Cognition Clash in the IoT SXSW16
Thank you to everyone who attended our (Karl Smith and Thom Heslop) talk at SXSW16, it’s the start of a long road into a really complex and contextual problem. But being silent in the crowd as the King walks by…
#Cognition #Clash in The #Internet of #Things
I’m speaking at SXSW Interactive 2016 on Cognition Clash in The Internet of Things, if your in Austin, TX let me know? The IoT is the next great opportunity for business enterprises to engage with customers. However there is no unified…
The #IoT an #interactive landscape without #visual #interfaces
I should say at the beginning this is one inception of the IoT, which may or may not be confirmed by products or more importantly by human adoption. The foundation for this thinking goes back to a notion of the…
Career and Clients
Karl Smith is a highly competent, personable, creative and motivated person with a keen insight and definition ability. He is a critical thinker and able to rapidly discover the essence of problems then define, communicate, create buy-in and deliver end…
To all the friends, I will see later
This song really touched my heart and made me think of all the friends who have not made it this far, especially the 18 who died on Pan Am Flight 103. Your never forgotten, hardly lived, but you were good…
20 Cool Things Google Search Can Do
1. Play “Atari Breakout”(Google Images) Go to Google Images, type “Atari Breakout”, hit the Search button, wait for a second for the game to start. 2. Play Pacman Type “Pacman” and click Search. Click to start playing the game. 3. Play…
#SXSW #Submission #Cognition #Clash in The #Internet of #Things
Description The Internet of Things is the next great opportunity for commerce to engage with business enterprises. However there is no unified approach to the mental load between physical interaction, mental interaction and digital interaction. This cognitive landscape is inhabited…
UCD2015 Conference Speakers Humanity in Digital Landscapes
UCD2015 Conference 23rd & 24th October, Deans Mews, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. We are delighted to confirm… [Keynote] The Joys and Sorrows of the Digital World: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Digital Landscapes Patrick Jordan, Consultant Business Psychologist [Keynote] Intelligence Everywhere: the…
French Onion Soup
I spent 30 years looking for the best French Onion Soup in the world. Well I finally found it in Zurich at Mère Catherine. I should of course explain the search and the experiences that took me on this journey….
#Customer #desire leads #disruptive #innovation
A great deal of effort is being spent on customer experience and user experience that misses the point, experience is about desire, not process or fulfilment. Desire drives behaviour Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) proposed the concept of psychological hedonism, which asserts that the…
Founding Wipro Digital
Avinash Rao, Karl A L Smith, Matt Burgess and Andy Coghlan founded Wipro Digital in 2013 at the request of the Wipro Technologies CEO T.K. Kurien. Creating the Wipro Digital Proposition Creating the core proposition was done by create a…
UX ROI
Every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return. This is gained by spending on UX not making things look pretty, it’s not graphics its making the product, service or information system meet the business…
Recruiters requesting UX portfolio breach IPR
Recruiters requesting a UX portfolio can cause a breach of Intellectual Property Rights So I posted this as an update on LinkedIn I got some great responses from people who read their contracts and got a whole load of really…
#UX #Designer waste of money for #Clients
How do you design experience UXD? You can design a framework or architecture but the experience in UX is in someone’s mind and in their emotions, if you design people experience its a crime against humanity UX research or UX…
Can real #UX be done in a #global #consultancy?
As with Agile, UX has suffered fools having a go and failing. Focusing on titles, roles, activities or outputs misses the essential process that has not been applied by qualified, able and intelligent people who are able to deliver. No…
#UX and #Development cannot exist in the same #Agile workstream
“UX and Development cannot exist in the same Agile workstream” might sound like an outlandish claim but if you fully understand, it’s obvious. Forcing things to work as with the picture above is not a good idea. Can UX be…
Silverlight ends in 2021 but Banks still selecting it
I remember being in the discussion at a state owned investment bank when the discussion was being had about which front-end language should be used on their new system interfaces and they choose Silverlight. This choice was known with the…
#UI and #UX are not #interchangeable
It’s just the most embarrassing thing to hear intelligent people say UI/UX. It makes professional people cringe because your left wondering should you care that they are exposing ignorance or just let them get on with sounding like an idiot….
Interview with a #User #Experience #Guru part 2
User Experience (UX) why is it important? User experience is so important because it enables client companies to get to the heart of their relationship with their customers without the marketing glamor that hides how they really feel and what…
Being asked the #UX #Point of view #POV exposes #ignorance
The UX point of view is; we have no point of view that’s the point of UX (in fact it’s been created that way) any person who can offer a UX point of view (without actual user and business perspective)…
What is a #User in #Professional #UX?
What is a User in Professional UX? Below is a simple guide to find out if you have users involved in your project. A person who is part (employed or service team) of a contracted consultancy – IS NOT A USER A person…
An interview with a #User #Experience #Guru
User Experience (UX) looks pretty simple can anyone do it? No it’s a skill and knowledge based activity, I look for communicators with formal science qualifications (BSc, MSc or PhD), standards knowledge, creativity and genius level intelligence. Wow you need…
#Strategic and #lean #thinking in private investment and asset portfolio participants part 2
There are several types of on boarding that relate to both business and investors structure and size, their specific purpose for investing and their local regulatory constraints. The Main Participants I will be focusing on four main participants in this…
HTTP Error Code 418 I’m a teapot
1998 humor very much appeals even now. This code was defined in 1998 as one the IETF April Fools’ jokes, in rfc2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol.