Perfect Harmony – The Critical Role of User Experience Design
MAN AND MACHINE IN PERFECT HARMONY Two universal, but unspoken, threads ran through Gartner’s recently published Top Ten Technology Trends. Every trend mentioned by Gartner shares a fundamental requirement if it’s to make an impact – the technology has to be usable and it has…
Why Your Product Owners Need User Experience: 4 Rules for a Successful Product Redesign
Often Saggezza is asked to create a unifying experience across multiple legacy enterprise applications. Several approaches can be taken depending on your company’s experience and comfort level with product design and development. This poses an interesting challenge due to the simple fact that many companies…
The Objects Between Big Data and UX
As a proponent of user-centered UX design, I am always on the lookout for new takes on the design process that may play a role in allowing the systems that we design to be more user friendly. Sophia Voychehovski’s article on Object-Oriented UX struck me…
Merchant Portal User Interface Development
OUR CLIENT Fortune 500 digital payments technology company. BUSINESS CHALLENGE Our Client’s digital wallet is available for thousands of merchants to integrate into their ecommerce stores, allowing shoppers a faster, safer way to make purchases. Prior to working with Saggezza our client had an existing merchant…
Breaking Up is Hard To Do
Even a business with a long history needs to reinvent itself. Saggezza supports a successful spin-off for a global provider of integrated communications. BACKGROUND As the landscape of digital media continues to evolve at an almost daily pace, Saggezza’s client, a leading global provider…
A Day in the Life of the CCM Team
C-C-M. Anyone know what that stands for? Perform a simple Google search and you might retrieve a few pages for the College Conservatory of Music. No, not even close. How about Convergent Capital Management? Sounds interesting enough, but still not right. CCM Hockey? Awesome, but…
The 6 Second Glance
It’s somewhat alarming to think that the years you’ve spent obtaining a higher education and the countless hours of hard work and dedication that you’ve put into your career thus far is often summarized on a 1 or 2 page Microsoft Word document, better known…
How to ‘Culture Fit’ In
The day comes for many of us where we make the decision to part ways with our job to seek out new adventures. There are some people that embrace this change, but for many, it can be downright terrifying. When making a job change, things…
Flawless Face-to-Face Interviewing Tips
You’ve just spent the last three hours meeting with Senior Leadership, Managers and HR answering some variation of what seems to be the same question over and over again. Once the interviews have come to completion, you thank each interviewer with a bright smile, a…
Maintaining Standards During Crunch Time
It’s the morning before a late afternoon pitch of a new web application and you (the only front-end developer) have been presented with a last minute list of visual changes that need to be completed ASAP for this meeting to make sure the presentation goes…