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02 Mar 2023

The Future Builds The Present

Dreaming and creating are innate human abilities that allow us to design our futures. We are able to imagine how things can be radically different from what they are today and help to achieve future goals. For example, many of us have dreamed of our next holiday, our next career moves or planning to start […]

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15 Jan 2022

The Story Of Leah Sass and The Urgency To Reimagine The Creative Industry Post-Pandemic

A few years after Leah Sass got her first UX/UI job as the Lead Product Designer, the market was in flux, and the company started to consider laying off their key staff. The excitement of the job quickly wore off as Leah felt the pressure to perform. She would need to fight for her leadership […]

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04 Nov 2021

How to Rediscover Play in Adulthood – Yes, ADULT, we’re talking to you!

In 1966, Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother and then climbed the Texas Tower, where he killed 17 more people and injured 41 others.  To find out the motives for these senseless killings, the governor of Texas, Governor Connelly, asked Dr Stuart Brown to be on the Fact-Finding Task Force as a consulting psychiatrist […]

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16 Oct 2021

How To Set Up A Design Team In A Non-traditional Design Environment

As design finds its place in every industry in the 21st century, we check in with Echo’s Design Leadership team to answer the question on everyone’s mind. How do you set up a design team in a non-traditional design space, say finance, for instance? And what are the top five essential qualities of a design […]

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21 Aug 2021

10 years of innovation!

In 2021, Echos an independent innovation lab completes its tenth anniversary! That’s right, 10 years. You may never have heard of Echos, and if you have, I hope we have positively impacted you or your company! Completing ten years was not an easy journey. Firstly, I want to register my gratitude to everyone somehow involved […]

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16 Jul 2021

How To Design an International Learning Experience

Learning and training has changed dramatically in the past two years. The adoption of online learning experiences has doubled due to the pandemic, however as things continue to evolve in 2021, the projected growth of demand for online courses is only going to increase. According to a report released by Global Market Insights the global […]

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27 Apr 2021

The Business Impact of Design

Designers around the world are in an incredible position. Culturally we are in a moment of transition, with an estimated impact that has not been seen since the industrial revolution. The influence that designers can and will have on this new emerging world is going to be great. While this is all incredibly positive, there […]

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10 Apr 2021

How To Conduct Research About The Future

How do we uncover what may be possible in the future? With research. Research is defined as a systematic investigation into materials and sources to establish new facts and reach new conclusions about a topic.  The tricky part of applying the process of research to the future is there are no known facts about the […]

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13 Mar 2021

Future Scenarios: Clarifying The Possible

The history of future scenario planning is short, when contrasted with the years into the future it can plan for. The first person credited with working with future scenarios is Herman Khan who developed the practice of telling future stories in his work for the US Military and the RAND Corporation in the 1950’s. Prior […]

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01 Mar 2021

Discover Weak Signals To Move Beyond Disruption

Living in a time of disruption creates opportunities for deep reflection. For most of us the last 12 months has been a sustained period of change and the questions that we have been pondering have been profound. Many of us have been wondering; are our outputs important or even relevant in this new world? Do […]

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