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20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023

Azure Magazine

In this lecture, she speaks about designing and building in the Senegalese context, with references to its climate, culture, traditions and unique “concrete modernity.” Mboup will address working with biomaterials, passive design strategies, her various cultural projects, and her research and collaborations.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

Wave 3 — The Strategy Wave The Strategy Wave will see research operate at a business level, and the work will consume the outputs of Product Wave research. Its grounding frames are consolidated sets of user needs that extend into organizational composition and the market landscape. The Strategy Wave is one of gameplay.

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Where does the impetus for change come from?

UX Collective

Not every company is at a “burning platform” moment but history is becoming more and more littered with companies who failed because they couldn’t transform their business to address the problems they faced, whether from disruptive market forces, technology, or for a myriad of other reasons. Like Starbucks, Blockbuster was ubiquitous.

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A creative’s guide on starting a company

UX Collective

I ended up staying close to 11 years, an eternity by today’s standard, particularly in the US job market. I met him and his partner John Boiler first at a meeting for Xbox, a client his agency 72andsunny and AKQA that I was working for shared from 2005 or 2006 for multiple years. Through the course of 20+ years, I only quit twice.

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Product lessons from the history of HBO

UX Collective

While convenient at the time, this prevented the company from establishing a relationship with its final users , which eventually became an issue during the market shift to streaming ?—?they Of course, it doesn’t tell you how to get there (the “dynamics”), but I usually find they provide a good starting point for a strategy discussion.