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Starting from Convo
Building a design ethos, one conversation at a time In talking with people about Avanceé, one of the questions that comes up from designers, or those with a design background, is “how often do you work with other people versus how often do you work by yourself?“ This is a very valuable question, and it tends to be answered honestly — depends on the project. For many organizations however, the work that happens is actually not doing design artifacts (strategy, research, wireframes, proptotypes, and products), which might require individual or collaborative efforts. Continue reading →
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Reflecting on ‘19 So Far
Usually, the middle of the week has been used to share concepts or lingering sketches for current or past projects. Felt like taking things a different direction, reflection of a wider sort. What’s been pandered about so far this quarter? What are the themes to be found? Augmented Intelligence Scribbling Notes Towards Refined Abilities Shortcuts and the Challenge of Flow Human Factors of Efficiency ”Deep Thought” As A Productivity Paradigm Continue reading →
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Deep Thought Paradigm: Workspace
Further ruminations on the specifics of “deep thought” paradigms in a workspace Weird the things which cause a rekindling of former thoughts. In a recent tweet, having nothing to do with the topic of interfaces or work, there was a spark rekindling the previous discussion of deep thought UI paradigms. How does that post about the placement of a connected speaker spark such a thought? It has to do with what we see about our spaces in their ability to be conductive to particular kinds of work. Continue reading →
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Auditing the Peculiar ID/UX Setup
Documenting and adutiing a peculiar (to some) way of working in the interaction design/user experience space When using an iPad Pro as the primary workstation for experience/interaction design, the suite of tools and the workflow is just a little bit different than many. While a shock to some, its not an impossible endeavor. Though, using popular apps such as Sketch and Figma are out of the question. Replacing those with others, or figuring a way around what seems to be normative becomes part of the process also. Continue reading →
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Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei
Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei Probably a good thesis for @microdotblog as well as a note of caution and hope for success Continue reading →
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Unshapen and Focused
Being thrust back to the future of unshapen mobiles and their implications Spent a nice day recently, conversing with other information/experience design professionals during World IA Day. Some of the conversations sprung towards either the tools we use, or how hard it is to focus product and process because of the amount of options which seem to be at our fingertips. Literal fingertips in this case — was using Pencil and Tap to take notes. Continue reading →
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Simply Perspective
Using perspective of the future to communicate a simply, accessible present Living in a space where there’s some freedom towards experimentation and its resulting analysis often leads to incredibly simple insights. However, getting to that point is not so much a matter of iteration, or even research, sometimes, it is a matter of just having a different perspective than others who might be able to utilize those fruits in a more applicable manner. Continue reading →
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Human Factors of Efficiency
Perspectives of humane factors for defining efficiency Long before Avanceé was a clear concept, work was a series of support and design efforts looking at problems spaces from a perspective beyond the stated problem. Solutions invented had the effect of snowballing towards more. Some of those efforts kept going long after invention and implementation. Such was the expanse of a past effort that only recently is being retired. I’ve evolved in these responsibilities towards documenting and creating paperless forms with associated workflows to trim the administrative times allotted towards some member-facing and internal quality behaviors. Continue reading →
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Tuning the CIO
Tuning aspects of the CIO position into temporary, effective leadership Looking back at a recent project, part of the analysis of the work came in the form of looking at what Avanceé has accomplish to date. In some respects, the strategy and organizational work can be boiled down to the activities of an information office. CIO definition via Wikipedia: “The Chief Information Officer of an organization is responsible for a number of roles. Continue reading →
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Simplicity Then Forward
Staring with simplifying as identifying how forward In the past weeks, Avanceé has had conversations with companies having trouble identifying how to take their next steps. This isn’t an unfamiliar track when prospects of growth are more certain, or market forces push companies to pay attention to disruptive behaviors which ripple into their context. Still, identifying what to do, versus just knowing something has to be done is the challenge. For those who had reached out to Avanceé, the onus was simple: ingest as much as possible about the stressors, and then listen for what isn’t being taken in. Continue reading →
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