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Participants around a table during a UX Days 2026 workshop

Events

UX Days 2026: what we took away from the workshops

At UX Days 2026, Akiani covered every workshop, among them The Designer's Trial and Stéphanie Walter's Accessibility User Journey Mapping.

Sketchnote and photographs of the talks at the UX days 2026

Events

UX Days 2026: what we took away from the talks

The whole Akiani team went to UX days 2026 and split up the talks, starting with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz's keynote on open source.

Akiani's session with a counting-technology solutions provider, moderated by Mario Fossati

Events

What a UX perspective changes in event security!

Looking back at the first edition of the ISSUE conference at Palexpo: what breaking down silos between perspectives brings to event security.

Akiani talk at Weezdays Festivals, festival-goer experience

Ethnography

In the festival-goers' footsteps: when the ground contradicts the plan

Eye-tracking at Garorock, 17 days at Paradiski, Paléo's ticketing: on the ground, festival-goers do the opposite of what they say. Weezdays Festivals talk.

Group of people walking along a tree-lined path, viewed from behind

Events

UX Days 2025: recap of the afternoon talks

The eight afternoon talks at UX Days 2025 cover sustainable design, generative AI, inclusion, Disney, the La Redoute redesign and the PayFit copilot.

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Events

UX Days 2025: recap of the morning talks

Seven UX Days 2025 talks unpacked, from Anne Asensio to Marie-Valentine Gallon. Generative economy, biodiversity, accessibility, UX writing and health UX.

Walkway beneath a concrete structure in front of a large reflective globe

Events

UX Days 2025: recap of the workshop day

Twelve UX Days 2025 workshops covered by Akiani: OOUX, design fiction, rebound effects, eco-design. Dense 2-hour sessions, more to try than to master.

Eco-design

Eco-design: a tool to compare image formats

After an eco-design training session with Temesis, we coded a Python script that compares resolution, compression and image formats. The script is freely ava…

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DesignOps

How does handoff work on Adobe XD?

Adobe XD includes handoff natively, with no developer subscription unlike Zeplin. The shared link gives access to CSS, colours and exportable assets.

Line of people each holding and looking at a phone

Ergonomics

Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces - Steve Hoober

Reading notes on Steven Hoober's book on touch usage. Six ways of holding the phone, the central zone scanned first, F-pattern and thumb zone called into que…