced business skills. This could include skills in business strategy, innovation, change management, or project management. Practical Application: Gain hands-on experience through case studies and real-world scenarios.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 8, 2019

At the same time I've had the honor of chairing the Innovate Carolina conference , where the theme considered the interplay of innovation and digital transformation, and I'm teaching a class at NC State on digital transformation and innovation. Well, teaching may be a strong word.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Does a designer just make pictures?

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Stephen Shapiro

APRIL 30, 2025

It was a side project I never expected to take off. If youre leading a team, designing a conference, or facilitating culture change, this experience sticks. Im Doubling Down on Personality Poker Twenty years ago, I created a card-based activity to help teams collaborate more effectively and innovate more consistently.

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InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 21, 2020

This seemed like a design thinking challenge emerging. An opportunity to put the steps of design thinking into practice: empathy, define, ideate, prototype and test. We took this on as a design thinking project and used a Miro online whiteboard. These were ideas asking to be synthesized. Here’s the synthesized list.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 18, 2012

Podcast Summary Today on Boxes and Arrows, Chris Baum talks with Patrick Quattlebaum, Design Director at Adaptive Path. Patrick has some interesting insights and tools that designers can use to develop experiences across channels.

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IdeaScale

JULY 30, 2019

With easy-to-use design tools, you can create your ads within the site. Outlook even allows you to book conference rooms and track RSVPs directly through the app. With convenient templates and design tools, it’s easy to make your emails look stunning yet still keep them unique by adding your own pictures and videos.

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Christensen Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As someone who speaks at many conferences and events, this one was particularly special because it gave me hope that, with the right support, Africa has the capacity to not only build resilient healthcare systems but also a resilient economy. The I3 Access to Market event in Nigeria was designed to support innovators with these resources.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

One of our finest tasks as designers is to filter the abundance of choice into easily digestible bits. This requires an endeavor into product psychology and the art of designing with purpose and intent. Stakeholders in design. All design has at least two stakeholders. Otherwise it is not design, but art.

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Your Ideas are Terrible

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

If teams working on innovation projects are conscious of their speed and rewarded for their throughput, they will find their way from the good ideas to a great one. Focus on creating an environment for innovation project teams to thrive. Instead, they’ll be stuck in a conference room explaining and persuading.

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Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

JULY 6, 2024

In this edition, we speak with Vaibhav Malik who is a Global Partner Solution Architect, Cloudflare , where he works with global partners to design and implement effective security solutions for their customers. This could involve regular strategy sessions with leadership teams or participation in security steering committees.

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Here’s where I believe IAs and UX designers can use our skills to make a difference. This shows the chronological flow of steps for attending a live event, in this case a panel on service design. “Value-centered design&# is the approach he prefers. Designers are good at representing ideas in graphic form.

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Planview

APRIL 14, 2025

We have to be outcome-driven, mixing in products with our projects. Make informed decisions on projects and work based on resource capacity , availability, and utilization to meet current and future demands. Create a single line of sight into value and alignment, no matter your operating model: project, hybrid, or product and agile.

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

This increased value means increased responsibility: Designers need deep business knowledge, not just wireframing skills. Full “domain knowledge” starts with knowing the basic terminology to business rules, previous project successes and failures, and regulations. How to figure out the right team for a new project?

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Once remotely located a designers ability to interact with other team members and effect change are funneled through the telecommunication mediums that the team uses to communicate. This can add significant value to the conference call by: providing transparency as to who is currently on the call cueing upcoming presenters managing questions.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 13, 2017

“Design the box first” is a classic design exercise to use constraints to discover the unique value proposition. Because digital projects don’t generally have packaging, videos are a good linear storytelling format. Why this matters to designers. Designers have a unique skill set.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the Before Times, we attended conferences to learn, make connections, and promote ourselves and our businesses. Then COVID hit, and conferences became virtual. Because, if we’re honest, most conferences were more about connecting and promoting […].

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IdeaScale

MAY 30, 2019

The ones who are encouraged confer a competitive advantage, improve corporate culture, lead to a healthier corporate bottom line, and can reduce time to market. Teach skills necessary to carry out pilot projects and generally get great ideas on their feet. What Can Your Intrapreneurs Do for Your Company?

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Boxes and Arrows

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. IDEA Conference theme music generously provided by Bumper Tunes. User Experience as a Crucial Driver of Social Business Design – Jeff Dachis Everything that can be digital will be. account: iTunes Del.icio.us

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These are some of the top questions people have about learning experience design (LXD). Read on for the answer summaries for each frequent asked question about designing learning experiences. What is learning experience design and why is it important? How do I get started with learning experience design?

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Peer Insight

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We all want to be the first to market, but no one wants to burn gas on an idling project — nor have an explosion. And I would say, ‘OK, I’m not starting the project.’ It’s easy to wait for new products to be perfected and design an elaborate launch before you start to collect feedback from customers.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 17, 2021

Imagine walking into a packed conference room (or jumping on a zoom call) for a meeting on a pressing topic. As two designers new to the tech and product space, we both have had our fair share of experiences with imposter syndrome. Have you ever turned down a speaking engagement or not raised your hand to lead a special project?

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Boxes and Arrows

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In my career, I’ve encountered user researchers with drastically varying roles and skillsets: many who focus solely on usability, a few who act as hybrid designers and researchers, some that are specialists in ethnography, and yet others who are experts in quantitative research. There’s a ton of variation in what user researchers do.

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Innovation 360 Group

MAY 2, 2018

This ambitious development project was launched in 2016 with 8.2 million Swedish crowns funded by the European Social Fund , and ended on May of 2018, with a media conference to announce and celebrate the projects results, including: Average growth of orderbook by 25%. Average Growth 12%, higher than the national GDP of 5%.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 2, 2013

Now, think back to your last project. But, ignore the deliverables and design ideas. Most of us never stop to wonder why certain projects flow effortlessly while others feel like we’ve entered into a cage match. There’s a separate group handling UI design.”. I design experiences, not just interfaces.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. As a designer for a prominent open source community project, what have you found to be the keys to success in working with open source developers, specifically on the usability and experience fronts?

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Yet2

JANUARY 28, 2020

This was the second year yet2 sent team members to the conference, which markets itself as “The Global Stage for Innovation.” Our mission was twofold: to confirm trends we are seeing and hearing in the global market and to discover new companies and technologies that could be applicable to some of our tech scouting projects.

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Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 27, 2017

As Andy Cohen said at our conference they've Six Sigma'd the opportunity and then leaned it and then made it agile, then applied Six Sigma again. Instead we buy based on design, integration, style, beliefs about the company, and many other factors that make up customer expectations and customer experience.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 15, 2009

Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions (“see schedule&# :[link] The remaining Summit sessions will be published in the next two weeks. | “Preview&# :[link] | “Keynote&# :[link] | “Day 1&# :[link] | Day 2 | Day 3 | “Closing Plenary&# :[link] | iTunes Del.icio.us Is Interaction Necessary?

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