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Catalytic Layer Microstructure in Pulsed Electrodeposited Bismuth-Based Gas Diffusion Electrodes Used for CO2 Reduction to Formate
1. Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! Mitigating climate change is a significant challenge of our time. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas linked to harmful climate change effects. (1) Economic means to utilize CO2 may motivate its capture, transforming waste into a resource. Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2r) reaction to formate offers an economically viable path to CO2 valorization.
Meta’s decision, 4 pillars of content design, GenAI color harmony, quantitative personas
Meta’s decision, 4 pillars of content design, GenAI color harmony, quantitative personas Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. Unfortunately, when you’ve claimed the word ‘meta’ from our lexicon and then you announce that you’ve done a bad job deciding what’s right so you’ve decided to stop deciding what’s right — but you get that decision wrong — , we’re out of words to describe the irony.” Make me think Whither dashboard design? → “Every dashboard is a sunk cost.
News from the Future of Money
This article is the third in a series of articles in which I'm exploring some of the less talked-about niches within the future of money through fiction writing. In the last article, I explored the future of time banks in 2040, and in the first article, I explored the future of charitable donations in 2035.
News from the Future of Money
By Yaron Cohen What can we learn from using fiction writing to illustrate possible scenarios for time banks in 2040 Photo by Donald Wu on Unsplash This article is the second in a series of articles in which I'm exploring some of the less talked-about niches within the future of money through fiction writing.
Dive into service design with the help of a generative AI coach
Dive into service design with the help of a generative AI coach Generative AI will not replace humans in teaching service design but it can help you apply service design concepts in practice A human and an AI working together on a service architecture. Image created by author using Dall-E. Introduction — How intuitive is service design?
How to Create Storyboards for Design Projects Using Generative AI
Have you ever faced the dilemma of wanting to visually articulate your ideas using a storyboard but found yourself hindered by budget constraints or limited drawing skills? Storyboarding, a powerful tool originating from the 1930s film industry, is pivotal in bringing narratives to life, allowing us to almost ‘live’ through situations and ideate solutions to address what we see.
How to use Generative AI in strategic foresight
How to use Generative AI in strategic foresight Introduction — Generative AI is your new thinking partner During 2023 we’ve all got a taste of what large language models (LLMs) and generative AI can do for us in areas such as content generation, data analysis, and just as a brainstorming partner. In addition, by now we can all assume AI won’t replace humans in most jobs, including design and strategy roles, but people who know how to leverage AI and deliver better results, definitely will.
What does the future hold for UX researchers?
What does the future hold for UX researchers? A few possible scenarios for some of the new opportunities for UX researchers in the next few years Photo by 𝓴𝓘𝓡𝓚 𝕝𝔸𝕀 on Unsplash We’re living in uncertain times but there’s hope The years 2022–2023 brought immense pressure and uncertainty for many tech employees who lost their jobs, many of them were UX researchers.
4 Service Design Artifacts Product Teams Can Use To Find Flaws And Fine-Tune Features
Product managers are often seen as the mini-CEOs of their products, which is why they need to be able to look at a problem from multiple lenses in order to make decisions. There’s no shortage of software for product managers in the world, including analytics reports, project management tools, business snapshots, and industry reports.
Product Designer Vs UX Designer: Differences In Roles, Skills, & Salary
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, user experience (UX) is a critical component for the success of any digital product or service. However, many digital leaders who need to staff their teams still struggle to differentiate between the roles of UX Designer and Product Designer and are unsure which one to hire for their team.
UX People Will Soon Have To Collaborate With New Professions
“The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” Wiliam Gibson, American-Canadian fiction writer If you work in any discipline related to UX design (e.g. interaction design, content, UX research, etc.) your current list of stakeholders is probably not big. For many UX people, the main stakeholders are product managers, business managers, and maybe some engineering people. Most of us work in agile environments where we need to deliver solutions that can then be coded.
UX people will soon have to collaborate with new professions
The current situation Many of us still divide the physical space and the virtual space into two categories that are distinct, continuing the reality that existed pre-Covid. However, the high amount of “virtual time” we all had in the past few years at work and in our personal lives led to the boundaries slightly being blurred between the two. Both architects and UX designers work with the concept of “” and the activities that happen in it.
Travel to Jerusalem - Following King David
The name David carries huge significance in Israel. In Judaism, he was the unassuming shepherd who became the second King of Israel in the 10th century BCE, his strength and humility made famous in his slaying of the giant, Goliath. According to the New Testament, Jesus descended from him, and in Islam, he is recognized as a prophet, messenger and King.
Making Sense Of The B2B Customer Journey-And How To Optimize It
You can think of the B2B customer journey as a storyline that describes your end-to-end relationship with a particular B2B client. There are multiple stages in the relationships that are often described as “touchpoints” or “customer interactions” in industry terms. At every touchpoint, there’s a different customer interaction that leads to a new part of the customer journey.
Is “research” the best word to describe what UX researchers do?
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. — Deborah Tannen , American author and professor of linguistics Language matters for understanding humans. If you are a UX researcher reading this article, you probably agree with this statement. As a UX researcher who’s passionate about languages, I took it one step further and wrote an article about why learning languages can help you become a better UX professional.
What Is Customer Onboarding? Tips And Best Practices
If you’re still not yet convinced yet, let me bring some scientific facts about one of our own biases as humans—the Primacy Effect. In a nutshell, we tend to better remember the first part of an experience, which is exactly where customer onboarding processes happen. First up... So let's define what customer onboarding or user onboarding is.
The high-impact UX design areas of 2022-2030
If you work in UX and like big questions, you probably asked yourself at some point the question of “what will be some high-impact areas for UX in the future?”. It’s a good question to ask, since after all, our field is relatively young, and we all want to use our UX skills in interesting projects. After reflecting on the events of recent years (2020–2021), I came up with a collection of new interesting problems the UX community will likely tackle in the rest of the 2020s.
Open vs. Closed Systems: Why Technology Thrives with Open Architecture
Maybe you’ve seen the meme knocking around the internet: a photo of British octogenarian David Latimer who bottled a handful of seeds in a glass carboy in 1960 and left it largely untouched for almost 50 years (uncorking it only once, in 1972, to add a little water). His 10-gallon garden created its own miniature ecosystem, and has thrived for more than half a century.
How Can AI Improve a Product’s User Experience?
There is no doubt that AI has been a hyped word in the past few years, and some people claim it can ruin the experience of using digital products (watch “The Social Dilemma” for the best example). Yet, with the right approach, AI can actually improve the experience of using digital products. If we want to understand how to do it, we need to go back to UX and interaction design fundamentals and go from there. Let’s get started.
How Can AI Improve a Product’s User Experience?
Experts already understand that AI is the most useful when it helps humans work faster by enhancing their capabilities. It is already happening in sectors such as the creative and the technical industries. The most important thing to remember here is that to help us achieving our goals fast, AI shouldn’t confuse us when we use digital products. By “not confuse us” I mean giving us enough feedback to understand that we are on the right path to achieve our goals and what’s possible to do next.
Understanding the Monetary Value of Data
One of the biggest challenges that analytics departments deal with (beyond the technical challenges of extracting insights from data) is measuring Return on Investment (ROI) for analytics initiatives.
Data Curation Can Learn From Art Curation
Many organizations that jumped on the data bandwagon a few years ago find themselves nowadays having to deal with a big amount of data that was accumulated overtime cluttered among data silos within the organization not knowing where to find some parts of it.
Excuse Me, Do You Speak Data?
Just like many other analytics professionals I regularly speak to, I sometimes find it hard to explain what I exactly do in my day to day job to people who don't work in the field despite the big hype in the media around anything data in the past few years (e.g. big data, data science, etc.).
Why Do Some Organizations Fail To Adopt A Product Approach In Analytics?
The technical Product approach has been around for quite some time in the world of software development, and nowadays product managers are in charge of transforming business requirements into technical solutions together with their development teams. However, in the world of analytics things are a bit different, and many analytics teams still take a reactive approach when responding to business needs despite the growing willingness to adopt a more proactive product approach in analytics.
SQL Is The Lingua Franca Of Data Practitioners. How Can We Make It Better Understood?
The world has seen the rise and fall of linguas francas spoken in geographic regions, and among practitioners in different professional fields. English is still dominant language in most Commonwealth member countries as well as in academic circles that publish mainly in English, the same way that Latin was used in the ancient Roman Empire, and Aramaic was used as Western Asia’s common language.
One day we will all become "citizen AI users"
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Re-defining the role of data analysts
Not a long time ago I attended a session about agile development methods for analytics. The session was fascinating and talked about how methods such as Kanban and Scrum can be applied in the domain of analytics the same way they are applied in software and web development.
Innovative Financing for Humanitarian Energy Interventions
28 February 2019 This paper explores the increase in resources and funding needed to improve the access of displaced people to modern and sustainable energy services. Authors Yaron Cohen Financial and business development consultant Laura Patel Programme Manager, Moving Energy Initiative (Energy 4 Impact) Summary In settings that host displaced and refugee communities, energy can act as an enabler for improved healthcare, education and access to clean water.
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