The growing need for UX practitioners is driving academic institutions and industry to find innovative ways to blend research, professionalization, and teaching to inspire and train people to enter the workplace.
Using tweets to understand what a geographical neighborhood is like shows both the promise and some of the limitations of big data analysis.
A review of “Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation” by Leo Frishberg and Charles Lambdin.
The ten rules and the tetrahedron of innovation are tools to collaborate and develop designs and products that people want to use and embrace every day.
Product design often focuses on incremental innovation—new features and standard metrics. To create products with a deep emotional connection, we must consider not only functionality, but also symbolic meaning.
When users’ expertise connects with designers’ solution expertise, new products often click. Platforms like LINE and social games like Pokémon Go show the power of connected fan communities for innovation.
Help people be, do, feel, and look better to create products that are designed to win both the hearts and minds of their customers
A review of The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaboration by Ben Shneiderman. A fresh look at how teams and innovation work together.
A review of 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization by Vijay Kumar. A guidebook about innovation and design thinking techniques.
Company executives increasingly agree that good design is good business. Has UX finally been recognized as strategic? How do we take advantage of this?