IDEO blogs
For years I wondered why IDEO was so little present in the online debate. That has now changed with no less than two new blogs by IDEO: IDEO Labs “IDEO Labs is a place where we can share bits of…
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Experientia
Understanding non-users
Interesting article by Hubert Guillaud of InternetActu.net on understanding non-users (my translation): The French Marsouin research lab just published an interesting study on people who do not use the internet. The study starts off with the various existing typologies to…
Ethnic minority groups continue to lead the way on digital device take-up and use
Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, states that ethnic minority groups are the prime early adopters in Europe, thereby confirming ethnographic user research at Swisscom. “Ethnic minority groups are at the forefront of digital communications in the UK, with high levels…
Cultural aspects of interaction design
The latest issue of the International Journal of Design is devoted to the cultural aspects of interaction design: “When a group of people, no matter its scale, start sharing common ways of thinking, feeling and living, culture emerges. Culture therefore…
How to make open source projects care more about usability and user experience?
Open source projects have historically suffered from featuritis and poor usability (even WordPress, which this blog runs on, has a cumbersome software update). Now a private company is investing in improving Ubuntu, the Linux desktop poster child: “Canonical, the corporate…
The user experience of malware
Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent [Wikipedia definition], and we all hate it. But is there something more relevant to say about the user experience of malware? Yes, because the…
Eataly launching in Tokyo and New York
Eataly, the very successful “slow” and experiential supermarket in Turin, Italy, is now opening branches in Tokyo and New York. According to the La Repubblica newspaper, Eataly will inaugurate its first foreign branch on 26 September in Tokyo’s Daikanyama neighbourhood.…
Philips Design magazine is now an email newsletter
Philips Design magazine used to be published three to four times a year, but the last edition was from July 2007. Now it has been turned into a simple newsletter, that comes to you via email (not rss). The articles…
NLab’s social networks conference
NLab is a lab developed by the Faculty of the Humanities of De Montfort University in Leicester, UK to connect creative businesses with writers and generate pioneering partnerships. In June they organised a very interesting one-day conference on social networks…
Philips exploring the more “intimate” sides of experience design
Philips’ new sex toy range, in other words. Here some excerpts from today’s press release: Philips launches new category of ‘Relationship Care’ with intimate massagers for couples Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) today announced the launch of a new category…
Andrë Braz’s experience design manifesto
The Brazilian experience designer Andrë Braz, who is user experience design manager at the Globo Corporation, has published an appealing Experience Design Manifesto. Here is his reasoning behind it: I have always thought that most designers pay little attention to…
Book: Coming of Age in Second Life – an anthropologist explores the virtually human
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover) by Tom Boellstorff Princeton University Press Hardcover, 2008, 328 pages Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second…
Intel navigating future moneyscapes
Digital technology is changing the everyday forms and experience of money. Cheryl Miller reports on the Research@Intel blog how field research by Intel’s People & Practices Research team identified key themes and opportunities for technological innovation. The researchers presented their…
EuroITV2009 conference
Normally Putting People First doesn’t promote conferences, but this is one organised by a good colleague, held at the Belgian university town where I studied, and on a topic that we at Experientia are professionally quite heavily involved with. So…
Nokia presentations at LIFT 08
Two of the three Nokia presentations at the LIFT Asia conference are now online. Raphael Grignani (Nokia Design, USA) talked about how Nokia Design addresses environmental and social issues including recycling, energy and making the benefits of mobile technology available…
The Adaptive City, an essay by Dan Hill
The Adaptive City is the title of an excellent essay by Dan Hill on recent ideas around urban informatics and urban information design, the impact of real-time data and collaborative planning on urban form, and most of all the changing…
Ambient awareness
The upcoming New York Times Magazine has a long feature on the effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of incessant online contact. “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient…
The techno-mobile life in our networked cities
Nicolas Nova and Bruno Giussani have been blogging two of the LIFT Asia conference sessions that took place in Seoul today. Session: Networked city The new digital layers provided by ICTs are transforming contemporary urban environments. What does that mean…
Book: Mobile Nation
Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms by Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley, editors Riverside Architectural Press (August 15, 2008) Hardcover, 272 pages Mobile Nation explores the emerging field of mobile experience design. The papers in this anthology include essays…
Eight habits and eight ideas at Core77
Two new articles on Core77 caught my interest: Beyond the schlock of the new: eight strategies for design and foresight by Kevin McCullagh [For those from outside the USA: “schlock” is a play of words, referring to both the “shock…