Insights on current events and the latest topics in design and tech.
How we plan for GenAI
Use Task-Based Analysis to help prepare your organization for the transformative impact of generative AI, ensuring strategic readiness with a strong focus on optimizing for performance.
Love loyally - NoA Breakfast Club recapped
The relationship between brands, love, and loyalty was the topic at the NoA Breakfast Club on 18th April. How do people form emotional connections with brands? How does it affect their loyalty to those brands? Dive into the key takeaways with this article.
AI user experiences beyond Chat
Discover how generative AI is revolutionizing our interaction with technology, shifting from traditional command-based interfaces to intuitive conversational UI and beyond.
Wave of Noise: Design
Design and generative AI: This second article in our series outlines our strategic position and approach for ourselves and our clients in this rapidly evolving field.
Watch the Usable AI™ webinar
Watch the recording of our DK&Talks webinar on Usable AI™, and read the highlights from this article. Usable AI™ is DK&A's proven design framework that puts customers first when designing and delivering AI-driven products.
Winning with digital product design
During Helsinki Design Week, we brought together design-minded folks from across the industry to discuss the role of digital product design in delivering best-in-class customer experiences.
Elevate your brand with composable commerce
Composable commerce isn't something from the future; it's happening now. It's all about delivering seamless, engaging, on-brand experiences, with unparalleled performance and scale. These are not buzzwords; they're the new standard.
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Awarded user experience
IF Design Award 2023 for DK&A and Sector Alarm
Wave of noise: Organizations
We create unique, innovative, and user-centric products that drive growth, enhance CX, and differentiate businesses in the market.
I’m a Content Designer. How can AI help me?
AI does not think. AI generates.
The shift to composable commerce
A composable commerce approach benefits your business, creatives, and developers. We guide you into the journey of replatforming from monolithic to composable commerce.
Grow your business with AI
DK&A supported the Sharper Shape team to improve their efficiency with smart automation. Introducing and scaling AI is a journey open to organizations at all technology levels.
Thriving in complexity
As the fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds, Design leadership must adapt by asking the right questions and fostering a flexible, innovative mindset.
Breaking the mold of monolithic e-commerce
We believe that better CX equals better business outcomes - especially in the branded e-commerce space. Brands seeking better results should make note of the composable e-commerce approach.
Your product tells a story
User experience can be a story, told by humans to humans. At DK&A, we emphasize the power of UX storytelling to create a narrative around your digital product, resonating with your customer emotions and fostering trust and engagement in their journey.
Building a more Inclusive digital world
The digital world has become an integral way of understanding and controlling our lives. And everyone, whether fully able or anyhow impaired, should be able to independently navigate their life.
DK&A joins the North Alliance
As of March 15th, DK&A joins the family of companies known as NoA - The North Alliance. Together with Bob the Robot, we are the founding partners of NoA Finland.
From trade show into magic show
Last summer we partnered up with Europe’s largest tech festival Tech Open Air, where over 150 thought-leaders shared their vision on how the world will evolve. With these 7 pro tips, you too can create experiences that leave your prospects wanting more.
The DK&A notebook
At DK&A’s booth at Tech Open Air in Berlin, you will have a chance to receive a very special gift. This is the story of the DK&A Notebook.
More than just a milkshake
The Jobs To Be Done framework isn’t limited to product design alone. JTBD can also be applied to B2B cases.
The benefits of happy workers
Companies transforming into more employee-friendly workplaces couldn’t be any more timely. The biggest trigger of the EX turn is the attitude towards work among the new generation of hires.
Made in Mänttä
A Finnish town in decay experiences a second spring, a once scared young man rises to the occasion and DK&A gains a true craftsman as their Chief Commercial Officer. Meet Perttu Monthan.
Chaos engineer
The life of Mateusz Szlosek was the butterfly effect in action. His story included the distinct impact of a single event that set the conditions to his career as an engineer, his eventual work at DK&A, and the unpredictable flourishes of his skillset.
The magic of turning invisible to visible
Our CEO Tom Jacobsson discusses embracing transformation, highlighting the need for innovation and adaptation in the face of change. At DK&A, we help our clients navigate market shifts, developing new products, and services.
Creative methodologies
I was talking to DK&A’s CEO about the Creative Sprint, a procedure that we’ve developed over the last year to assist companies with articulating actionable and innovative product visions.
Craftsmanship Culture
Tom Jacobsson describes Craftsmanship Culture, a dedication to mastery in products and services, brands, ideas, people, and behavior. It means a great deal to him and manifests within the values of DK&A.
Vibrant dark
I asked Tero if he could describe his aesthetic. “Vibrant, darkish color schemes,” he said, not concerned with the contradiction between “vibrant” and “dark.” I knew exactly what he meant. Well before this interview, we had played a game called Rez on h…
