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When you’re designing for a new medium such as voice interface, it’s helpful to have all the concise guidance in one place. To to solve this problem, we created voiceguidelines.clearleft.com.

Ben Sauer

With the rise of Digital Services, the boundaries between the disciplines of Service Design and UX Design–and the role of the designer–are becoming increasingly blurred.

Sebastien Chung

Estimation should be easy, useful and quick for teams to do. This is a tried and tested technique we use on projects.

Clare Kirkland

We’ve been reflecting on our fantastic Clearleft Presents workshop with the king of design sprints, and all round great guy, Jake Knapp.

James Box

How do you begin a conversation about Artificial Intelligence with a multi-disciplinary group?

Ellen de Vries

The first day at the Artificial Intelligence Retreat was a day of divergence, brain dumping and download. The floor is now covered with index cards, and the workshop space walls are blossoming with prophecies, gradients, book lists and clusters of new vocabularies.

Ellen de Vries

We want you to become an undercover innovator - this is the first of two articles giving tips on how to kick-start design-led innovation in your organisation.

Chris How

Our next Clearleft Presents event is packed with knowledge and insights that you can’t afford to not to know. Intrigued? Get the low-down from workshop leader and renowned raconteur, Mike Monteiro.

Rowena Price

What happens when a group of 15 Artificial Intelligence experts head to a remote hotel in the western Norwegian mountains?

Ellen de Vries

Are there ever winners in the war between PowerPoints and Post-it notes? Or is it about picking your battles?

Andy Budd

With just over a month to go until our second annual Leading Design conference, I’ve taken time to reflect on how the original idea for the event came about, and share a rundown of what you lucky Leading Design attendees can expect this time round…

Andy Budd

One thing we see time and again with corporate clients is the huge gulf between the leadership’s vision for the company, and what they are actually able to deliver. Fortunately this is something design, and especially design thinking, can help with.

Andy Budd

The rational economist would like to think that most of us would choose £100 next month over £90 today. Yet study after study has shown that humans crave instant gratification - is it any wonder that many companies prioritise quarterly revenue over longer term investments?

Andy Budd

Establishing leadership is effectively the same as asking the question “How are we going to make decisions and resolve any conflicts that may come up?”. Traditionally, this often means the buck stopping with one individual. But instead of thinking of one accountable person, can you benefit from putting various people ‘in charge’ of aspects of your collaboration?

Ellen de Vries

When large organisations attempt to transform themselves, they try to do it wholesale. This often leads to significant push-back, with the more risk-averse departments slowing or derailing the process entirely. Here’s how a multi-modal approach can help.

Andy Budd

Ever felt like you were churning out paperwork like one of those monkeys at typewriters in the Simpsons? Here’s why the devil sometimes is the detail, and how simple walkthroughs are a useful but often underrated communication tool.

Ben Sauer