It’s a chilly Friday morning on September 25th. Just before the second Covid wave in 2020. Six of us, passionate and driven enthusiasts, meeting at the local coffee shop to discuss resurrecting the UX UI Riga meetup. The same design movement, that since 2015 has ignited reasons for user experience…

I’ve met user experience designers that are happy doing what they love with a strong sense of mission to change the world. I've also seen many of us going through an existential identity crisis with comparable intensity due to the vagueness of the profession. Many of us aim at making…

The world is witnessing a true black swan moment. We are required to keep the physical distance. Remote collaboration. Reduced mobility. The world pauses. The unknowns build up. New opportunities appear. …

December 9, 1968. Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the first computer mouse along with other elements of modern personal computing. This presentation becomes known as “The Mother of All Demos”. Fast forward 43 years to 2011. Touchscreen devices are on a popularity surge. Microsoft has just launched its Productivity Vision. Where the…

You’ve perhaps heard the famous fable about a frog being boiled alive. Where the frog reacts to sudden threat (boiling water) by jumping out but doesn’t react if put in tepid water that is brought to a boil slowly. Although this fable has received criticism as being incorrect, it has…

The IT world has brought us a more flexible and goal-oriented way to manage projects. Since the inception of the Agile Manifesto in 2001, the agile thinking culture has had many repercussions around the corporate world and beyond. The twelve principles behind the Agile Manifesto direct the attention towards what…

EuroIA 2019 is here and this year’s theme is Impact. We welcome EuroIA to Riga, the capital of Latvia! Below are some practical tips if you have some extra time to spend in the city. Transport If you are looking for the fastest and easiest way to get somewhere that's beyond…

Jóhann Jóhannsson. Kangaru. Click. Play. Eardrum vibration. Sense of delight. Suspension steadily building up. Thoughts bubbling like a boiling pot. Focus turns to a subset of thoughts. An image of a blurry figure slowly turning into someone a little bit excited, a little bit anxious. Anticipating something. Walking along the…

It’s a late spring of 2008. I’m on my way to getting an undergraduate degree in systems analysis, dreaming of career in interaction design, and I’ve just deliberately started a journey towards the peace of mind. I’ve started meditating. …