I’m excited to announce that two of our design teams received well-deserved recognition from iF Design’s competition this year. IBM Watson Knowledge Catalog won in the app/software category, while IBM Automation Decision Services did so in the interface for digital media category.

For 67 years, the iF DESIGN AWARD has been used as the seal of approval for great design. Their famed iF World Design Guide serves as a voice of authority and inspiration across the industry. …

Designers at IBM pride themselves in having both top-tier design skills and advanced technical knowledge. The risk management industry recently validated and honored this critical combination of skill sets in our designers. I’m excited to announce that IBM OpenPages with Watson won the best user interface innovation category in the Risk Market Technology Awards.

The Markets Technology Awards, part of the Risk Awards, recognizes the achievements of technology vendors, trading platforms, law firms, clearing houses, and all of the people who help make the industry run. …

As we see a rise in developer advocacy across the tech industry, the importance of developer experience rises with it. This has created a huge opportunity for design to make an impact. Eclipse Codewind met this challenge head on, and as a result won silver in the New York Design Awards 2020 developer platform/tool/framework category.

The New York Design Awards, run by DrivenxDesign Award Programs, recognizes design that leads the way in technology and innovation. …

The IBM Automation Decision Services (ADS) design team is closing out 2020 on a strong note as Platinum level winner of the Spark Design Awards’ in the Digital category. As we plan to head into the winter holidays, I couldn’t be more excited to see our designers recognized for the hard work they put in this year.

The Spark Design Awards is an international design competition that seeks to “promote better living through design.” The evaluation criteria focused on innovation i.e., does the design “Spark,” i.e., innovate, change the game
and in some way help humanity or the environment we live…

This effort involved a close working relationship between design, development, offering management, and marketing.

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat brought us new opportunities to lead in cloud, and our design organization wasted no time jumping at them. I’m proud to announce that Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud won Product of the Year in the BIG Awards for Business in the Enterprise category.

Launched in 2012, the BIG Awards for Business gives global recognition to outstanding companies, their products, their people, and their tactics. …

Our designers take on ambitious projects in order to solve complex problems. I see up close the talent, grit, and humility it takes to do that well. I’m excited to share that Fast Company’s 2020 Innovation by Design Awards honored Watson Discovery as a finalist in their user experience category.

Innovation by Design embraces creative work at the intersection of design, business, and innovation. Several acclaimed designers, executives, and thought leaders sat on the jury this year to find and promote exceptional work in our industry. …

Our design team at IBM Cloud has been working incredibly hard this year, and I’d like to share another exciting result of our efforts. We’ve won a 2020 Good Design Award for Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud in the Digital Design: Apps and Software category. I’m so proud of our team for their passion and dedication to delivering quality work, and I’m thrilled that these efforts have been recognized by this award.

The annual Good Design Awards is Australia’s oldest and most prestigious international award that recognizes design and innovation. The awards celebrate the best new products and services…

8 ways to infuse trust into your AI experiences

At IBM, we’re building software solutions that help our users make smarter decisions faster. In the world of data and artificial intelligence (AI), it all comes down to designing products our users can trust enough to help them make those important decisions.

This focus on trust goes beyond data security and validation, it’s about helping our users understand their data, providing relevant recommendations when they need it, and empowering them to create solutions they can be confident in.

As we designed our end to end AI platform IBM Cloud Pak for…