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  • Keeping Technology Change Human

    When we are at the forefront of so much change, it's easy to forget that other people around us find change more challenging. This article is a reminder to look beyond the code and processes, to consider how tech team actions can affect our users in emotional ways. It seeks to establish a few ways of thinking to help bring others along with us when working through technology change.

  • Strategies to Modernize, Maintain, and Future-Proof Systems

    The book Kill it with Fire by Marianne Bellotti provides strategies that organizations can use to modernize, maintain, and future-proof their systems. She suggests choosing strategies based on the organizational context, and defining what value you’re hoping to see from modernization.

  • Codefirst: The Future of UI Design

    User interface design has played a critical role in computing for decades. Flat and tactile design are current trends in application design. Voice user interfaces are emerging with Alexa, Siri, and Google. Augmented and virtual reality, and IoT lead to significant changes in designs. AI is poised to create significant changes by perfecting user interface designs.

  • Interview: When Technology and Design Collide, then Collude

    Does design shape technology or does technology shape design? How do these two disciplines work together, and move away from the traditional siloed approach? In this virtual panel Sam Gibson and Ben Melbourne discuss the importance of overcoming adversity between technologists and designers by offering tactical approaches to solving these common issues.

  • UX - Are you Doing it Yet?

    An estimated 70% of technology projects fail due to a lack of user adoption. Shouldn’t organizations understand their users and product as much as possible in order to prevent this from happening? Ted McCarthy explains how successful organizations emphasize and invest in UX, integrating it into their teams alongside product and engineering, and offers some useful tips along the way.

  • Business, Design, and Engineering: Developing Collaboration-Culture

    The collaboration of a company and its multidisciplinary units has never been more crucial than now. Everything we make today depends upon our ability to stay current, move nimbly, innovate, engage and delight. Those things are too difficult to achieve without cross-team collaboration.

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