One of the great weaknesses in the contemporary work-world is a shortage of critical thinking skills and an appreciation of how the insights of the great philosophers can enhance the daily lives of regular people. Philosophers are often derided for having their heads in the clouds, i practiced some of the things i learnt from…
Category: Creativity
Creativity – The Drivers, Inhibitors & The Downside
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all it’s students – Hector Berlios 1856 We should use our time wisely, it is a limited asset, and as we grow older it sort of becomes a privilege. Throughout history one can find great examples of disruption. Ideas that changed the world forever. Ideas that…
User Experience Design in 2017 & Beyond
As a User Experience Designer, a great deal of my efforts are spent on the intricacies and nuances of this niche area. ‘User Experience Design’ is arguably an output of imagination, and critical to growth in the Digital Era we live in. By evaluating the pulse of the design industry, it easy to see how the…
It’s Time to ‘Be a GameChanger’
Free your mind. It’s time to ‘Be a GameChanger’, it’s time to change the rules. Go beyond the norms. Not much will be gained in terms of innovation, if you live the life of a conformist. Every technology company in the world is striving for and fighting for innovation. In my opinion as a creative…
User Interface Design/Experience and Usability in the Middle East
(The context of this article is Usability and User Interface Design/Experience in digital products and services in the Middle East Region, specifically in Saudi Arabia. The content should not be taken as a science, but rather an opinion, from real working knowledge of design industry and know-how) Lately I have been working on a lot…
Why User Experience will Dominate in The Era of Digital Transformation
The pace of digitization is picking up at an unprecedented rate in the last 36 months. Every single day, around the world. Almost every single management professional of the tech industry is working on an RFP to digitize an existing industry or sector. Thousands of developers working on new apps and technologies, that have the potential…
Digital Marketing – Creative Solutions & Measurable Returns
Steve Jobs knew quite well that the Internet in general and the key-less SmartPhone in particular is going to change human behaviour & habits substantially and globally. That’s why he was a big backer of the Apple Store, iTunes, and the iPhone itself. It’s not a co-incidence trust me! – Farzan Chishti Marketing is no…
CXO: Chief Experience Officer – Design Thinking at C-Level
A ‘Chief Experience Officer’ is an individual who is responsible for the overall user experience (UX) of an organization and/or it’s projects. This position has arrived mostly due to a rapidly changing design and technology landscape, a by-product of digitization which requires good design thinking at the leadership and implementation level. It is a holistic and unifying field that blends user, business,…
Haptic Feedback – Innovation in User Experience
“I was training at BodyMasters, and my headphones were on, blasting out my regular dose of Trance music to keep me motivated, though the music sounded awesome, there was something strange, i couldn’t feel anything, other than the rough metal texture of the bar is was holding on to curling the weight” To me this…
Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ – A Renaissance MasterPiece
The Renaissance is still thought of as the rebirth of art. It is a scholarly accepted view that the Renaissance was one of the great creative periods of progressive development. One of the masterpieces of the Renaissance was The Last Supper, a late 15th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci and currently located in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy….
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