Attend a great talk by Jason Nazar at QB Connect on the topic: “21 Golden Rules on How to Persuade People” The Basics: Persuasion is NOT manipulation – Persuasion is the science and art of getting someone to do something that is simultaneously in their and your best interest. By serving other people you can […]
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Viriditas & Areophany and Design
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 “viridity”[1]) is a word meaning […]
Jacques Ostiguy, a beloved Industrial Design professor
One of my beloved industrial design teachers from Carleton University recently had an article posted about his life in automotive design and academia. He was a great teacher, maybe a little odd, but he taugh his students to be passionate, detailed and creative. Our class recalls his advice that we only drink high quality alcohol in […]
QB Connect – Rhonda Abrams “5 Key Lessons for Every Entrepreneur”
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 business plan “You can’t reach […]
UX Maturity Model by Bruce Tempkin’s
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 major investments, attempting to get […]
Ultimate Customer Experience Infographic from the Temkin Group
Ultimate Customer Experience Infographic from the Temkin Group. You can find the infographic here: roi-of-customer-experience
Keep Calm and Continue Business as Usual
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Making Learning Easy by Design from Medium.com
A great article from Medium.com Making Learning Easy by Design. How Google’s Primer team approached UX Quote from the post: “That was the challenge at hand when our team at Google set out to createPrimer, a new mobile app that helps people learn digital marketing concepts in 5 minutes or less. UX was at the heart of this […]
How to Build a Minimum Viable Product
Summarizing what MVP means: Build something useful & delightful at every stage (even with limited functionality) Don’t just implement all the features in a half-assed way, pick a subset of features and really do a great job on them Reference to the original post by Henrik Kniberg. Making sense of MVP (Minimum Viable Product) – […]
Wearable VEST – LED Project
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