Conducting stakeholder interviews: 12 Golden Rules

Stakeholder Interview Mastery Graphic

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. Laetitia Pouilly –   […]

Making Remote Design teams happen

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. In times when Global Inc. is reconsidering how to reorganize work in the […]

How to carry out remote design workshops

Remote Design Workshops: Crafting Collaborative Strategies from Afar.

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?  As leaders worldwide prepare for a different way of working together, we explore a new reality of […]

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

Revolutionary Industry 4.0 technology illustration.

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 […]

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 […]

How to run a Service Design Workshop?

Service Design Workshop: Collaborative Innovation Visual

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. Hari Nallan – March 2018 There are a plenty of frameworks and thoughts on the […]

Why to fail early and how?

I came across the concept of failing early a few years back when I understood the several facets of Design Thinking. A decade later, today, this is catching up like wildfire across established technology companies and start-ups alike. Let us get an understanding of why and how. Hari Nallan – July 2017 Challenges Associated with […]