What if we could all be design thinkers?

Yep! That is possible. We would be doing what we are ding today in our different teams within the delivery pipeline, except that: We would be thinking more about the customer than our egos or what we believe to be smart; We would meet with real users (customers) – who have bought is using or […]

Design thinking is about the customer, not about design for its own sake

Yep! Design thinking may have been originally gifted to the world by industrial design firm Ideo*, **, today design thinking is as much about the design as solution architecture is about designing structures. Design thinking is an iterative process, that saves businesses from themselves and lets them interact with their customers before drawing the first […]

UX thought leaders: Olu’s list

In no particular order IDEO –  https://www.ideo.com/ Interaction Design – https://www.interaction-design.org/literature Swathy Ranjendran – https://www.swathyrajendran.com/ Usman Abiola – https://www.crunchbase.com/person/usman-abiola

Burna walking in path paved by Fela Anikulapo Kuti?

Like i said most of Burna’s hits are songs he sampled, educate yourself pic.twitter.com/Pl6DMyEXVs — prettyboy$po (@Kinyels) February 12, 2020   Artists copy, great artists steal – Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson)

UX

UX is the envelope with which products are delivered. Excellent UX is the package in which customer needs are met, on time, in place, and as expected. UX is how the customer experiences the product or service. The entire journey from discovery to consumption to post consumption. Brilliant UX includes brilliant UI, making the product […]

DiscourseWednesday: Attaining technological singularity & the brands of the future

Technological Singularity – is a hypothetical point in the future when technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization (Wikipedia). Many envisage this time as one that will be similar to those depicted in the terminator movies (sadly this author didn’t see any of those movies and this may partly be responsible […]

Projects and Project Management

For many years, I have had to repeatedly answer questions on what projects are and what the disciplined practice of project management is and I thought to write a quick and short primer here. This is no way exhaustive, but aimed at answering some of the questions many have about the discipline and possible help […]