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. …

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. …

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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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! …

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? …