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    Designing for Data creation, moving beyond Data driven Design

    Being data-driven has become a synonym for being new-age. The best thing about data and its analytics is that it can show us what people do on their own. But what it doesn’t tell us much about is the context, motivations, and intent behind the data to make it useful enough. We explore how design can inform the process of collecting and creating data that can help in finding insights about user behavior, and how product designers can leverage this phenomenal dynamic between data and design to create compelling experiences....

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    Healthcare – Marketing Innovation at the forefront

    COVID-19 has largely sped up the digital transformation of healthcare and boosted innovation in how patients can receive and consume care. While challenges came unprecedented, this time continues to spell a phase of massive transformation and growth for the industry. ...

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    Experience entertainment 2.0

    Big shifts and rejigs are in process across the entire entertainment value chain. While the closure of public entertainment options is largely increasing the bargaining power for streaming sites, it is also creating a longer-term shift in consumer behavior and sentiments.  Opportunities abound in a time of crisis – how the industry aggregates user attention through high engagement experiences will determine what the future of entertainment will hold....

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    Digital‌ ‌for‌ ‌Finance‌ ‌-‌ ‌A‌ ‌Covid‌ ‌Advantage‌

    The need for the digitization of the financial services sector has been apparent well before the pandemic with Fintech’s clearly indicating what is possible for competitive advantage. With COVID- 19 accelerating a digital path creation of customers, we look at how this transformation can spell out a more resilient and futuristic strategy for its various stakeholders. ...

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    Design for anyone to learn anything, anywhere, anytime

    Covid-19 has changed the way we live. It is now prompting us to rethink how we learn. How learning can be enabled for individuals and how learning institutions need to redesign their models of engagement and delivery. This transition from physical to digital is accelerating inquiries into what learning needs to be imparted, how learning is universally accessed, delivered, and assessed which leads to true shifts in thinking and behaviors. ...

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    Go digital, or go dark – Learning for Enterprise

    Many businesses are experiencing devastating financial consequences from the pandemic. Past recessions show that controlling costs by improving operational efficiency—a task for which digital solutions are perfectly suited—is more effective in sustaining businesses through financial turbulence than traditional cost-cutting measures alone.  ...

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    What does the History & evolution of interaction design tell us about designing for digital? | Part 3

    The future of user experience isn’t constrained to a screen. Ubiquitous computing would become the next frontier with the pervasive incorporation of computing into human habitats — cars, home appliances, furniture, clothing, and so forth. We explore the possibilities of interaction design for the future....

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    What does the History & evolution of interaction design tell us about designing for digital? | Part 2

    Interactive digital products respond to human input and change their own content/behavior based on that input. The most fundamental principles of interaction design can be traced back to 4000 BC to the prehistoric Chinese philosophy of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is about spatially arranging objects in relation to the energy flow. Practically, being about arrangement of your surroundings in the most harmonious, optimal, and user-friendly way and covering everything from layout and colors to materials and framework. The end goal remains the same as about creating a user-friendly intuitive experience. We explore the history of interaction design across the decades....

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    What does the History & evolution of interaction design tell us about designing for digital? | Part 1

    Too many digital products are hard to use. In a world with a pandemic, where most of our interactions and engagements with others are going to be digital, what does it take to make these digital interactions seamless, meaningful, and engaging? We get into a sneak-peak into the history of interaction design and how it stands to evolve and shape the future of our experiences....

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    Luxury with Digital: A way forward

    What image comes to your mind when you think ‘Luxury’? If you are thinking about your last luxury good purchases or luxury vacation experience, you might associate luxury with timelessness, grandeur, aesthetics, personalization, exclusivity etc. Now, for a moment consider experiencing the same in your next digital purchase, as you maneuver through your next digital application. Does this even qualify to exist?...

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    Labyrinth through a history of Digital Iconography: From 1980s to 2010s | Part 4

    Icons have always been found highly useful in limited digital environments and in diagrams, maps and other forms of visual communication. As a visual shorthand, it can label, inform, and aid navigation quickly and effectively in minimal space. At Think Design, we stepped back to discover how icons have been used from the earliest desktop days – in a pursuit to build on our current understanding, looking to appreciate and learn from the past, and look at the future informed by a lens of insights....

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    Labyrinth through a history of Digital Iconography: From 1980s to 2010s | Part 3

    Icons have always been found highly useful in limited digital environments and in diagrams, maps and other forms of visual communication. As a visual shorthand, it can label, inform, and aid navigation quickly and effectively in minimal space. At Think Design, we stepped back to discover how icons have been used from the earliest desktop days – in a pursuit to build on our current understanding, looking to appreciate and learn from the past, and look at the future informed by a lens of insights....

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    Labyrinth through a history of Digital Iconography: From 1980s to 2010s | Part 2

    Icons have always been found highly useful in limited digital environments and in diagrams, maps and other forms of visual communication. As a visual shorthand, it can label, inform, and aid navigation quickly and effectively in minimal space. At Think Design, we stepped back to discover how icons have been used from the earliest desktop days – in a pursuit to build on our current understanding, looking to appreciate and learn from the past, and look at the future informed by a lens of insights....

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    Labyrinth through a history of Digital Iconography: From 1980s to 2010s | Part 1

    Icons have always been found highly useful in limited digital environments and in diagrams, maps and other forms of visual communication. As a visual shorthand, it can label, inform, and aid navigation quickly and effectively in minimal space. At Think Design, we stepped back to discover how icons have been used from the earliest desktop days – in a pursuit to build on our current understanding, looking to appreciate and learn from the past, and look at the future informed by a lens of insights....

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    Reinvent‌ ‌measurement‌ ‌strategy‌ ‌for‌ ‌the‌ ‌new‌ ‌normal‌

    The reach of the pandemic is compelling business leaders to reinvent their offerings, services and products. Knowing how one is performing becomes crucial, as much as staying mindful of both the short term and long term impact of one’s decisions. Reconsidering your measurement strategy enables evaluation of what needs to be done – to remain sustainable and relevant when change is unprecedented....

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    Conducting stakeholder interviews: 12 Golden Rules

    As a User Researcher at ekino, I have often started a UX design project with an immersion phase with our clients. This first step allows our teams to fully understand the objectives, the players, the stakes and the constraints underlying their mission. To do this, we take part in stakeholder interviews....

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    Yes, you can conduct them remotely: Approaches to Remote Design Research

    A user-focused approach to design research has always aided the process of product development through creating objective results based on understanding how users think, interact and engage with a product or service....

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    Clustering Datasets: How to discover your order in the chaos?

    Data has a lot of untapped potential. However, a dataset that is not classified or grouped does not create meaning for the users. The most important thing to make the data meaningful is to organize the information in a way that the user will easily access and understand. We explore the value of clustering data and how it can unfold patterns that hold a promising key to solving our most complex problems – from the prediction of dangerous earthquake zones to identifying frauds....

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    The importance of taking a proactive approach to Website Content Accessibility Guidelines

    As companies continue to bring unique and innovative digital solutions to the market, it’s imperative they take the necessary steps to become WCAG 2.0 compliant. With 1 in 4 adults living with a disability in the US, companies have an opportunity to be proactive in their approach and execution of accessibility as opposed to reactive. The benefits in doing so include; cost savings, avoiding discrimination and lawsuits, targeting a wider audience, and improving SEO (Search Engine Optimization), to name a few. ...

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    How to create personas driven by data

    We use personas to guide the designing of websites, marketing campaigns, mobile apps, and many other contemporary experiences. Once we launch, we gauge the success of our creations for these archetype user groups. And eventually, we create feedback loops that allow us to improve our creations using the perspective of real users. ...

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    COVID- 19: 5 Sites we recommend for the Data Designer

    Data visualizations are required to make complex information easier to understand and effectuate intuitive actions as responses ....

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    Utilizing behavior data strategically to influence better CX

    All interactions that a person has with a brand, makes for the experience a customer relates to the brand with. In times when a customers’ journey is encompassing several touchpoints and interactions, with an ever-increasing demand for personalization across, customer behavioral data is becoming an asset to form a basis for gaining clear customer knowledge. ...

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    Making the most of Behavioral Data

    Understanding human behavior has been of crucial importance to developmental, organizational and social psychologists to share important insights while we live and work with humans in different social contexts. However behavioral analysis has recently forayed as an advancement into business analytics revealing pertinent business insights regarding consumers and users. ...

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    Making Remote Design teams happen

    An important element of a designer’s life is to constantly think about innovative workarounds to challenges their customers face. Design thinking here is not just a methodology but an entire attitude of shifting our focus from reacting to constructive and collaborative responsiveness. ...

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    Empower your decisions through Data Storytelling

    We are at the  threshold of a culture where data-driven decision making and data-driven organizations will become a common phenomenon. But how reliable, expedient and impactful are these decisions? As we explore the promise of data storytelling, we also inquire how critical can this be in helping us make decisions, which are both meaningful and actionable. ...

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    How to carry out remote design workshops

    Workshops remove participants from their everyday contexts and place them in a context that provokes reflection and innovation. But how to promote this evocation in the context where all participants have joined in virtually, separated by physical distances? ...

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    Design becomes learnable: Experience Design in the age of AI

    It is often thought that once a good design is made it needs to be learned by the user. The digital age is posing an opportunity for the existence of a different kind of design – where the design learns about the user behavior and modifies itself....

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    How to create smarter CXO Dashboards?

    The last decade saw an emergence of data-management functions and chief data officers (CDOs) finding ground – spelling out a clear urgency of managing and discovering through data, as a vital to any company’s success. Executive data dashboards inundated the market with a promise of providing business intelligence to the C-suite executives. Leaders no longer simply gathered a rearview-mirror look at company data but were also offered a window into the future. ...

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    Do’s and don’ts for Dashboard Design

    Dashboards are a display of essential, actionable information. Dashboard users perform tasks and make decisions based on this information. A dashboard should display the data it contains appropriately in order to support the user in doing the right action at the right time. Oftentimes the space on a dashboard is limited and the data it displays is complex. So how to design a dashboard that allows users to quickly understand all the necessary information? In this article we will list a few best practices to keep in mind when designing dashboards. ...

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    CX Design Vs. UX Design

    Over the past years concepts like Customer Experience Design (CX) and User Experience Design (UX) have become increasingly relevant. Oftentimes CX design and UX design are used as interchangeable concepts, which can be confusing and lead to misunderstandings. So what are we talking about when we are talking about UX and CX? Are the two concepts worlds apart or are UX and CX more like synonyms? Tomato tomato? Let’s clarify! ...

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    The Future with Voice Experiences

    We are living in times where we are increasingly surrounded by voice assistants, voice ads, voice notifications, voice search and voice messaging to name a few. But we know that the time for voice has come when we see toddlers and teenagers picking up our phones and saying: ‘OK Google’ what is lego, really? ...

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    Power of interconnectivity and IoT

    In the last two decades, the power of interconnectivity has spawned many innovations with it. In this article, we explore the concept of interconnectivity as a precursor to connect the world better in the near future. ...

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    Reasoning: The synapse between critical thinking and design thinking

    Thinking critically and the approach of reasoning itself, can become a precursor to an innovative solution for the problem proposed at hand. Designers have long employed different methods of reasoning to create the most relevant and innovative solution for their customers. ...

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    The tricky equation between UX and Time

    For centuries, humans have pondered upon the mysteries of time. Philosophers, scientists, artists have postulated theories, designed experiments and created art to explain the eternal conundrum of time. But beyond the various theories that lie before us, have we ever stepped out to understand how to leverage time and its various properties to influence our day to day life and experiences? ...

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    How to design a Media player?

    As users are increasingly consuming entertainment on the go, it is of no doubt that designing a good media player ensures a good user experience. In this article, we explore the history of media players over time and our recommendations to design a good media player. ...

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    What’s wrong with broadcast UX?

    Is there anything called broadcast UX (at all)? I had been meaning to talk about it for a while now; and I got an opportunity to capture comparable images last weekend (while all top 5 news channels were showing exactly the same content)....

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    UCD Vs. Design Thinking

    Businesses, governments, educational and social institutions alike are asking some common big questions today. How can we navigate the disruptive forces of technology and globalism and create viable solutions which allow us to respond to rapid change? How can these solutions cater to the development of both individuals and societies in general? ...

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    How Do I Determine Which KPIs To Use?

    KPI’s help one measure their progress towards goals and navigate their journey. As an organization, envisioning to drive impact through your work and growing your business, KPI’s can be your ready reckoner to enable the right checks and balances in place. ...

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    Increasing focus of EdTech companies on UI, UX, Design and Digital trends

    It’s true that you have to keep in mind a wide range of characteristics that impact the design of all educational products, but it is inevitable for companies to have a key focus on the importance of the blend of design and digital trends to create products with an edge. ...

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    Gamification in education: Why, What and How

    There is no doubt that gamification is a concept that has quite penetrated the education industry. In this article, you will read why, what and how about gamification in education and some fundamental concepts. ...

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    Three types of Dashboards

    Types of dashboards: Is it possible to classify dashboards into their types?

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    How can UX revitalize the Financial Services sector?

    The turn of the decade has shown a change in how people and institutions are interacting with money.  With an advent of rapidly advancing technologies in the fray, an era of the informed consumer has been embarked, with evolving expectations and a changing regulatory landscape, also clawing its way to disrupt the most traditional sector of our economy. ...

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    20 Product performance metrics you should not miss

    What if you designed a set of KPI’s to track your product’s performance and instead of giving you insights to improve, it turned out to be a mindless chase of numbers without giving a clear understanding of your product’s performance? Read on to discover our 20 Product performance metrics that will help you to assess how your product based business is doing. ...

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    Design in the age of digitization: The next agenda for industry 4.0

    At OSRAM’s Berlin plant of manufacturing xenon lamps, more and more employees are sharing about their improved abilities to carry out their tasks faster and more efficiently with greater precision using an app on their mobile devices. The ticket manager (this new-digital application), which gives them their work assignments and keeps them constantly up to date on the status of their machines, is moving the industry towards creating an ecosystem of enhanced communication, collaboration and mobility. ...

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    Four types of death and how to avoid them?

    In the last few months, I had travelled extensively and the memories I have are those of my connections with the people I met. I’m very lucky to have met entrepreneurs, executives, designers, thinkers, friends, family and many of those who were part of my journeys. Manifestations of my thoughts on meeting these people would be in the form of several notes, blogs and articles (published and unpublished). This is one such manifestation. ...

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    Data driven design: Truth vs. Hype

    So, you heard about data-driven design somewhere or you’re already practicing it? This too, is a rather newer practice much like UX design itself and has evolved only during the last 5 years. I for one, do not rely totally on it and I rely on many other research methods in addition to this. I’d rather say, I don’t place my bet totally on it because it could be dangerous. Here’s why. ...

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    How much should you spend on your MVP?

    What a stupid question! Can there be an objective answer to it?
    I was asking myself this question and I went into reflection and introspection modes and there came a few answers. Ofcourse, there can’t be a definite/ specific number that can magically be applied to all projects, but there could be methods to arrive at this number. I went on my quest to find out a framework that could help. Let’s explore that here… ...

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    Fundamental concepts of MVP

    Minimum Viable Product: Does it ring a bell? A decade ago, I didn’t hear this as much in my circles… fast forward by a decade and we seem to be living in a MVP world, literally. But before we jump and conclude that MVP is the future of ‘whatever’, let’s understand a bit about the origins and a few fundamental concepts of MVP. ...

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    How to run a Service Design Workshop?

    In this article, I’ll be speaking about how to run a service design workshop and a few tips and tricks to make it successful. You can read about the concept of service design and why you should practice service design here. ...

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    AI Powered Services: A Disruptor Around the Corner

    Services have come a long way in the last two decades: From human enabled, personal and intelligent to what we know as services today: self-serviced, cloud hosted and technology powered services. The question I want to raise here is: With the penetration of AI, will those services become bot enabled, personal and intelligent?...

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