For more than 100 years, IBM has been one of the prominent names among computing giants, dominating the early global market with technical and service superiority. They forged a path of innovation leading to Nobel Prizes, lucrative defense contracts, and they even helped to put a man on the moon. — However, IBM’s success was also the result of a progressive corporate culture well ahead of its time, implemented by Thomas J. Watson, Jr. when he took the helm of IBM from his father in 1952, and grew IBM on the premise that “good design is good business.”

You hear that? That’s the sound of another startup that just failed. And another. And another. Another. Another. Another. Another. This perpetual sound of failure equates to the implosion of 90% of all startups!! Read that again because it’s quite a sobering statistic, not to mention the fact that 10%…

This year we’ll see cutting edge design across devices becoming the norm, as well as trends towards dark palettes and rich and interactive…

Today I’ll dive into the Phase 2 Design phase of reimagining the Amazon.com web experience utilizing Prime, where I’ll start with…

COMPANY // AMAZON PRODUCT / SERVICE // AMAZON.COM WEBSITE WITH PRIME Amazon has been the perennial leader in online e-commerce for decades, but competitors like Walmart and Alibaba are catching up, and now they’re now facing a new breed of competition from Shopify and Instacart that provide a distributed and personalized e-commerce experiences to thousands of small retailers. Even with this…

If you read The Agile Movement Drives Innovation then you would know about the power of Agile to help organizations master continuous change while flourishing in a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Many organizations that embrace Agile also utilize Human-Centered Design to better understand their customer…

Let’s face it, the United States Congress is an absolute shitshow and we’re merely spectators. Debate is dead. Partisan fighting is now sport. Rarely do we even see legislation passed, let alone legislation passed with bi-partisan support. …

GoCanvas reached out and asked me to review the App Builder with a focus on new users since they have a 75% abandonment rate, and here’s…

In the first blog, we explored why us humans play as well as learned about game mechanics, or the motivations of getting people to play. This post will provide you with actual game mechanic ideas divided into three main categories.