A prototype can be almost anything, from a series of paper sketches to a pixel-perfect app. So, when do we introduce prototypes to the design process? At Cantina, we commonly use strategic prototyping and we have insights to share.

In the age of COVID, many of our clients and readers have asked us for insights into our strategies for remote work. This week, we explore how we developed a way to conduct team-based workshops.

With COVID-19, all eyes are on safety and security—at the individual level, in our work lives, and in our public institutions. How does a financial services company like Sun Life Financial respond to the demand for products and services that protect personal health and wellbeing? How do they prepare employees to meet customer needs quickly and efficiently?

With COVID-19 pushing a remote and virtual world, many questions have come to the forefront on whether or not human-centered design can still exist as it has traditionally for the past few decades. How have the pivots to technologies captured all of the minutiae that occurs when human-centered design happens in person? Can mindsets still be learned and utilized such as having a bias towards action or radical collaboration? While there might be some deficiencies in the process in a virtual world, have there been any gains? Innovators and design thinkers always face pressure to speed it up! However, maybe it’s time for us to slow it down.