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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  • Affordances and Sustainable Product Interfaces

    Posted in the Muse Discord (5 June 24) Every time I click the three dots (usually to change the title or do the connector) and launch into the object versus get the menu,I wonder “what would Muse have evolved to if it didn’t have pointer/mouse affordances like this as a first interaction, but as a toggle-able feature.” Would this been as discoverable if it were a tap-hold menu (borrowing from iPadOS’s press-hold-wiggle that happens with icons on the Home Screen or the platform’s better understood (yet sometimes still hard to find) tap-hold menu? Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 7 June 24 🔗

    Taking a few steps forwards. Also hit the writing stick a bit more than usual. Also published: Thinking Matter Expert Fluidity in Adapting Continue reading →

  • Fluidity in Adapting

    I often use the phrase “ahead and behind at the same time’ to describe what some have describe as my posture with tech/connected living. It is something of a backhanded comment to myself, hewn from the days when I wrote for BargainPDA/Brighthand. It means a feeling of being in front of a change, and also behind well after it was adopted with all the bugs cleaned up, and UX settled. Continue reading →

  • Thinking Matter Expert

    Chatting w/a developer-manager and a data analyst about my Humane AiPin, and one of the phrases which came to the convo was that of a “thinking matter expert.” A spin on subject-matter-expert, and contextual to the sharpening of thinking which some of us prefer to see LLMs, GPTs, etc utilized towards. We’d even chatted some in comparing it to the “thought leader” phrasing. “Thinking matter expert” feels similar and altogether different. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 31 May 24 🔗

    A week of connections summed up well in one of them: “it doesn’t matter what you do or what you promote, the real value comes when you sit down with one another and actually exchange value for value.“ Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 24 May 24

    It can be a fun demonstration of experiments when they work. Connecting the dots between the technologies and behaviors that are coming to the technologies and behaviors that we are used to something of an adventure. It’s also an adventure when it doesn’t work. Credibility as well as accessibility gets called into play. Connecting the dots is an accessibility issue just as much as it is a marketing one. Continue reading →

  • Frameworks for Professional Development

    Many years back, and ironically while working in a space to improve the experience in using application management tools, delivered a presentation to a few groups of recruiters, then designers, based on a rubric I’d been working on. Beyond the Slideshow, circa 2018 After one of those presentations, felt as if that rubric became solid enough of a foundation to use in leadership roles, and with many who had a difficult time in quantifying the impact of focusing on design experience to specific persons and contexts. Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 17 May 24 🔗

    Finding the connections amongst an increasingly resilient set of bushes. Or, just making sure that as we walk through these new connected paths, there’s some connection to those folks who attempted to walk these connections before. Also published OpenAI Announcement & Takeaway Continue reading →

  • OpenAI Announcment & Take Away

    Much about yesterday’s AI news was about OpenAI’s ChatGPT update to GPT-4o (omnimodal is what I’m hearing that means). And par the course, I used my Humane AiPin to get a summary update from the announcement. What’s important to take away from this - your tools are shifted (if you are in a space where you need to mix/remix/analyze data streams, aka knowledge work). You need to be more curious (like a data scientist) while also being more creative (pick your favorite medium, then it’s most generative artist). Continue reading →

  • Avanceé Reads for 10 May 24 🔗

    Things fare better when we are focused… but then again, entropy does have its way regardless of intention. Continue reading →