Pathway #17. Insight
Category£3m to fund early stage design innovation
Design Foundations is a funding programme offering £3m to support early stage investment in design. Announced at a London event on 17th January 2017, it is the first Innovate UK funding of its kind with an explicitly horizontal remit, intended to …
Design Talk 22. Agile marketing; Roland Smart, VP, Social & Community Marketing, Oracle
Agile has become the de-facto approach to rapid, user-centred product development. However, it is not just for coders. In fact, Agile is at its most effective when product management and marketing work in the same rhythm. In this episode, hosts…
Video: Rachel Liu’s #mexsession on cultural nuance & user research in Chinese education
Recorded at MEX, October 2016
Intro to user research in 4 videos: better interviews to generative techniques
Rory Southworth’s video series of 4 ‘lightening’ sessions on user research starts with the basics of how user insights drive better design decisions and goes on to explain a range of techniques for delving deeper into user motivations.
Each of …
User story: the daughters, Minecraft and aeroplane mode
British children are enjoying their half-term holiday this week. Without the school run, the roads are quieter in the mornings. The trains from my station on the Norfolk coast, however, are busier with families heading to London and Cambridge for …
Technology for an ageing congregation
This advertisement for a local congregation to avail themselves of ‘Rob the computer expert’s’ knowledge intrigues me on a number of levels. On the one hand, it implies we live in an age where access to technology is something under the purview o…
User story: over 60 and reading under the covers
They were a party of five ladies, all attired in the sort of sensible, outdoor clothing one acquires from advertisements in the back pages of a Sunday supplement. All were over 60 and their leisurely, mid-morning stop at a countryside cafe suggest…
Showing users how they shaped an outcome
I opened up Google Drive this morning and there it was: a little pop-up telling me the ‘Incoming’ menu item had been changed to ‘Shared with me’. ‘Incoming’ had been a minor irritation for me personally, and I know of several others who have expe…