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Thoughts on Procurement and Communication
Attended a minor business procurement conference recently and like many networking-oriented items, this was a lot of conversations, business card swapping, and hopeful contract meshing. Avanceé is not exactly within this side of space, but it makes sense to go to these affairs to get an idea of the technical and operational hurdles our target market identifies with. If you will, it’s not so much the folks looking to get work done we focus on, but those folks who technically and operationally have gaps where they might try to leverage better relationships or acquisitions to fulfill. Continue reading →
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Speed, Velocity, and Tempo
Having a conversation adjacent to a previous about the “three-legged table” - business, IT, and UX (or CX if you prefer the larger wrapper) - brought to the table a wonder if there’s something similar to speed (business: time to market, market response, product development, etc) or velocity (IT: build response, component maturation, product management viability, etc). The word which came to mind for CX/UX was “tempo.” Why? There is an orchestration which happens in measuring or managing the experience lifecycle of a product, program, or service. Continue reading →
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Avanceé Articles in 2025 So Far
Last year, we published a mid-year compilation noting the editorial-type pieces posted in the first half of the year. With 2025 a few weeks more than half complete, it makes sense to do the same for this year. Jan 2025 On Data Visualizations and Decisions OpenAI Operator Quick Thoughts Considerations and Certifications Feb 2025 Stumbling As Agility Update to Brilliant Labs Frame 👓 Experiment Opining about Human-Centered Design in Civic Tech March 2025 Timelines: March 2018’s Link Shares ♾️ An Inevitability of AI Doing Something Torque Wrenches Timelinses: Brigadoon Annapolis ♾️ You Aren’t Looking for A Coach April 2025 Timelines: Musings on Productivity ♾️ UX Solutions Architecture - Four Pillars Chatting about Muse Today Making AR More Useful On Perspective May 2025 When Do We Get to Molding Video: How Muse Fits Avancee’s Workflow A View of This Connected Time Articulating Something Through the Noise Peeled Thoughts Rarely Shared June 2025 Reviewing Past Fractional Clarity Clarity of Costs WWDC 25 Quick Thought on iPadOS Working with Refreshed Tools Difference Between What You Are Selling and What You Are Selling Continue reading →
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Difference Between What You Are Selling and What You Are Selling
Having been a part of several teams and a few companies over the years, one gets a good look at what products and services look like once they have gone to market. In some cases, one the product has gone to market, the actual company service steps into place. This could be an emphasis on customer support, timeliness to responding to problems, or even agility in information architecture making it easier to prevent high-level issues from reoccurring. Continue reading →
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Working with Refreshed Tools
Am not usually one to play with desktop software - much if it just has an overall UX that hasn’t moved forward in 40+ years. But, was intrigued to take a look at what The Browser Company is doing with Dia, a web browser distinct from the Arc browser they’d been pushing. At the first glance, it is no different than many ”AI tools” in that it’s largely text-chat based. But, then you push forward a bit and you’d see some pretty cool bits right under the covers. Continue reading →
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WWDC 25 Quick Thought on iPadOS
As someone who uses iPadOS for 90+% of computing, Apple’s WWDC 25 is always an interesting time to hear/see what has been brewing. That said, given the order of presenting at today’s keynote: iOS CarOS WatchOS tvOS macOS VisionOS iPadOS …the expectation that something more powerful for iPadOS was definitely desired. What was shown did not match the vision I hold for the malleable canvas that is a tablet which encourages using multiple fingers, gestures, and interface tools to shape one’s experience. Continue reading →
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Clarity of Costs
So how much does it cost to not have clarity to your product or service? There was a time I’d look at this solely as a design question. And then, I did the math. Every bad design decision led to something implemented that needed continual support. So, I’d started looking at the costs associated to support (support staff, training, documentation, governance/auditing, etc)… …the math gets a bit unwieldy, but its actually a fairly straightforward answer every time. Continue reading →
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Reviewing Past Fractional Clarity
Conversations with a former coworker re-introduced archived content (in Muse where methods and techniques were used to establish an artifact called DesignOps (design operations). Besides having a delicious trip down memory lane for the use of Miro, there was also a delightful retracing of steps where I had to o serve content that moved from being difficult to understand, to being immensely more complex and powerful than many logical models. Part of that board had a sensemaking framework mapped to quadrants. Continue reading →
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Peeled Thoughts Rarely Shared
Peeling from some untold thoughts… I saw the AiPin and iPad as complimentary to each other… and yet a different paradigm than mobile & laptop (which I also see as complimentary). I look at all of the “incantations“ that make up everything from basic writing to coding applications to now prompting, and I see a desire for friction to be even further reduced than what might be possible in this moment. Continue reading →
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Articulating Something Through the Noise
Perhaps, seeing Google I/O meant that reflecting on what has been said and done in the past is an order. Here’s what we spoke about last year that’s showing in Google’s, OpenAI’s, and other news about the tech landscape: LLM Hardware and Muse AI as Accessibility Tooling Re-Engineering AI/ML Complexity Noted from Humane AiPin Use Implications of AiPin and Oura Connectivity Heh, and that’s just last year’s musings… going further back we could probably articulate a few other nuances lost in the noise. Continue reading →
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