By Thandi Guilherme, User Experience Consultant at Freethinking Most of us are practising some form of Agile today. Whether you’re following a “lean” process of design/build, test and iterate or …
From skeuomorphic, to flat, to futuristic
By Chanetsa Mukahanana, UI Designer at Freethinking As digital design trends continue to detach us from the physical world, what does this mean in a uniquely South African context? For …
Finding the balance
By Claire Barnard, Consultant at Freethinking At the beginning of each year, I always resolve to find balance in my life. And each year, this resolution seems to elude me. …
Ensuring Agile Design and Development work in harmony
By Warwick Gill, Principal Consultant at Freethinking I recently attended the Johannesburg chapter of World Information Architecture Day 2017. I was struck by one particular presentation focused on how Agile …
Artificial Intelligence: are you gearing up for the world’s last arms race?
By Dean Addison, Principal Consultant at Freethinking What could be the last arms race has already begun (in case you missed it!) It started quietly, humbly and no doubt with …
Let’s venture together into the unknown
By Julie Robinson, Consultant at Freethinking Imagine for a moment that you are an astronaut. You have been tasked with launching a Rocketship into the ether of space. You assume …
The situation has changed (again)
By Iain Campbell, Principal Consultant at Freethinking Time to conduct a Digital Impact Assessment? … Digital is disrupting work and the workforce, and the traditional role of change management in …
Why Design Thinking?
By Clare Redpath, UX Designer at Freethinking “Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically …
Design Thinking: getting to the heart of the matter
By Derrick Cooks At Freethinking, we invest significant energy in understanding what Design Thinking truly means for our clients, and how it can help us to better understand and address …
Three Qualities of a great UX Designer
By Tracey Wolstenholme, UX Designer at Freethinking “It takes no skills to make something crappy. Skills are only required to make something great.” – Jared Spool, Founder at User Interface …
