How Architech Gave Back During Digital For Good 2020
While every business needs to turn a profit, the most successful companies also transcend the bottom line by serving the community in ways that reflect their higher purpose.
Maximizing Value Through Usability Testing
If digital transformation is done correctly, there are five words the people behind such initiatives should never have to hear: “Why doesn’t this thing work?” The “thing” could be a mobile app offered to customers, a content management system used by employees on the back
Is Conversation Design Right For You(r) Users?
We need to ensure that a conversation interface will actually be easier to use for our audience, taking into consideration their context of use and accessibility needs.
A Design System: So Much More Than A Component Library
Over the last few years a new element has gained traction in the world of digital development: the ‘Design System’. “A Design System is a collection of reusable…
Technology For All: What does this mean for Charities?
It was December 2018 when I was talking with my coworker and future teammate Saeed Alam about his past experience at Capital One’s Digital for Good (formally Gift the Code).
Design Ethics Took Center Stage At Ari Agency’s 7th Annual UX Mixer
Design Ethics – perhaps the biggest buzzword tearing its way through the Design community. For good reason, as it underpins how we [should] think about products and services…
#movethedial Global Summit: Going All In
“Let’s increase the participation and leadership of all women in tech.” It’s a pretty straightforward statement, and it’s only one layer of #movethedial’s mission to move the…
Understanding The Role UX Has In Cloud Development
Challenges of Integrated UX Conversations like “Hey, have you used this new app? It’s amazing!” are quite common these days. Every day we are using various applications spanning across different platforms. User experience design (UX) is revamping the application with an aim to ensure customer
UX Design and Research: The Science Behind the Process
As designers, we spend a lot of time coming up with solutions that will move people to action. In this blog, we exploring transferable skills that can be leveraged in the design strategy process to streamline the research process and strengthen client work.
Introducing: Architech Masterclass
Learning never goes out of style.
The Benefits of Hands-On Clients
We believe that by involving the client early and often, we end up with a better outcome and allows us to create the right product, faster.
Responsive vs Adaptive Web Design For UI/UX
Responsive Design is outdated. Adaptive Design is labour intensive. Is there a better solution?
Key Takeaways from IN FLUX: Service Design Canada Conference
Some of our strategists and designers touch on what they found most valuable at this year’s Service Design Canada conference.
How Many Designers Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
Key takeaways from CanUX – an event created for people who want to learn and share their expertise about user experience.
How Design Thinking is Fueled by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
We recently helped a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) use machine intelligence to inform the design of an entirely new system. During our analysis we used the data to understand if there were predictive qualities in the numbers.
Prototyping BIG Digital Systems: Pen & Paper Prevail
Have you ever thought about designing a really big digital system? Like, really big?