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Punchcut Announces Expanded UX Research and Design Technology Practices to Help Businesses Thrive in Current Economy
SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Punchcut, an industry-leading digital product design firm, today announced two expanded practice areas within its Design Intelligence domain. These practices will focus on critical design disciplines dedicated to helping clients accelerate design and produce digital products that meet evolving customer expectations of more natural human-to-machine experiences. The expanded UX Research and Design Technology practices will be led by newly promoted directors Joy Wong Daniels and Emilo Passi and will provide Punchcut clients specialized expertise and design intelligence for leading edge digital products and interfaces.
“We’re keenly focused on applying systematic design thinking in nimble ways to help companies accelerate design to adapt their product experiences in the face of exponential change,” said Ken Olewiler, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Punchcut. “As businesses continue to navigate the changing landscape shaped by the pandemic, we’ve seen a huge increase in demand for research, analysis and methodologies that address ‘what’s next’ in consumer behaviors and preferences. At the same time, our clients are rapidly evolving their digital experiences to embrace intelligent technologies for more personalization and automation. Our expanded practice areas deliver on these needs and tap the power of design to drive business growth for our clients.”
These practices strengthen Punchcut’s core Design Acceleration services – Future Vision, Product Design and Team Growth — that accelerate companies’ abilities to envision and realize more intelligent, immersive and systemic products for the future. Punchcut’s clients will benefit from Punchcut’s innovative leadership in Design Intelligence – human and machine discovery to identify customer needs and leverage new technologies for better user experiences.
UX Research Practice: Joy Wong Daniels, recently promoted to Director, will lead this practice. In her role, Joy collaborates with clients and design teams to transform research into actionable insights for emergent technologies. Joy is a tireless advocate for the human experience and has led research for major brands including Samsung, Google, Toyota, and Visa. An alumna of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design she also holds a master’s degree in Learning, Design & Technology from Stanford University. Joy has a wide range of experience from applying advanced research approaches and tools to generating insights that drive product design decisions.
Design Technology Practice: Emilio Passi, recently promoted to Director, will lead this practice. With a background in computer science and design, he’s made a career out of helping product and design teams build future-forward products. A maker at heart, Emilio has led Punchcut’s design technology and development initiatives for companies including Samsung, Google, Ford, and Amazon. Emilio is a seasoned technology leader, digital product designer, prototyper/developer, and UX consultant who helps clients build the right thing, the right way. Emilio specializes in high-fidelity UI prototyping and development, using code to design sophisticated interactivity and motion for a variety of media including web, mobile, watch, TV, voice, and XR. Emilio holds a Computer Science degree from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.
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About Punchcut
Punchcut is a digital product design and innovation company that specializes in future experience transformation. We consult with the world’s top companies to envision, design and realize next generation digital products and services that more consciously engage customers and transform businesses across emerging technologies. We provide Design Acceleration services that spark future vision, energize product design and fuel design team growth for our partners. Learn more at www.punchcut.com, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Media Contact:
Punchcut’s UX Research practice is a specialized team of researchers and designers that deliver a full suite of strategic research services to uncover the most valuable human insights to drive new experience strategies and solutions. With degrees in Psychology, Human Factors, and Human-Computer Interaction, the team brings proven experience and expertise. Punchcut’s design-research approach employs proven methods, both qualitative and quantitative, to uncover what’s happening today and predict trends for the future.
Design Technology brings together a designer-developer mindset to focus R&D on emerging technologies, technical prototyping, and developing intelligent systems and tools that automate experiences for designers and end consumers. With Punchcut’s long history of partnering with major technology, health, and mobility companies, this practice provides technical insight in the early stages of product design to stand up prototypes and reference builds that help clients more quickly iterate and test new design solutions, and is focused on seeing “code” and “data” as design elements. Historically separate disciplines, design and code are becoming more convergent. And with the growth of artificial intelligence and machine learning, design technology will continue to require a deeper understanding of how machines think, feel and act in order to ensure they are supporting people in the most effective ways.
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Kazakhstan Government Delegation Visited SUPCON
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On September 26, a delegation from the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, led by Minister Madiyev Zhaslan, visited SUPCON. SUPCON’s Chairman and President, Mr.Cui Shan, warmly welcomed the delegation.
The Kazakhstan government representatives expressed their appreciation and recognition of SUPCON’s expertise and innovation in intelligent manufacturing, digital transformation, and industrial AI.
Madiyev Zhaslan expressed a strong interest in industrial AI technologies of SUPCON, particularly their applications in intelligent and low-carbon facilities. He looks forward to exploring extensive collaboration with SUPCON across various sectors in Kazakhstan.
Cui Shan emphasized that as a leading industrial AI company with a global presence, SUPCON will leverage its technological advantages to meet Kazakhstan’s industry development requirements and trends, injecting new momentum into the country’s industrial digitalization.
In 2023, SUPCON established a subsidiary in Kazakhstan as its Central Asia regional headquarters and set up a localized operational system. SUPCON will continue to invest in the long-term development of the Central Asia region, contributing further wisdom and strength to the industrial digital transformation in Kazakhstan and beyond.
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Huawei Peer-Recognized as a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On September 24, 2024, Huawei announced that it has been peer-recognized a 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice in the Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure thanks to its Xinghe Intelligent Campus offerings. This marks the fifth year in a row that Huawei has received this distinction. Notably, Huawei receives Customers’ Choice distinctions in four of the six customer segments: Midsize Enterprise (50M – 1B USD); Public Sector, Government and Education; Asia/Pacific; and Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
As of June 30, 2024, customers across diverse sectors — including manufacturing, IT services, education, and telecommunication — have reviewed Huawei’s complete Xinghe Intelligent Campus offerings on the Gartner Peer Insights platform. We believe their impressive feedback showed global recognition of Huawei from the industry influence, deployment scales, and mature commercial use perspectives.
“We’re thrilled to be named a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN Infrastructure again,” said Shawn Zhao, President of Huawei’s Campus Network Domain. “Recently, Huawei launched the newly upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Campus that takes wireless, application, and O&M experience to new levels with AI technologies, ultimately accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises.”
Looking ahead, Huawei will further innovate Xinghe Intelligent Campus offerings from wireless, application, and O&M experience upgrade perspectives, helping all industries stride to the future of experience-centric intelligent campus networks.
For more about Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice, visit: https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/enterprise-wired-wireless-lan-access-infrastructure
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Huawei Wen Tong: 6G Needs to Embrace AI for Shaping Future Network
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — At the 6G Conference held in Istanbul, on September 24, 2024, Dr. Wen Tong, Huawei Wireless CTO, delivered a keynote speech on 6G standardization and innovation. With the release of the ITU-R 6G vision framework, the 3GPP will start 6G standardization in 2025. “6G is a new generation of mobile technology, not a simple upgrade of 5G, it should bring new value to users,” said Dr. Tong, “6G is a true intergenerational technological disruption. 6G standard, key technologies, and network architecture should be re-defined based on application scenarios and requirements from 2030 to 2040. 6G should not be another way to implement 5G. Instead, 6G should embrace the AI revolution with a quantum leap and generate new values for the consumers. In this way, 3GPP standards can truly realize the 6G vision and create greater value for the entire industry.”
Centered “6G Standardization Direction” and “6G Innovation Driving Force”, Dr. Tong shared important views on the future architecture, terminal development, and key technologies of 6G.
In terms of architecture design, 6G should go beyond Service-Based Architecture and move towards Application-Driven Network.
5G has already achieved market success and continues to evolve towards 5G-Advanced. 6G will not simply reuse 5G network architecture, without generational and fundamental innovations, which will limit the mobile industry’s aspiration and imagination to dive the innovation in the 6G era. 6G must have obvious cross-generational characteristics and technical breakpoint.
On the core side, reusing the 5G core network will hinder the innovation in AI. We should use Agentic-AI based technology to re-architect 6G Core that goes beyond 5G Service-Based Architecture and support the foundational capabilities of AI, Sensing and NTN , and thus evolve towards the Application Driven Network .
In terms of terminal evolution, 6G user device calls for a breakthrough to lead the success of the entire industry chain.
It is the law of the mobile industry to drive the evolution of the market with the pioneering technology. The 6G networks and 6G terminals must meet the requirements of consumers and vertical industries in the 6G market phase from 2030 to 2040.
Currently, smartphones are evolving to AI terminals to usher in the mobile AI era. In post-MBB era, breakthroughs in terminal technologies will be the key to the evolution of the mobile industry. Therefore, 6G user device calls for a breakthrough towards “Full-AI”, thus to drive 6G network upgrade and the success of the entire industry ecosystem.
In terms of technology development, AI will become a key enabler for 6G with network paradigm shifting.
Twenty years ago, the Internet was the enabler of the technology innovations. Mobile communications embraced the Internet and achieved great business success. Today, AI maybe the disruptive enabler of the latest technology innovations.
6G should embrace the AI revolution with a quantum leap. However, 6G networks should not be limited to generative AI, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Embodiment-AI are the main directions of future AI development. Therefore, AGI should run through the whole process of sensing, reasoning, decision, and action of terminals, wireless networks, and core networks of 6G, to welcome the arrival of a new network paradigm.
At the end, Dr. Tong Wen emphasized the relationship between 5G and 6G: “The global 5G deployment is on the rise and evolving to 5G-Advanced, which not only meets the current requirements of operators, but also protects their investment. Therefore, 6G technologies should not overlap with 5G in technologies and market space. The specifications, technologies, and architecture of 6G must be based on the scenarios and requirements from 2030 to 2040. We should focus on true generational technology disruption, embrace the new opportunities brought by AI, expand the mobile industry in the next generation.”
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