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2022-06-292023-10-16 by Peter Sneekes

Public Transport – Designing a Common Dependency & Collaboration Day

We created an interactive, workshop filled day to help a large public transport organization collaborate from within towards customers. The day was laid out from presenting plans, problems and predictions, mapping out modes, discussing and finally committing to a common understanding of dependency and collaboration. Details of this format is available on request. Details on…

2022-06-172022-06-17 by Peter Sneekes

Thingscon 2022, redux

Last week I left Rotterdam with a huge smile on my face: Thingscon was beyond what I expected. The conference on connected technology research and design with themes like empathy, sustainability and tangibility felt like a warm and welcoming bath. Here are some highlights and impressions of the 1.1 day long gathering. To preface: I…

2022-05-212022-08-21 by Peter Sneekes

Running with scissors

“Running with scissors”, a perfect summary of innovation sometimes. You’re pushing the boundaries so hard it might break, people might get hurt. The fortunate thing is: you use the innovation mindset. The innovation mindset is mindful: You are aware you might break stuff, people might get hurt and you are also aware that you will…

2022-05-032025-04-02 by Peter Sneekes

Customer Experience – Transformation Acceleration Platform

As the CX Design Strategist and advisor working on an in-house developed online platform where organizations could shape, monitor, and drive their digital transformation efforts. Through this platform, the leadership, teams, and individuals within these organizations gained insights into their own transformation journeys, including Agile, DevOps, and BizDev implementations. With this information, they could work…

2022-04-212022-08-21 by Peter Sneekes

Exceptional Industrial Design

I love industrial design! Specifically when people break conventions, create something unique and do it to perfection. teenage engineering is a company that has done this couple of times. They make synthesizers and other music and sound apparatus. Their break through was the OP1, a tiny aluminium milled synthesizer with DJ sensibilities. A product made to jam…

2021-12-162023-11-21 by Peter Sneekes

The Cognizant Digital Studio – New Safe Design Foundation

To make Cognizant’s Digital Studio compatible with health and safety regulations during Covid19 and make it as welcoming to employees and customers alike I designed core values, principles and guidelines for a redesign of the space. As the lead creative of the innovation practice I was the lead to help both the location director and…

2021-12-032023-12-04 by Peter Sneekes

Mirabeau-Cognizant Makerspace and Innovation lab

As a design agency it’s important to drive innovation in the industry. We discovered new methods, applied new technologies and created experiments to try and illustrate the use of various cutting edge technologies. For Mirabeau I was the creative lead on the innovation lab until 2021, which entailed leading small teams to create concise and…

2021-11-162025-04-02 by Peter Sneekes

Masterclass Design Thinking /w University Rotterdam (HR) and municipal housing talent

Quint (now Eraneos) wrote an article on the various challenges in municipal housing in the Netherlands and how they saw opportunity to incorporate the innovation power of university level students and that of Quint to start solving some of the key challenges like sustainability, operational accountability and collaboration. In collaboration with Hogeschool Rotterdam (University of…

2021-08-152023-10-15 by Peter Sneekes

ARCAM Data visualization on safety in the city

In 2020 I spearheaded a unique collaboration between Cognizant and ARCAM. This collaboration consisted the creation and sponsorship of one of the expositions on Safe Spaces in ARCAM. The result was an interactive and data driven conversation data visualization on various aspects on safety in the city of Amsterdam. The goal: start and guide the…

2021-03-212022-08-21 by Peter Sneekes

Streaming value in realtime

Yesterday I streamed money to podcasters WHILE I was listening to their podcast using the Breez app and relying on a huge revamp of the podcast infrastructure called Podcasting 2.0. It’s a very interesting way to listen to podcasts and pay for each second you listen to, or if you like, boost (extra money) those valuable moments in…

2020-06-082022-08-21 by Peter Sneekes

Growing and show case-ing innovation, vision and leadership

So for a long time now I try to offer our services via LinkedIn, but apparently their forms have never heard of ‘customer experience’, or ‘service design strategy’, or ‘experience innovation’ and ‘enterprise design’. That’s why I decided to work on a couple of articles 🙂 Because everything related to smart change is exploding, with Europe…

2020-04-202026-04-20 by Peter Sneekes

An ecosystem for the Digital Maker

Digital Maker was developed as a collaborative innovation framework to help organizations explore new business opportunities without committing to large, slow, and expensive transformation programs. We saw a recurring challenge: clients wanted to innovate, but often lacked the time, capacity, or internal momentum to do so. At the same time, senior experts were looking for…

2020-03-202023-11-16 by Peter Sneekes

The Best Is Yet To Come: one year of love and pride

On February 14th 2019 Vera Rademaker started gathering people in our office for what we soon called ‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ (TBIYTC) to share and present what we are proud of in our coffee room/ cantina. Vera started this get-together because she felt some colleagues were missing out on the wonderful things we make:…

2019-09-192019-09-19 by Peter Sneekes

Launch of Dapperder – a company that helps innovation through human centered design

In Januari of this year I soft launched my company Dapperder in response of market opportunities I could not fulfil in my current job. ‘Dapperder’ can be translated to ‘more brave’. This is the sentiment I wish for people and organisations. To step into a brave new world, filled with opportunity. In short: Dapperder is…

2019-09-122022-09-03 by Peter Sneekes

Live! #MijnZaanstreek Videoproductie voor Zaans Museum

In opdracht van Fonk en in naam van Astrid Poot heb ik een korte video productie gedaan voor het Zaans Museum. De videos zijn voor kinderen uit de buurt die een spannende opdracht krijgen om zelf iets te maken voor het museum! Het programma is overigens in zijn geheel verzonnen, gemaakt en geïnitieerd in samenwerking…

2019-09-092019-09-22 by Peter Sneekes

Google Design Sprint Volksbank

One of the activities we deploy for all our clients is Google Design Sprints. I have set up a little training program for people that want to get better as a facilitator or creative in such a sprint. This one we did because we liked the topic and the people. Of course I can’t say…

2019-08-182019-09-22 by Peter Sneekes

Audio History of my dad

My dad is the greatest. A humble man, a man with a strong moral compass and a man with a history. Today I tried to catch some of his stories into my audio recorder. As you might or might not know, I have a huge history in producing media programs. From my version of the…

2019-08-172019-09-22 by Peter Sneekes

Expert review of CX for a big US health insurance operator

In August 2019 I led an expert review of the CX and UX of a customer data management system used by big health insurance operators. Within a couple of days we scanned, interviewed and mapped the information we needed to give a good preliminary advice. The wish of the client was to get quick, result…

2019-07-122023-10-15 by Peter Sneekes

Wizard of Oz testing for voice using sound board software

In innovation there is one thing that’s a constant: working through all the limitations and missing connections of technology really limits your ability to test with people. Let’s say you want to produce a voice interface for a newspaper and specifically like to use a high end artificial voice that hasn’t been released yet on…

2019-07-102023-11-16 by Peter Sneekes

Voice PoC sprint for publishing company

As spin off of our innovation practice I was the creative and strategic lead for a Dutch voice project proof of concept sprint for a big publishing house. In order to create proof for a go-to-market strategy of the application of voice interfaces in the Netherlands we create Proof of Concepts. Goal was to go…