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Inspiring Innovation: How People Stories Can Spark Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

His efforts empowered millions, especially women, by providing small loans to help them start businesses, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. Shigeru Miyamoto : The Japanese video game designer who created iconic franchises like Mario , The Legend of Zelda , and Donkey Kong.

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The Comforter Cold War of 2006

Innovation Excellence

(or How Assumptions Stifle Innovation) GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the room were two single beds, each with a fluffy white comforter folded neatly on top. Yeah, this is not gonna work.” I had just entered my one-bedroom corporate apartment in Copenhagen, and while everything else was pleasantly light and spacious, there was no […]

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. - Part 1

Boxes and Arrows

As UX professionals, we strive to design engaging experiences. Whether you’re designing a website or a physical product, the formation of a relationship depends on how useful, usable and pleasurable the experience is. Then, we’ll dive deeper to explore how design elicits and communicates emotion and personality to users.

Design 101
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Design for Emotion and Flow

Boxes and Arrows

Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention. The causes of flow have the most implications for website and application design. When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely.

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How Vanguard, Verizon, and Spotify Apply a Product Operating Model at Scale

Planview

Each company achieved significant business improvements: Vanguard increased its technology change rate five-fold while reducing major incidents by 75%. Microservice Architecture: Switching from monolithic applications to microservices made changes faster and more stable, as smaller code units limited the impact of modifications.

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The Universality of Leadership: Challenging Industry-Specific Biases

Tullio Siragusa

When he took the reins at Ford in 2006, the company was facing dire financial straits. Under Mulally’s strategic vision and the “One Ford” plan, he streamlined brands, globalized the company’s operations, and renewed focus on innovative car designs. Emotional Intelligence doesn’t change with industry jargon or processes.

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What UX Designers Need to Know about Conversion Rate Optimization

Boxes and Arrows

The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Content goals are business goals.

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