Carolina examines how people adopt technology and how experience changes product value across consumer and enterprise markets, collaboration, and employee engagement.
CES has been traditionally a sound stage for PC manufacturers to showcase what is coming to market for the first 6 to 9 months of the year ahead. However, as the show has broadened its scope and PCs lost their shine over the past few years, fighting for attention was much more difficult. This year,…
This week at a second Apple Event in just over a month, Apple launched the 3rd generation AirPods, HomePod Mini in new colors, two new chipsets, M1 Pro and M1 Max and two new MacBook Pro. You can find my colleague Ben’s take on the M1 Pro and M1 Max here. Apple also launched a…
I am not one for sensationalistic titles when talking about a product, but I must admit talking about the new Surface Laptop Studio like the first convertible worth having is the best way to summarize how I feel about this product. At what has now become an annual Fall appointment, the Microsoft Sur
As is always the case with high-profile launches, we got to Apple’s California Streaming event with plenty of rumors to consider. Of course, most of what was expected did materialize on stage, but many of the details certainly helped paint a much better picture of Apple’s view of the market and how
For Samsung, summer has traditionally been synonymous with the Galaxy Note, but in 2019 the top-of-the-line model had to share the limelight with the Galaxy Z Fold line. Then, in 2020 the Note even had to share the stage with the Fold family. If you follow the smartphone market, you can understand w
At Alexa Live 2021, Amazon’s annual developer conference focused on skills and services built for Alexa-enabled devices, the company shared a long list of improvements both from a features and developer tools perspective. Seven years in the making, Alexa now counts hundreds of millions of devices in
Lately, you can’t talk about work without talking about hybrid work. As the world starts to go back to regular business, brands and industry watchers begin to hypothesize what work will look like going forward. We can certainly disagree on whether the future of work will be remote or hybrid or a pla
We all saw the leaks last week, and while I was left with more questions than answers, it was evident that Microsoft focused on a much more modern, fresher, simpler user interface. What was unclear till today was why Microsoft thought that the update it delivered was worthy of a step-change in numbe
Google Workspace had undergone a transformation since October 2020 when G Suite was rebranded to Google Workspace, and a series of skews were released to address the enterprise market. In February, Workspace was brought to the education market, and at Google I/O, the team launched Smart Canvas, a ne
I am not sure if it’s the lack of down time for stage walk-ons or that Apple has got this digital event thing down to a science, but the pace of this year Apple’s Developer Conference (WWDC) was incredible. The overall impact of the announcements across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS will take
We are excited to publish our first Delight Scale post covering some of the many key insights we gathered on how subscribers to the Disney+ streaming service think and feel about their experience. We strongly believe that a key driver of product experience delight is centered on how the product or s
There were plenty of rumors leading up to Google I/O that we might see the next generation of Samsung’s Galaxy Watch models embrace Google’s wearable platform Wear OS. The rumors turned out to be quite right. The next Galaxy Watch will be running Wear OS, but the news is actually much more significa