A well-structured user experience strategy, one that focuses on understanding the contextual requirements of each stakeholder (from management to operator) should be an integral part of any IIoT initiative.
Knowing that design can enhance strategic competitive advantage, more commercial/industrial companies are using design to establish leadership positions.
Don’t Be Late For Launch
Be first, be smarter, or cheat. Striking the balance between achieving the greatest possible design and the need to achieve business outcomes.
As Service Design Evolves, These Skills Endure
As Service Design finds new applications in different industries, there are four core traits that continue to be necessary for bringing value to current-day business challenges.
The User Experience of the Gas Station and What It Could Be. Through the lens of Jakob Nielsen’s “10 Usability Heuristics for UI Design.”
Total Design
Investing in design used to be justified by guaranteeing an attractive looking product that would seduce people into buying it. Now it’s not that simple.
Is your development process leaving value on the cutting room floor? In this piece, Bill Hartman suggests 9 ways to incorporate worthwhile user-centered design methods into Agile development, leading to better outcomes for you, your team, and your users.
Content at the 2017 UXPA Boston Conference addressed a broad and deep swath of challenges and trends that User Experience Designers are facing. In this piece, Sonya Mead explores three issues/trends of particular interest.
Coming home to the 'good old days'
Ashley Legg explores what designers can learn from the contrast of the traditional, old-fashioned homes in the United States with the modern, high-tech lives of the people living within.
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend the Front End of Innovation (FEI) Conference in Boston. There seemed to be an underlying feeling of “There’s a lot that we want to do, that we can do, but how much of it will we actually be able to realize?”