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Feb 4, 2020

Are You Cut Out For Co-Leadership?

Co-leaders from left to right: Björn Dederichs, Volker von Seggern, Conny Kinateder, Michael Krenkler, Christian Geldmacher, and Dina Glatzel By Esther Blankenship, SAP In the television sitcoms of the 1960’s and 70’s, the father went off to his 9 to 5 job in a suit while the mother busied herself…

Leadership

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Are You Cut Out For Co-Leadership?
Are You Cut Out For Co-Leadership?
Leadership

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Modus

·Nov 25, 2019

7 A.I. Terms Every Designer Should Know

As artificial intelligence grows more prevalent, designers need to be able to talk the talk — As artificial intelligence creeps into ever more aspects of the things we design, user experience professionals should be able to confidently follow and discuss the big tech advances of our times. …

Artificial Intelligence

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7 A.I. Terms Every Designer Should Know
7 A.I. Terms Every Designer Should Know
Artificial Intelligence

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Modus

·Sep 16, 2019

Why You Should Consider a Career in Enterprise UX

Its huge scale and far-reaching impact make it the ultimate challenge — In 2005, YouTube was born, Google had just acquired Android, Yahoo was a popular search engine, and there was no Netflix, Twitter, or Spotify. In that same year, I was asked to build up and manage my first visual design team. …

Design

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Why You Should Consider a Career in Enterprise UX
Why You Should Consider a Career in Enterprise UX
Design

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Experience Matters

·May 7, 2019

SAP Fiori — How It Started and Where It’s Going

SAP Fiori has come a long way since its introduction to the marketplace over half a decade ago. Because of this journey, there are some misconceptions out there about what SAP Fiori is exactly. …

UX

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SAP Fiori — How It Started and Where It’s Going
SAP Fiori — How It Started and Where It’s Going
UX

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Experience Matters

·Dec 27, 2018

An AI Menu for Your Next Lunch Gathering

When you think of southern Spain, you probably think hot and dry. Although that is mostly accurate, the watery marches of the lower Guadalquivir river are in fact home to the largest rice fields on the Iberian Peninsula. Not only is its cultivation an engine of the local economy, the…

Artificial Intelligence

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An AI Menu for Your Next Lunch Gathering
An AI Menu for Your Next Lunch Gathering
Artificial Intelligence

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Experience Matters

·Aug 10, 2018

Pushing the Boundaries of Storytelling

One of the challenges of storytelling is to make the abstract more interesting, more personal, more real. There are many ways to make a story connect: some are traditional, whereas others are unorthodox. The designers, hackers, engineers, film makers, architects, and business developers at ART+COM tell stories, but in a…

Virtual Reality

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Pushing the Boundaries of Storytelling
Pushing the Boundaries of Storytelling
Virtual Reality

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Experience Matters

·Mar 23, 2018

Designing Big Games

Big-budget, technically sophisticated video games like Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon and Just Dance have made Ubisoft one of the largest publicly-traded game companies in the world. But what does high-action, blockbuster fun have to do with SAP? A big SAP Design Talk Matthew Tomkinson, UX Director at Ubisoft, was the latest…

Gaming

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Designing Big Games
Designing Big Games
Gaming

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Experience Matters

·Jul 4, 2017

Daimler: Design Beyond the Car

What car will you want five years from today? If you’re not sure, that’s ok; it’s not your job to predict the future. But it is the job of car designers. As director of Digital Design & Design Beyond the Car at Daimler, Klaus Frenzel and his team research about…

User Experience

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Design Beyond the Car
Design Beyond the Car
User Experience

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Experience Matters

·Mar 6, 2017

Familiar yet Surprising

Can you think of a product that more people on the planet know than Coca-Cola? The famous script logo and contour-shaped iconic bottle are so well known that one might even wonder if they need a design department at all! …

Marketing

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Familiar yet Surprising
Familiar yet Surprising
Marketing

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Experience Matters

·Nov 15, 2016

“Wow” Is the Benchmark

Watching a Cirque du Soleil® performance, even a short clip on a smartphone screen, is simply magical. How do they “wow” viewers over and over again? …

Cirque Du Soleil

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“Wow” Is the Benchmark
“Wow” Is the Benchmark
Cirque Du Soleil

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