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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  • Notable Reads for 20 Mar 🔗

    Haven’t published the “Notable Reads” series at all this year. Part of that being a bit less disciplined in the end of week contemplation. Part of that wondering if that’s the right format for sharing longer bits of content here. Not sure. But, today was full. So how about a share from what’s just been read today? An Epidemic Graphing Calculator Read at 7:02 PM Three Unexpected Things I’ve Learned About UX Management Read at 3:43 PM China Rescinds Penalty for Late Doctor Who Warned About Coronavirus - WSJ Read at 6:08 AM A family trip from Switzerland to China with a solar powered Armadillo electric cargo bike Read at 6:01 AM Staying Connected – Painfully Hopeful Read at 5:39 AM When Your Body Says No | Outside Online Read at 11:27 PM Stop trying to solve traffic and start building great places Read at 9:54 PM TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) - YouTube Read at 8:23 PM End-user programming Read at 3:52 PM This was compiled and formatted using the previously shared Avanceé Reads Apple Shortcut. Continue reading →

  • Gravel Bike Stroll 🕶 📹

    Posting a bit different than the usual, a video of one of my latest bike rides. Some call it “gravel,” and some prefer the term “all-road.” Both work, because both happened during this roll. Gravel Bike Stroll Per the usual, Snap’s Spectacles are the tool of choice for recording. There are a few reasons for this. But, the best reason is simply the versatility of memory-eyes which are in the same position as organic ones. Continue reading →

  • Leap

    As appropriate a day as any other to speak on how to move forward. Leap days could probably be better termed corrective days if one looks not just at the reason for their being, but also the analogy to an application. One doesn’t just leap into the next thing. But, over time, debt and deposit create conditions for a transformation. Once that transformation happens, there’s a new normal. Maybe similar set of conditions or context, but the normal is actually different. Continue reading →

  • Strategies of Long-Term Goals

    Breaking down how an ant eats an elephant On a current project, a comment was made, “you are playing chess while others are playing checkers.” It continues to stick, in part because there was some truth to it. But, also because in the design space, having an accessible long term goal seems to be the “highly wanted” grail of many once they get to a certain point. Before then, it’s a lot more about being reactive, majoring in the minors, “swimming in the weeds,” and many other apt analogies. Continue reading →

  • Founding Principles

    Where a rogue comment about USA history invokes computational evolutions A friend mentioned about the changing ideals the USA has been undergoing, and it was something like another ember to a festering thought about computing — specifically, the tablet-based productivity which has marked the past decade or so of my work. This wasn’t the only kindling for such a thought, there are (at present) a number of unfinished written pieces pointing to similar. Continue reading →

  • Evolving the iPad Workspace

    Perhaps what was admired as a teen drives adulthood after all This could probsbly be considered a response to @brooksreview.net’s 13 Jan member journal; and it’s also a “state of the workspace” piece When fall of 2019 rolled around without an announcement of a new iPad Pro, I was left at something of a crossroads. Having been waiting earnestly for the next evolution in iPads — to push my own visualization and implementation of computing — I was left somewhat disappointed. Continue reading →

  • From A Future

    Things seem to be a little bit slow in terms of the new publishing here, but the fact of the matter is that activities happening elsewhere that speaks into why this place matters. Design thinking, or more honestly, design mentorship seems to be a key topic in terms of professional development and organizational maturity. Some of that comes from the interactions where I am running into people who are both new to professional spaces, and those people who see that some spaces need a more personal touch — humane touch as it relates to creating intentionally, ethical, beautiful products and services. Continue reading →

  • Hearing Sight

    Casting new patterns for a new year The past two years, Avanceé has been something of an experiment, and another part a package. The experiment: to put into a business model, an approach to design and process which elevates individuals and companies from “do what they’ve seen modeled” to “invent and do what they’ve imagined.” Experiments are hard — especially this one where it’s also got to be a package. It has been the “package” bit which has been hardest to clarify for Avanceé. Continue reading →

  • Notable Reads for 14 Dec 🔗

    This time last week, didn’t intend on writing another one of these composed link lists. But, it’s a behavior now associated with a slice of reflecting on the week. There’s a whole behavior forming — in part because of the fall/winter stealing light and warmer temperatures from cycling. A major part of this is now leveraging technologies which move slower yet further (an iPad Mini 5, an Apple Watch Series 3, Snap’s Spectacles or Vue glasses). Continue reading →

  • Inking As Post

    written with Tactilis Scribe Continue reading →