What can the retail experience learn from sushi restaurants, Aaron's very own "Convenience Threshold Formula", symbiotic relationships, and Paul from 2009?

Shopping - A Tale of Two Retails

How can French cooking methods improve the safety of your car? Why can’t you just settle on what movie to watch on Netflix? Why do you have to sign a credit card receipt for a pack of gum? This is Ideate. A podcast about the user experience of items we use every day. Hosted by The Smyth Group design team: Hiromi, Nikita, Aaron, Paul and Rob.

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What do we want to get out of our experience with hospitals and doctors? How do connected devices play into each of our individual healthcare experiences? And how can we use machine learning to make sense of a massive amount of data?

11: Healthcare 

Come with us on a journey across seven states to find out how exploration is improving photos and overcoming prejudice.

10: Vacation 

It’s not uncommon for us to ignore the impact of poor UX on our daily routine. A poorly designed app might make us miss a bus. A poorly designed door might make us look foolish. Often the effort required to right the wrong outweighs the cost. But in the case of education, a poorly designed experience has left millions of students disenfranchised, the nation with $1.5 Trillion in growing student loan debt, and employers with under-qualified candidates in the workforce. In this episode, we speak with four influencers who are fighting the battle on all fronts. In Discovery, they describe a problem that stretches from primary school, thru college, and right into the workplace. In Definition, we’ll isolate the players and their challenges. And finally, in Ideation, we’ll look at some ways to improve the UX of education in the future.

Shopping - A Tale of Two Retails

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