Avanceé.Agency
Avanceé.Agency
Connecting strategy & leadership with novel/innovative technologies

Avancee is a micro-consulting platform delivering strategic guidance, tailored to the competency maturity of a user or team. Learn more

Services include:

  1. User Experience (UX) & Process/Service Design
  2. Process Research and Business Analysis
  3. Innovation Coaching (incl. Fractional Leadership)

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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 →

  • 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 →

  • Avanceé Reads for 30 May 25 🔗

    …In product development, everything is connected, and there are always tradeoffs and unintended consequences. Sometimes those tradeoffs are technical. Things can’t always be built because engineering decisions made long ago preclude certain new directions, or would lead to a lot of “tech debt,” which basically means a lot of stuff someone will inevitably have to go in and fix in order to do this new thing. If only everyone understood what Leah Reich stated so delicately in this piece. Continue reading →

  • 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 →

  • Avanceé Reads for 23 May 25 🔗

    Where does all of this behavior change end up taking us? Right now, many feel as if emerging tech has them waiting for an airplane to take off. For others, they’ve been on the tarmac directing or operating the support systems for such vehicles to take flight, but might be thinking they are the pilots and traffic controllers (misshaped perceptions perhaps). Where might you be in this scenario? Where should you be? Continue reading →

  • 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 →

  • Avanceé Reads for 16Mar 25 🔗

    Sharper and sharper we go. Either there’s focus or there’s features. Struggling with either just means sharpness is needed. The interview with/about Muse really highlights this. Also published: Video: How Muse Fits Avanceé’s Workflow A View of This Connected Time Continue reading →

  • A View of This Connected Time

    Many people have complex relationship with connected devices. I do not. Using these devices, and in many cases, seeing the positives and negatives at the same time, comes extremely easily. Of late, I’m looking at the space of AI devices. The Humane AiPin I called “a secretary” because of the way that I could manipulate audio responses and multiple notes to give me insight about topics and researching or people I am coming to converse with. Continue reading →

  • Video: How Muse Fits Avanceé’s Workflow

    Some weeks ago sat down with Adam Wulf, maintainer of the Muse app which you see used with the [Notable Reads posts] to talk about how Muse is used for Avanceé and a few other items. View the chat on YouTube Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 9 May 25 🔗

    From insightful discussions for small business leaders to discussing how Muse is used by Avanceé, it’s been a pretty intellectually stimulating week. Taking the time to ensure that some of those items have a place to settle, create a space to remix them into a canvas for upcoming opportunities. Also published: When Do We Get to Molding Continue reading →