design
DevNet Celebrates 5 Years at Cisco Live
The upcoming DevNet Zone at Cisco Live in San Diego will be the 5th anniversary of our first DevNet Zone at Cisco Live. The first was in San Francisco in 2014. We had just started up DevNet the preceding January and made a last minute decision to get into the Cisco Live game. It was a tough and stee…
Creative Techies: Designing the New #WeAreCisco Graphic
What does the word “techie”, “engineer” or “coder” mean to you? Likely, you have a general definition of the people in those roles. But I’m here to assure you that Cisco employees aren’t only engineers, coders, marketers, innovators, or financiers — we are also amazingly creative people! And, if you…
Experience Design: Meeting User Needs, One Good Conversation at a Time
I’m proud to work with a diverse and talented team of people who comprise Cisco CHILL. Today, I’ve asked Whitney McGowan, our amazing user experience designer, to share what it means to design an experience focused on the user, not the technology. I’m a designer, so when asked to write I often expla…
Design Thinking at Cisco DevNet
Cisco technology can help individuals and organizations around the world build pretty much anything they imagine. But before you build it, you should ask the right questions to make sure you are making the most of your resources and your ideas. It’s important to always keep the user in mind.…
API Scaling, Security, Serverless API-ing and GraphQL – Hot Topics at the NordicAPI Platform Summit
I was lucky enough to hit Stockholm for the NordicAPI Platform Summit at the beginning of last week. It’s one of only a few all-API focused events held internationally, so given a (probably unhealthy) chunk of my life has been about APIs and all that comes with them, I was geekily excited about it.…
How to Automate Your Network (and More)
A network powered by intent. Informed by context. Growing more intuitive every day. The Network. Intuitive. This is Cisco’s vision, built on intent-based networking technologies that can turn days of work into hours, and hours into seconds. One way for you to get started is with centralized manageme…
Top 5 Smart City Predictions: AI and the Birth of Self-Aware Cities
What will cities look like in the future? With the birth of Machine Learning, explosion in Artificial Intelligence and our increasingly Tech-Centric culture, they may look much different than most people expect. And the process of planning them will as well. But one things for sure – they will be sm…
Cyber Security Capture the Flag (CTF) Series Part 2: Developing
Tim Harmon is a Cisco Champion, an elite group of technical experts who are passionate about IT and enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and thoughts across the social web and with Cisco. The program has been running for over four years and has earned two industry awards as an industry best pra…
A Designer’s View: Winning Red Dot’s “Best of the Best” for Cisco Spark Board
Today feels like what it must be to be a race driver winning the Le Mans or an actor winning the Oscars. As a product designer, it’s an amazing feeling to be awarded “Best of the Best” Red Dot Design Award. No doubt it is a privilege to win this award, but like the race driver at Le Mans, it can’t b…
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