WYlights

Mar 11, 2024

The 7 future trends of e-commerce in food retail

When we observe the e-commerce phenomenon in the food retail sector, we identify its growth potential. In global terms, Insider Intelligence projections confirm this trend: by 2026, it is expected that 24% of retail purchases will be made online, reaching 8.148 trillion dollars. But how will the food retail sector adapt to this evolution? Here […]

Mar 08, 2024

The Era of Discomfort as a Weapon of Change

The Era of discomfort as a weapon of change, not always painless, but that transports us to something greater and equips us with the tools for the future. We live in the Era of predominance of the mutable, which forces us to leave the comfort of stability and seek the restlessness of the new. António […]

Mar 05, 2024

Cybersecurity at WYgroup

Cybersecurity is one of the most pressing issues in the digital age, especially for companies operating in the areas of creativity, technology, and digital media, where exposure to cyber threats is significant. In this article, I will address these fundamental principles and present a set of preventive measures that all users should follow to mitigate […]

Mar 01, 2024

Vulnerability as a Soft Skill

You’ve probably read in the previous pages of this LIDER edition that demonstrating vulnerability is not a weakness. Instead, it’s an essential soft skill that challenges us to accept our limits. When leaders embrace and share their own vulnerability, the work environment gains authenticity, and teams emerge stronger. Everyone starts to feel like part of […]

Feb 29, 2024

From Concept to Action: Digital Product Experience Engineering

Any digital product is distributed to its users through channels such as smartphones, computers, and others. User experience is crucial to their success, and there is only a good UX with a good engineering process. This inseparable connection requires an extended implementation of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) so that engineering has the best possible […]

Jan 24, 2024

Emotional Design: Creating Products that Captivate

Emotional design is the art of crafting products that evoke emotions, resulting in positive and impactful experiences for the user. According to Donald Norman, author of the book “Emotional Design,” “it is not enough to build products that work and are understandable and usable. We also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, […]

Jan 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: Responsible Innovation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new concept in marketing, and experts in the field know that it is already a reality in programmatic media buying, pay-per-click advertisement effectiveness, and data-driven content creation. However, natural language processing (NPL) tools like ChatGPT have radically changed the way we work in digital marketing, speeding up processes, optimizing […]

Jan 03, 2024

Conscious innovation

Upon finishing college, my first application was to Linden Labs. This San Francisco company was the creator of the virtual community Second Life, a world for residents to create whatever digital life they want. At the time, even knowing the world of e-sports, I believed that there was a future there – spaces where reality […]

Dec 19, 2023

Please do not disturb!

I was at a small innovation conference a few days ago. The speaker clarifies, at one point, that specific disruptive innovation models have to be supplied to consumers at free cost. This is the only way to achieve the adoption critical mass, enabling the development of network effects. That was the case with nearly everything, […]

Nov 02, 2023

WYtalk Kindology – be kind to all kinds

Today, the importance of mental health is critical: from childhood to adulthood, burnout, anxiety, and depression have been linked to significant human losses. The last WYtalk at Casa da Praia hosted Kindology – be Kind to all Kinds, a community of psychologists and therapists, with an innovative proposal for circularity in mental health, committed to […]