Ever wonder what makes Smashing Ideas so smashing? Our people! We sat down with Katy Harrison, Designer, to talk shop, what the role of designers could be in a world when Artificial Intelligence becomes mainstream, the correlation between value creation and value propositions, and why she just can’t resist the urge to stop what she’s doing and
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By Lulu Xiao, Senior Strategist I am a zealous advocate of design thinking and a passionate believer of user research. I love testing with users and listening to their feedback. I can’t help but get jazzed anytime I get to learn from them. However, I rarely take what research participants tell me at face value.
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By Kevin Swann, Strategist Reality technology—technologies that create immersive virtual environments, digitally augment the existing environment, or mix digital and real environments so that they interact—is all the rage. Think VR, AR, and MR. And though these technologies have existed in one way or another for a few decades, they’re only recently making the switch
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By Kevin Swann, Strategist Learning to work together effectively is one of the most difficult parts of partnering with a new client, or if you’re on the client side, an agency. Like developers and designers, clients and agencies have different capabilities, concerns, and points-of-view that can make working together frustrating if they’re not taken into
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Wonder what makes Smashing Ideas so smashing? Our people! We sat down with Yuka Lipsey, Senior Producer, to talk shop, about how she helps run one of Smashing’s largest international clients, her inside tips on effective cross-functional team management, as well as her summer plans to explore castles in Japan. You help run one of Smashing’s
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