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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  • Avanceé Reads for 27 June 25 🔗

    At some point should probably look at doing some type of integration between Muse and Micro.Blog. Mainly to make these weekly items roll forward a bit easier. But also because there is a little bit more value in the connections that are made, when they come a little more readily. Almost like having this published right at the top of the week, and just updated as the week goes on. Then, at the end of the week, right around this time, to do something like lock it in place. Continue reading →

  • 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 →

  • Avanceé Reads for 20 June 25 🔗

    Hanging out with this month’s Sales Effectiveness Roundtable and realizing a few bits about following-up we’ve been slipping on. Off to improve a few touch points, while also elevating some of the tooling we’ve been working through. Also published: Working with Refreshed Tools (Dia Browser) Continue reading →

  • 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 →

  • Avanceé Reads for 14 June 25 🔗

    Coming out of a week where taking a chance on interfaces seems to bring out the best and the worst of us. Whether we are interfacing with our mobile devices or interfacing with regulations/law-enforcement, they’re just seems to be a lot pushing and pulling for authenticity and authority. Reminds me a little bit of the conversations around data federation. Also published: WWDC 25 Quick Thought on iPadOS Continue reading →

  • 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 →

  • Avanceé Reads for 6 June 25 🔗

    Things that stand out this week: Architects. Strategic Partners. Where thinking still matters. Where decisions shape markets. Where you sit at the table — not serve coffee to it …Here’s the truth bomb nobody wants to say out loud: BMW and Audi are paying for strategy — and getting templates… Clarity indeed. Also published: Reviewing Past Fractional Clarity Clarity of Costs Continue reading →

  • 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 →