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The Art of Great Design Workshops: 5 Activities We Swear By
Say goodbye to awkward and clunky design workshops. Here are our tips to ensure your team leaves every workshop focused, inspired, and aligned.
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Blink articles, videos, podcasts, and events covering the latest in UX research, strategy, and design.
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Reimagining NASA.gov to Tell Science’s Most Important Stories
NASA released its updated website last month after two years of rigorous user experience research, strategy, and design in collaboration with Blink UX.
Article
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7 Ways To Improve Your Mobile Banking App
Your guide to creating a modernized mobile banking or investment app experience — based on our latest banking research.
Podcast
22 min
The CX Cast Part 2: Embedding CX Design at Avangrid
Blink and Avangrid continue their conversation about the role of design in creating quality experiences at Avangrid.
Article
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Designing Gender-Inclusive Customer Experiences: Tips and Resources
Want to design more inclusive products? Learn how, plus, get started with free resources as a guide.
Articles
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How Many Research Participants Do I Need For Sound Study Results?
Hint: It might be fewer than you think. Here’s how to select the right sample size based on your research goals.
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5 Reasons To Build a Design System—And How Your Team Will Benefit
Design systems are powerful for teams who want to save time and money in their design process. Here's why we love them, and how NASA used a Blink design system to unify its web experience.
10 min
The Art of Great Design Workshops: 5 Activities We Swear By
Say goodbye to awkward and clunky design workshops. Here are our tips to ensure your team leaves every workshop focused, inspired, and aligned.
4 min
Solving Digital Debt: How Blink Enhances EX in an AI-Driven Era
Digital debt impacts innovation, drains employee energy, and challenges organizational productivity. Could AI be the solution?
6 min
7 Ways To Improve Your Mobile Banking App
Your guide to creating a modernized mobile banking or investment app experience — based on our latest banking research.
14 min
Designing Gender-Inclusive Customer Experiences: Tips and Resources
Want to design more inclusive products? Learn how, plus, get started with free resources as a guide.
10 min
Customer Success Outcomes: Your Key to Breaking Down Data Silos
With multiple data sources, it can be hard to know which insights to trust and how to take action on what customers are saying. Connect your research findings with Customer Success Outcomes and act on the insights.
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CalmWave wins GeekWire Award for UX Design of the Year, presented by Blink
Learn more about CalmWave.
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How to Create Consistent Fintech Experiences With a Brand Ambassador Team
Want to improve your customers’ experience across all channels? Building a UX framework and cross-branch ambassador program can help. Here’s how to get started.
14 minutes
Three Reasons to Add Desk Research to Your Next Project
Secondary research, like desk research, is a powerful tool for practitioners to add to their research toolkits. Here’s why you should consider adding it to your next project.
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Delight Your Customers With Age Inclusive Design
Data shows that global populations are tipping the demographic scale toward adults over 65. With age-inclusive design, product adoption and reach could spread like wildfire.
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How to Harness the "Designer's Curse" for Your Next Design Review
As a UX designer, you most likely have a method for gathering design inspiration. Here's a step-by-step process for conducting a design review that leverages your inspiration-seeking habits and helps you consider strategy early in the design process.
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How Automation is Improving the Healthcare Customer Experience
Our tips for using automation to create healthcare designs that are efficient, personalized experiences that meet patient needs.
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Top Five UX Opportunities in Digital Health
Here are five key UX opportunity areas healthcare systems are looking at for improving the patient/provider experience.
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Personal Health Metrics and Good UX: Partners in Healthcare
When coupled with a good user experience, personal health apps and data can inspire positive behavioral or lifestyle changes.
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Improving the User Experience of Healthcare Provider Websites
Blink has worked with a variety of healthcare providers over the last several years to understand the users of their websites. The results of this work have been research-based recommendations and design solutions that address many common challenges. Today, we are publishing a whitepaper that summarizes the challenges providers face online, and how a research-based approach to user experience can help meet the needs of their patients and employees.
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Five Tips for Designing Better Conversational Interfaces
From chatbots to intelligent assistants, conversation interfaces are changing the way that people interact with their computers, and designers have a unique opportunity to shape this medium at the ground level. Like all emerging tech, best practices are still being developed, but here at Blink we’ve had the opportunity to design a few of our own and learned a lot along the way.
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How UX Can Help IoT Products, Part 2
In this follow-up we’ll be diving deeper into some of the specifics of what makes a great user experience for IoT products, focusing on the critical areas of onboarding, support, and security.
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How UX Can Help IoT Products, Part 1
Smart homes. IoT. Connected devices. VR. What happens when buzzy, emerging technologies begin to infiltrate the everyday? Will consumers face a frustrating gunfight-style showdown with new products, or will they discover a frictionless setup process and experience a product that enhances their life? It all depends on how much effort you put into UX.
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How We're Finding UX Design Inspiration in the Film Industry
As part of our employee "Lunch and Learn" series, we spoke with Hocus Pocus production designer Bill Sandell. Here are some highlights from our conversation and a few ideas for how you can find UX design inspiration in the film industry.
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The Benefits of Being a Design Driven Organization + How To Become One
Organizations that embrace evidence-driven design increase profits, retain customers, and align on business goals quicker than their engineering-led counterparts. This article will discuss what it means to be a design-led organization and how you can apply design in any industry.
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How Nudges in Design Can Effect Behavior Change
As UX strategists, we use nudges and other lessons from behavioral economics to help people make better decisions — typically without their noticing.
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The Hidden Benefit of Rage Clicks: How To Boost Your Site Performance
Learn how rage clicks can help you detect user frustration and make data-driven decisions to improve your site.
14 minutes
Conducting User Research and COVID-19
In collaboration with colleagues within and outside of Blink, plus a fair amount of experimenting at home, Chief Innovation Officer Kelly Franznick put together a set of protocols for a safe return to our user research labs.
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When Remote Research is the Best Choice (and How to Do it Right)
What do we mean by remote research? When is remote research the right choice? What are some tips for dealing with the challenges that come along with this approach?
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Better Together: User Research and Analytics
Incorporating analytics into UX processes and research methods can add value in many ways. Project teams should use a combination of different data types to consistently measure data (in the wild) about usability and user behavior.
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The Benefits of Recreating Physical Products and Spaces in the Lab
We often perform tests on digital devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and computers. However, there are times when we need to observe user behavior that extends beyond a screen – and this always excites us!
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Why You Should Treat Your Website Like a Product
Understanding your website as a product will set your company apart from competitors.
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Quick Testing of Accessibility for iOS Apps
There's an easy way to test how users will experience your designs on iPhone and iPad with accessibility features enabled.
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Target These Three Innate Needs to Improve User Engagement
We set design objectives for creating engaging products that will keep a user’s attention, encourage task completion, and be enjoyable to use. However, of those objectives, we find “enjoyable to use” the hardest to design for and measure. This is in large part because humans perceive experiences differently – what one person thinks is clever and clear, someone else may see as complex and opaque.
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How Wedding Planning Taught Me The Secret To Winning UX Clients
In just over two months I’m tying the knot. I’ve always considered myself a perfectionist and highly organized, which is why I opted to do all the planning myself and not hire a coordinator. Food, music, venue, photography, décor, invitations, that’s all me.
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The UX of Car2Go
A few of us here at Blink are big fans of Car2Go, the point-to-point carsharing service that operates the iconic blue and white SmartCars in several cities worldwide, including here in Seattle (you can typically find three or four outside our office on any given morning).
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Creativity, Collaboration & Confidentiality
So how do we get together and collaborate on ideas when a project is top secret? When only one person at Blink knows what the client is working on, and only a handful of employees at the client’s company even know what it is?
15 minutes
Why UberX is Blowing My UX Mind
Which brings me to UberX. I’ve been using this service a lot lately, both for work and personal transportation, and it’s blowing me away from a UX standpoint.
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Preparing for Takeoff: 5 Steps to Better Airline Apps
Some airline apps can truly help make travel a breeze, and others are a bit more turbulent. So what differentiates a great app from a mediocre one? Here are my five tips for success.
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28,000 Sounders Fans Enjoy New Loyalty Program & Website
We were thrilled when the Sounders approached Blink to help them design their new MatchPass loyalty program in late 2012. There were three major components to the project: 1. Conduct primary end-user research to learn what fans wanted in a Sounders loyalty program and 2. Design an intuitive and engaging website and 3. Conduct usability testing for the MatchPass website prototype.
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How to Improve CX and EX With a Total Experience Strategy
A TX business strategy can help companies increase employee experience and customer experience quickly and efficiently.
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What You Need to Know About Business-to-Employee User Experience
We answer the question, "What is B2E UX?" and discuss three reasons why adopting easy-to-use technology for your employees will enrich your company.
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Blink Pro Bono Program: Designing For Social Change
Is your organization tackling problems and topics that address society’s most pressing issues? We'd love to hear from you!
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Blink's 2022 DEI Progress Report
A look at how our DEI efforts came to life in the last year.
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How Improving Website Accessibility Will Positively Impact SEO
Accessible content leads to a more inclusive website, and by following web accessibility best practices, you can also improve search engine optimization (SEO).
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Designing for Mobility Impairments
I met with Blake, one of Blink’s assistive device specialists, to discuss the challenges of his mobility impairment and his tips for creating inclusive app and web designs.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Blink
These are our first steps toward cultivating a more equitable workplace for our employees, clients, and community.
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Workplace culture: How an evidence-based, data-driven approach produces thriving resu...
A positive company culture requires the same careful curation, management, and rigor as any other aspect of a business. At Blink, we consciously design our culture to ensure that employees have the structure and guidance they need to fully develop their skills and abilities for a happy and rewarding career.
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Prioritizing Accessibility in UX Research and Design
As we gear up for our Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) event on Thursday, May 20, 2021, learn how our UX teams are making accessibility a priority, and how your team can do the same.
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What Is the Impact of the Proposed Revisions to the W3C WAI?
Blink is looking forward to integrating version 3 into its existing accessibility practice as soon as it is formalized. All organizations interested in expanding accessibility on the web should welcome this latest addition from the W3C.
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Accessibility in the UX Industry and at Blink
Accessibility in the UX industry and at Blink In October studio manager Lynsey Lacher interviewed Joe Welinske, accessibility director and ConveyUX program manager for National Disability Awareness Month.
19 minutes
Digital Banking Trends and Challenges
Banks are bottom-line driven, so if you work in the banking or finance industry, you'll want to be aware of what the top digital banking transformation trends are, how to develop a mobile banking app, and what the future of the banking industry looks like.
15 minutes
The UX of Digital 3-D Interaction
With the emergence of virtual and augmented reality, we will have many more 3-D digital experiences available to us. Many of these upcoming 3-D experiences will be interactive, requiring the user to navigate a 3-D space. While it may take some time for these experiences to catch on and become pervasive, They will.
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Humans and The Risks of Automation
“How can we design systems to use the sophistication of human thinking and decision making, AND the complex computation power of machines to strike a healthy balance of automation?”
Videos
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Evidence-driven Design™
Our process for creating products and experiences people love.
3 min
Publix Case Study
Developing a strategy for online grocery shopping.
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Problems We Solve
Blink researchers and designers share what we do best.
2 min
JD Power Case Study
Creating a new online destination for car shopping.
3 min
Little Lotus Case Study
Developing a smart baby warmer for the U.S. market.
Podcasts
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Aug 20, 2023
38 Episodes
The People Behind The Progress
Conversations with the people who are making digital products and services more accessible.
May 30, 2023
34 min
Enhancing UX with Evidence-Based, User-Centric Design
Blink's Head of Design, Byron Baker, joins "There's A Device For That" to share his experience leading a team of design experts as they create user experiences that truly enhance the value and impact of devices.
Apr 11, 2023
21 min
The CX Cast Part 1: Building The CX Function at Avangrid
Blink’s Chief Design Office and Avangrid’s Head of CX and Digital Transformation join The CX Cast to share their experience building a CX function at Avangrid.
Apr 18, 2023
22 min
The CX Cast Part 2: Embedding CX Design at Avangrid
Blink and Avangrid continue their conversation about the role of design in creating quality experiences at Avangrid.
Events
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Feb 27, 2024
ConveyUX 2024
ConveyUX '24, the annual user experience conference by Blink UX, returns in person February 27-29. Join us in Seattle, WA!
Past
Sep 22, 2022
DEI in Design
Blink hosted a DEI in Design Virtual Roundtable on September 22, 2022, as part of San Diego Design Week (SDDW) presented by Mingei International Museum.
News
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Reimagining NASA.gov to Tell Science’s Most Important Stories
NASA released its updated website last month after two years of rigorous user experience research, strategy, and design in collaboration with Blink UX.
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Blink Named #3 Best Workplace
Blink ranked by Puget Sound Business Journal on its annual list of best midsize workplaces.
14 minutes
Blink UX Honored at Fifth Annual San Francisco Design Week
Blink was recognized for its work with Applied Training Solutions and HERO Index.
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Launching the Future of Global Experience Design Alongside Mphasis
Mphasis, (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, announced today, its acquisition of Blink UX, a User Experience research, strategy, and design firm that works with the world’s leading companies to create transformative digital products, brands, and experiences.
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Blink UX No. 11 On PSBJ's "Washington’s Best Places to Work"
Blink's title was awarded based on results from the 2021 statewide employee survey conducted by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
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Blink Named In America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies
For the fifth time, Blink appears on the Inc. 5000, ranking No. 2283 with three-year revenue growth of 45% percent.
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Blink Is Honored At Fourth Annual San Francisco Design Week
Blink was recognized for our design work with the Special Olympics.
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Blink Listed in 2020 Gartner Design System Report
The 2020 report cites Blink’s work with NASA.
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SBA Appoints Blink CEO To Federal Regulatory Fairness Board
SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza has appointed three small-business leaders from Washington state, including Blink’s Karen Clark Cole, to the U.S. Small Business Administration Federal Regulatory Fairness Board, representing Region 10.
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Blink Top Spot Win At Powderkeg’s 2020 Tech Culture Awards
Blink ranks #1 of over 200 companies to win Top-Ranked Overall Culture at annual Tech Culture Awards.
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Blink Accessibility Director Appointed King County Metro’s APAC
UX research and design firm Blink UX is pleased to announce that Accessibility Director Joe Welinske has been appointed to King County Metro’s Access Paratransit Advisory Committee (APAC).
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Blink Listed in Gartner Hype Cycle for User Experience, 2020
Blink was recognized among the vendors in the 2020 report
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