This month’s episode is a special one. At Houston Inc., we pride ourselves on having diverse, interdisciplinary teams. Our designers and developers work together in close knit teams and we really try to blur these boundaries. But we’re still on a quest for the perfect relationship and in this episode we talk about how to get there. The episode also features an interview with Niko Salminen, Principal Technologist at Houston Inc. and some special appearances from some very cool...

DesignOps helps companies invest in design by operationalizing their workflow, hiring, alignment between teams, and more so that designers are able to focus on design work and let someone else take control of the rest. But who really needs DesignOps? When’s the right time to start thinking about it, and how does one even get started? We chat with Angelos Arnis, Design Operations at Elisa and Sonja Krogius, Lead Designer at Nordkapp, the people behind the DesignOps meetups in Helsinki.  Let...

Like many industries, the food retailing and restaurant business are also changing. And there are many new digital players sprouting like mushrooms. One of them is the Finnish startup Wolt. An app that people use to order food from restaurants to their home.  In this month’s episode we have a chat with Elias Aalto, the Co-founder and Head of User Experience at Wolt, about the product design and evolution of the Wolt app. We discuss the advantages of having designers in the founding team of a...

As more companies start adopting a user-centric approach to their business, the need for customer insights increases. But knowing who your customers are is only the tip of the iceberg. With their personal values, attitudes and habits, humans are so much more complex. This was also the basis for Kuudes’ research called Informed Consumer. We talk about this in our second episode with Petra Väänänen-Leimu, Kuudes’ Insight Specialist. Petra tells us how the Informed Consumer project was conducted...

We’ve been talking about Virtual reality for ages now. We’ve seen it in movies, cartoons and read about it in books. But it’s taken a while to go from concept to an actual, useable medium. And unlike what movies from the 80s would have us believe, our daily lives do not revolve around experiences in virtual reality. In this first episode of Nudging Pixels, we chat with Akseli Anttila, Principal UX Designer at Varjo Technologies, the Helsinki-based startup behind the first human eye...