Our Insider Insights interviews bring together insights from authors, consultants, coaches, and other industry experts on topics relating to online digital innovation. Find highlights, and links to the full interviews, below. Topics include civic tech with Cyd Harrell, conversation design with Jon Bloom, information architecture with Abbey Covert, and modernizing online benefits with Jamie Brennan. … Read more
Our Insider Insights interviews bring together insights from authors, consultants, coaches, and other industry experts on topics relating to online digital innovation. Find highlights from some of our recent guests, with links to full interviews, below. Topics include public interest technology by Tara McGuinness and Hana Schank, Michael Sahota on evolutionary agile leadership, Katie Swindler … Read more
By Sarah Fruy Today’s tech strategy dictates the inclusion of cybersecurity into every layer of organizational technology. Rising threats targeting sensitive information and the growing efficiency of hacking methods puts data security top of mind for many companies who want to protect personal details gathered from customers. Furthermore, the expense of security vulnerabilities and exposure … Read more
By Sarah Crossman Graphics by Peter Clark Read the full post at Top 10 Most Effective UX Trends for 2021. Top 10 Most Effective UX Trends for 2021 1. UX is the Stress Rx Check Nielsen’s 10 Heuristics for User Interface Design to ensure your design adheres to basic rules and takes the stress out … Read more
By Sarah Crossman With 2020 behind us, we’ve all been working hard to make a fresh start in 2021. However, I find, as a designer, that the events of 2020 are still impacting how we interact online. Here’s a look at the top 10 user experience (UX) design takeaways from 2020, and how they’re making … Read more
By Kevin Ferguson We know motivation when we see it in others. The colleague that always seems to have gone the extra mile (or two!) and not just completed her project, but also pilots a new technique in the process. The co-worker who manages to finish the report by deadline, but you noticed he also found … Read more
By Kevin Ferguson Tell me if this sounds familiar. I show up at my desk in the morning with the best intentions. Today is going to be the day that I get my BIG goals accomplished! I log in and open my email. A couple things look urgent, an email thread from yesterday seems to … Read more
By Miljan Bajic There are projects that are fairly straight forward and relatively predictable, where rational tools of planning and decision making can be applied. Other projects that are more complex or unpredictable call for a different approach relying more on self-organization and innovation. Most software development projects are considered complex and unpredictable in nature … Read more
By John Gordon I’ll be honest, requirements gathering is not why I got into the software business. I got in software to code; it’s what I loved to do and what the client wanted, I thought. I don’t think I’m unusual as far as developers go, we all love to code. An equally common trait … Read more
By Kevin Ferguson Do you ever feel like the day flies by and you must have done a lot because you were really busy, but you didn’t get a lot done? Even more so when working at home, with the distractions that can pop up, it might feel like the time is slipping by, but … Read more