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Product lessons from the history of HBO

UX Collective

But trying to be serious here, sandwiched between stories about Game of Thrones and The Sopranos, I found some exciting product anecdotes. This situation, of course, is a familiar challenge we still face today in entertainment services , with products relying too heavily on content having to face the dreaded “content treadmill” issue.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

The current wave is cresting, ready to wash over software design and product management. And third-wave research will reach even higher, moving into product and organizational strategy. There’s known value here, but no shared and understood model of how research work works in the product-sphere.

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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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A creative’s guide on starting a company

UX Collective

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. An industrial designer by trade, he spoke so eloquently in meetings about design, strategy, and business and I was always in awe. Let me explain.

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Where does the impetus for change come from?

UX Collective

Two years earlier, in 2005, while I was at frog, Blockbuster came to us and wanted to enhance their online presence and the race to parity was their priority. Also, their product was movies, yet look at how small the movie thumbnails appear, in contrast to the rest of the page? Design is not just what it looks like and feels like.

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2024: Is it liminal yet?

UX Collective

I will also suggest an alternative product that in its own and unique way brings us a liminal attitude and existential questions all the way from Italy: The “Umarell.” Where are the products that challenge us profoundly? This of course is much like many other tech products monitoring and analyzing our work without actually helping.