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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  • Links for 14 Sept

    Clouds and rain seem to make something of a calming moment for many. For others, clouds and rain portend a change. Whether things are going to not be as they were, or that the change which was going to come isn’t. As much as we sometimes see the former, its the latter to which its harder to figure out when under the clouds and not on top of them. With that, here are this week’s links: Continue reading →

  • Normal Until Disaster

    Natural disasters often spring thoughts of what works and doesn’t work about the normal processes and tools we utilize. Needing the movement of electrons to power processes might make some things visible, but also endears us to segments of living which are not as easy to keep grounded. Continue reading →

  • Livability As Productivity

    Avanceé has accidentally been speaking towards two roads, design as normative to computing and productivity’s redefinition. Most of this is tied to some simple and straightforward observations across several industries. Yet, even these two tracks point to a better or more perfect definition of the “living outside of the box” kind of innovation: livability. There’s something interesting about many USA/NA conversations about areas such as transportation, education, etc. — a lot of it centers around “what does it mean to be productive? Continue reading →

  • Links for 7 Sept

    There’s this stretch of life which happens right at the end of summer when many folks start picking up the pace. An anxiousness to the end of the year? Catching up and getting back on pace because of summer breaks? Or, maybe something a bit more is happening. Whatever it is, there’s a cause for a quickening. That means a quick review here, and a launch into more for later. Continue reading →

  • Experiments Amore

    Going to experiment again tomorrow… been playing w/potential tweak to service offerings. Tomorrow will be a good measure of whether that net can be cast fully Continue reading →

  • Asking Better UX Questions

    Stumbled across a discussion about user experience (UX) and a new tool from Microsoft called Sketch2Code the other week. Had this to offer: It seems w/AI & ML we need to stop thinking about computers as “process/calc.” Rather, how they enable us to be better, while doing computing better. We sketch, they code. Can that turn into a positive for all? That’s the kind of questions I think UX should be trying to answer Continue reading →

  • Links for 31 Aug

    There’s something of a flood coming. At least, depending on the genre you are watching, listening to, or consumed by there’s something coming. Now, what we are doing with it, might your company be trying a different route rather than the same, or how you might be deciding to ignore it are the other questions. Developing something better than a response, while being aware of what is or isn’t relevant. Data is a flood… until it isn’t. Continue reading →

  • MicroMobility Podcast

    Really interesting… never met @asymco yet this is maybe the 3rd time having noticed him syncing/pivoting to a similar line of thought & work… Listening forward to this micromobility podcast series… Our 1st thought: “What will be the highway system/McD’s of #micromobility” More to come in a future long-form Continue reading →

  • Design, Design Systems, & Patterns

    “Design” is a recognized topic in many corporate circles. The value of what design does for business has become the next and loudest crest of conversation. Some of the tones of this conversation are muted — design speaks to something “felt” but also “known.” Some of those tones are louder — for example, should some types of designers be credentialed, the dark patterns noticed after design is done, etc.. In all respects, the conversation is good to have. Continue reading →

  • Links for 24 Aug

    It has been something of a flashback in seeing how many have made their way over to MicroBlog. Sure, Twitter acting out has a lot to do with that, but there’s probably something a tick under the surface with a lot of social groups and social networks which grow over a particular size or gain some kind of celebrity/global affluence. There’s always someone and something mining a path just a bit differently… until others also figure out the new road and make it their own also. Continue reading →