My passion for sketching As a writer would jot down notes for their next book, I have always sketched ideas as soon as I think of them, it's a memory bank I can come back to wherever I need to. In high school, I drew short comic stories for the...
Driving Design as Women: Challenges & coping strategies
OpinionIt's 2017 and thankfully 'Mad Men' misogyny is a thing of the past (in the UK at least). So why am I even talking about driving design as women? Is it still relevant? As an experienced designer, apparently I am either respected or hardened enough not to notice gender inequality...
UBS Neo wins Best Platform Award for 4th year
Experience, NewsProfit & Loss Digital FX Award Winner Congratulations to all the UBS team who continue to evolve the UBS Neo platform and lead the way. Neo has been recognised by the industry and awarded three more Profit & Loss Digital FX Awards, including the top award Best Platform - for an impressive fourth successive year -...
Technology trends driving business innovation: NTT DATA Foresights
Digital, Innovation, OpinionNew technology trends and advancements in UX design are transforming business and society. In order to be prepared for the changes and make the most appropriate business decisions it is important to invest in R&D to identify the changes and opportunities. Our parent company Global IT Innovator, NTT DATA invest $1.8...
NTT DATA Selects Social Coin as Winner of Open Innovation Business Contest
Event, InnovationLast week NTT DATA, announced that it selected Barcelona-based Social Coin as the winner of the Open Innovation Business Contest 5.0 during the contest’s Grand Finale at NTT DATA headquarters in Toyosu, Tokyo on March 15. The global competition organised by RMA’s parent company NTT DATA invited high-tech companies worldwide...
International Women’s Day – Recognising RMA Women
Event, OpinionIn the digital industry almost twice as many men are employed as women. However, RMA bucks the trend with women making up 50% of its permanent workforce. At RMA and our parent organisation NTT DATA we place great importance on the value of diversity. Today, we are supporting International Women’s Day...
Conversational UI: What is it? And what does it mean for design & business?
Digital, Event, Experience, Innovation, UXEarlier this month I was lucky enough to attend Interaction17, with a couple of my RMA UX design colleagues, Mei and Dario. This year more than 1,000 designers travelled to New York City for the IxDA’s 10th annual gathering. Having attended two of these IxDA events over the years, I...
User experience when AI makes all the decisions
Opinion, UXArtificial Intelligence (AI) has definitely hit peak hype… it’s being written about an awful lot - even in design circles. And yes, there are new tools and new capabilities that are sure to impact us designers in the not too far future - see Yuri Vetrov’s article on algorithm driven...
NTT DATA’s Global Open Innovation Business Contest 5.0
Event, Innovation, NewsEvery year RMA’s parent company, NTT DATA holds an Annual Global Innovation Business Contest to find start up companies to invest in. This year for the first time, the competition is travelling to 10 cities around the world, with the first event taking place in London yesterday (7th February) and the...
The Impact of Digital Transformation on… Society
Digital, Opinion, UXThis series of blog posts looks at how Digital Transformation is changing business models, work and society in 2017. In this final post, I will look at its impacts on society - specifically the affect of personalisation on online ideological segregation, and connected devices on the rise of technostress. 3a) Society: Online Ideological...