Posting a recent article on Brad Smith our CEO at Intuit on building a design-driven company. From the article, “Even before I became CEO, I’d been working to help our teams understand what makes a product experience delightful. Ease of use is important, but it’s not everything. We began talking…
Just wrapping up reading The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. I walk away from the series with two words burned into my brain. “Viriditas” and “Areophany“. I wonder how do these concepts apply to our appreciation of design and design systems. from Wikipedia: “Viriditas (Latin, literally “greenness,” formerly translated as…
Attended a great session today at QB Connect by Rhonda Abrams “5 Key Lessons for Every Entrepreneur”. About Rhonda – USA Today columnist and entrepreneurship expert, Rhonda Abrams shares common issues for small businesses and advises on do-it-now action items to set your business up for success. http://www.planningshop.com/rhonda-abrams/ Key issue: Good…
Here’s a little bit of what goes on in each of the 5 stages (excerpt from the article) Stage 1 (Interested): In the first level of EBD maturity, organizations begin to believe that customer experience is an important part of their business. They start undertaking a number of different efforts without making any…
Great article on UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry Check it out on www.fastcodesign.com “Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different…
An intelligent systems learns how to act to provide customer value through data, context, logic and behavior. Intelligent Systems are about people and making their lives better in such a profound way they can’t imagine going back to the old way. Check it out via slideshare
1. Start by building a bigger box rather than trying to think outside it! 2. Select your team for who they know as well as what they know 3. Pick one leader and provide him or her the autonomy they need to be successful 4. Build a team that can…
The brilliant minds behind Chipotle’s haunting scarecrow ad From The Week
Just sharing a recent talk for the USAID funded Resilient Africa project on the Design for Delight and The Innovation Catalysts More about the project can be found at Resilient Africa Network