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The tyranny of chatbots — or why the future is multimodal

With chatbots we are confining ourselves again to command line user interfaces of the 1980s. Instead, the future of GenAI is multimodal.

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05.03.2025

Designing disruptive GenAI services

The emergence of Generative AI changes how we design and develop services. GenAI will improve the efficiency of the design and development…

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19.03.2024

Train yourself, not the model: a designer’s view on language models

This post discusses our experiences in designing healthcare applications using Large Language Models such as GPT3 .

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10.02.2023

Let’s get AI in the designer’s toolbox

Most of the designer’s work is to reuse existing design patterns. An experienced designer knows tens if not hundreds of patterns and…

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09.02.2023

AI is a solution in search of a problem

“Can you find some good use for AI or GPT3?” How do we approach technology focused design, which is very different from user-centered…

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07.02.2023

Is your innovation project too human-centric?

If your innovation process emphasizes one of the three lenses of innovation over the others, it is likely to fail spectacularly.

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17.11.2022

Let the designers design

Is your design project stuck? If you don’t know where to start solving a problem, start sketching.

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17.11.2022

Everything a designer needs to know about business

If you want to increase your impact as a designer in the company, you must understand the basics of business. It is essential in order to…

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21.05.2022

Designer’s four roles in agile

Design has four distinctive roles in agile software development. You must ensure that you have proper resources for each of them.

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21.01.2022

The theory of metaphors, or why the Metaverse will fail

In this post, I’ll discuss the theory of realistic physical metaphors and why you should avoid them.

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11.01.2022

Design the Plan B first to unleash your creativity

Pressure has a detrimental effect on creativity. In this post I discuss an a way for avoiding stress and unleashing creativity in UX…

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04.01.2022

Designer’s Guide to Working with Developers

Seamless cooperation with designers and developers is essential for getting high quality software out there, on time and on budget. In this…

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28.01.2021

Do you know how it feels like to be a minority?

Psychological safety is the key for well-being, creativity, and productivity in the workplace. Only genuinely equal members of the team…

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07.11.2018

Weeknote #584: Saving the World

This week was dominated by the IPCC report on climate change published last week Monday. It states that we must dramatically reduce our…

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31.10.2018

Introducing new technology to the market

Why do some technologies succeed and some fail to get traction? When you invest in new technology, you have different strategies on how to…

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02.10.2018

If you want to stay in business, ask this question

If you want your company to stay relevant in the future, ask yourself this simple question:

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12.09.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part VII: The new design process in brief

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. In the previous parts of this series of blog posts I have…

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21.08.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part VI: Going agile

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. In the previous parts of this series of blog posts I have…

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17.07.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part V: Tools for the new design process

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. Earlier in this series of blog posts I have so far shown…

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13.07.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part IV: The new design process

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. In this series of blog posts I have so far shown why, and…

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11.06.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part III: Ingredients of the new design process

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. In the previous posts I’ve described the many ways in which…

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05.06.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part II: What is wrong with the design thinking process

In the first part of this blog post series I introduced the current dominant design process and claimed how it is time to renew it. Now…

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05.06.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part I: Introduction

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. The way we design is already much more advanced and agile…

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05.06.2018

Re-thinking design thinking part I: Introduction

The current design thinking process is rigid, slow and focuses on wrong things. The way we design is already much more advanced and agile…

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05.06.2018

The guy with the dream job

I didn’t go to Slush 2016. I was close though, because I had agreed to meet a Slush visitor, a guy from Toyota’s future projects…

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09.08.2017

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