TEDx Reset – Why Robots Need To Dream
Peter Fossick, of Factotum was recently invited to talk at TEDx Reset about ‘Why Robots Need to Dream’. We’ve posted a link to the video…
DevOps meet DesignOps
Factotum’s Pete Fossick recently spoke at the Service Design Global Conference in Madrid where he discussed service design, agility and the emergent field of design…
Factotum’s Pete Fossick Talks ‘Service Design’
In the latest issue of Touchpoint, Editor-in-Chief Jesse Grimes caught up with me to learn about the opportunities afforded to me as a service designer…
Service Design Playbooks
In an ever more complex world, with seismic shifts in the way we work and live, there is increasing demand for new approaches to the…
The Many Different Flavours of Design Thinking
Design Thinking has been around for a while and many design groups, consultancies and organisations have developed their own ‘flavour’ of design thinking to meet…
UX Design News
- When to use games for learning UX design August 16, 2018My students sketching ideas during the UX Pictionary game at Center Centre.A few years ago, I facilitated a storytelling game for a UX meetup in Philadelphia. The goal of the meetup was for attendees to play the game so they could learn how to use it at their jobs.During the game, one team decided to use goats […]Jessica Ivins
- Provotypes: how making annoying things can help you design better August 15, 2018Provotypes are an interesting — and extremely fun — way of making designs better by first making the most unusable or provocative versions of them. In this blog post, I explain how and why this technique offers much more than just good laughs.Let’s face it: most likely, your test users are not designers.That is why asking concrete questions such as […]Anna Haverinen
- Stop ‘delivering’ software with Agile — it doesn’t work August 15, 2018Clickbait-y title or not — i’ve got some stern truths for you.Photo by Jason Rosewell on UnsplashLet me start by asking you a question.Are you delivering software with Agile methods?Yes? Great! I imagine you’re doing the following?Do you work in some kind of set phases, either in sprints that last anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks, or work continuously?Are you […]James Whitman