Is your company website still connecting with your audience?If you haven’t updated it in the past few years, the answer may be a resounding no. As user behaviors continue to shift, so too must your website. Here’s when and why you should consider a redesign. Understanding Your Audience: More Than Just Demographics It’s not enough […]
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Enhancing Color Blindness Accessibility: Using AI for Inclusive Data Visualization
Improving Color Blindness Accessibility with AI: Designing for All Vision Abilities There are so many times when I want to throw my phone across the room while working with AI. Things are going smoothly, and then, all of a sudden, it simply fails. There’s no backtracking to get it back on track; instead, it gets […]
Guide for Innovation Week 2: Research + Empathy
Hey gang, welcome back. Hopefully by now you’re really powering with your team and starting to feel the momentum of the process. Last week kicked things off with brainstorming and early research. Now, we’ll focus on confirming the direction, trusting your hunches, experimenting beyond your team, and seeking deeper empathy in your process. So let’s get started!
Week 1: Problem Immersion + Drawing Board
This week we’ll dig into the first of two sessions that we call Drawing Boards. In large part they’re exactly what they sound like: a starting place to gather the team and set the focus, built initially around the Problem Statement draft, and a place to keep referring to as the process progresses.
The 4-Week Guide for Digital Innovation
We’re here to help real people like you more easily understand what it takes to build innovative digital tools by doing a few simple things like putting people first, allowing space for collaboration, staying close to those experiencing the problems, and exploring new ways to generate ideas.
Problem Statements in Digital Innovation: The Importance of Asking the Right Question
It all starts with a problem. We’ve found it’s amazingly helpful to have a single statement that represents the nature of the problem, who’s experiencing it, and why it’s so important to solve. We have a simple template you can use, inspired by the ongoing work we do with our friends at IDEO.org.
Two innovation hacks you can implement immediately
My friend’s forehead was creased, his consternation visible at the intersection of his caved-in eyebrows. “I have to get out of this building to innovate. I can’t do it here. The technology, the dress code, the culture. It can’t get us where we need to go, and even if it could, it wouldn’t do it fast enough.”
How a simple list of emergent themes can save you time and money in digital innovation work
Emergent Themes tries to draw signal from all the beautiful innovation noise, that flurry of empathetic activity that characterizes innovation. Most importantly, these plain-language terms help us have a conversation to answer a key question: “What piece of this problem should we focus on first as we start prototyping?