January 26, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

For the most part, keeping the links list to 3-5 items has proven to be pretty hard this week as there has been a bit more which caught the interest and attention of Avanceé: End of Watch at The Verge The Useless Concept of ‘Calories’ at Medium How to Turn Our Smartphones into Everyday, Hardware Wallets at Medium Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access via The New Stack Continue reading →

January 23, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

Often, we would like to think that doing an analysis, reinvesting in the mission/vision, or even deploying a new technology/tool will allow us to capture some sense of the newness of innovation. We are more or less grasping at straws, looking for a meaning in what we are doing which will ressonate with our core publics better, or will increase the width and depth of what we offer to others. A part of the fractals within such spaces could be called design thinking - an approach to look for and appreciate the design, not just the process or the technology which drives those innovative processes. Continue reading →

January 19, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

This week’s links of interest and contemplation: Nintendo Labo In Which a Neural Network Learns to Tell Knock-Knock Jokes HockeyViz CES 2018: Real Advances, Real Progress, Real Questions Continue reading →

January 16, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

Missed on Tuesday’s big post due to activites & focuses going elsewhere. But here’s a key theme: tools we use shape the way we shape our worlds. Many times, we don’t realize the misapplication of a tool or its resulting behavior until something grevious happens (Hawaii nuclear alert for instance). Other times, we engage in some aspect of sharping our world, but end up needing to bend to tools, methods, or behaviors which have not caught up to us (tweet earlier on voice-augmented artifacts for productivity tools). Continue reading →

January 12, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

Some links which have stood out this week: Turning Design Mockups Into Code With Deep Learning Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens The Upside to America’s Gadget Infatuation Continue reading →

January 9, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

If Avanceé sounds like aspects of design thinking, that’s deliberate. To invite out-of-the-box perspectives into “business as we know it” settings, you have to often ask the questions which will reshape your grounding. Continue reading →

January 5, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

Every few weeks we’ll share some links to pieces which point towards some POV that enables, challenges, or speaks to work we’ve managed to process. Here’s the first set of these links (at some point, we’ll put a formal name to them): 95 Crypto Theses for 2018 @ Medium Some Predictions for 2018 by Stowe Boyd Competitng with BigCo: 2018 Edition by Steven Sinofsky Continue reading →

January 3, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

Avanceé is a deliberate effort to help successful product teams figure out what’s next. It isn’t so much making existing products or projects efficient, but taking those existing items and looking at them from a context well outside of what’s been profitable and established. This will lead us down some interesting roads - many of which haven’t been cut or paved yet. And still, these are travels products and teams will want to take in order to continue forward in this changing world. Continue reading →

January 2, 2018

Avanceé.Agency

Avanceé is a new organization - one part design consultanty, another part inventor’s factory - where we empower relationships through being out-of-the-box by design and function. Birthed from its founder’s restlessness with the safety of the status quo in design and business processes, Avanceé aims to take design to its logical extremes of changing the converstation from “what do we do” to “this is why we do.” What happens from here will simply push life forward - in every shape beyond the box that looks like. Continue reading →