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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  • Design Is More than What You See

    Feels weird to say this, but there seems to be something of a blind spot when it comes to the design industry. A vast majority of the conversation centers around what’s seen. And therefore technology and tools aren’t far behind. We talk about layers, button states, and even layout placements in terms of what’s seen. Yet, little to no attention is paid to the other senses. We notice that little-to-no attention when we look at devices like the Apple Watch. Continue reading →

  • Links for 9 Feb

    Welcome to Friday, and despite the higher-than usual amount of work, there’s still plenty of good writing which has happened to challenge and break-the-box of several perspectives. Here’s our links of the week: Teachers on Strike: Do We Still Need Them? Via SogetiLabs Automatiion is going to hit workers in three waves, and the first one is already here - Technology Review The House that Spied on Me What is Ambient Computing via Medium Do you have items worth featuring on our weekly links list, share to us via Twitter (@AvanceeAgency). Continue reading →

  • Looking Beyond the Horizon

    Generally, we look towards some unidentifable place beyond the horizon to set a goal. Some call it “moonshot” and others call it just reaching beyond the horizon. This isn’t risky. In fact its more or less the safe thing to do for any team or organization. The challenge therefore is easier to take on because there’s a sense of inevitability to the actions that will happen. If you take the small steps, then what comes next is as normal as the sun going up. Continue reading →

  • Links for 2 Feb

    If last week was a case of trying to pick the best from a large stack, this week is more like trying to find the best items where there’s been more or less an echo chamber in familiar and unfamiliar spaces. Nevertheless, we push forward: Kant Against Your Oculus Rift Interface Writing: Code for Humans The Napkin Disrupted: Meet Ink to Code, a Microsoft Garage Project Continue reading →

  • Misplaced Perceptions of User Experience

    There are many organizations, upon hearing the term “user experience” land on the perception of “finally getting a pleasing product in front of people.” And while the hope is indeed a correct one, the perception of the user experience professional to handle (and be adept) at everything from application development, to marketing, to organizational strategy, to project/product management is one where expectations end up having many fall short of those perceptions - UX eventually finding itself in the bucket of “things we wish we did well but don’t have the time/budget for. Continue reading →

  • Links for 26 Jan

    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 →

  • Going Beyond Design Thinking

    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 →

  • Links for 19 Jan

    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 →

  • Describing Avanceé’s Key Themes

    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 →

  • Links for 12 Jan

    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 →