Our story began with a trip to visit the giant panda in China with two colleagues, about 15 years into our User Experience Consultancy business.
In our work with various global companies, we observed that many employees do not enjoy their work. The pressure and stress often have a damaging effect on their health. This led us to embark on our version of a PhD, interviewing people globally, researching work, teams, cultures, philosophies, psychology, history and more.
About two years into this journey, we arrived at a question: How can we Make Meaningful Work? We then developed foundational principles, frameworks, and tools to address this question. We have worked with diverse clients, including children as young as eight years old.
Slowly but surely, with the rise of AI and the impact of COVID-19, more people have developed similar vision, and we are now forming a global community. There is a group of us passionate about empowering people with human skills in this AI era.
Jo is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong.
Jo grew up in multicultural Hong Kong, with a Chinese-Burmese father and Chinese-Indonesian mother. She collaborates with global teams conducting research in Cantonese, Mandarin and English.
Jo is passionate about the environment, political and economic systems and how we can live healthier and happier lives while not adversely impacting less fortunate people.
She co-authored Make Meaningful Work with Daniel Szuc.
Dan is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong.
He has been involved in the UX field for over 20 years, and has been based in Hong Kong for over 20 years. Dan has lectured about user-centered design globally.
He has co-authored three books including Global UX with Whitney Quesenbery, the Usability Kit with Gerry Gaffney and Make Meaningful Work with Josephine Wong.
