Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Design Anthropology takes user research to a whole new level. Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall explains in an essay on Adobe Design Center’s Think Tank how this emerging field can help to redefine design by exploring what it means to be human.…
A few weeks ago we were contacted by Marco Bevolo of Philips Design who was looking for some advance feedback on the book he is writing together with co-authors Stefano Marzano (also Philips Design), Dr. Howard R. Moskowitz and Alex…
PSFK is a global trends and innovation company that also organises conferences in various parts of the world. Videos of over forty presentations at these conferences are now online. My ten highlights: Allan Chochinov on the Dumbest Smartest Design Problem…
Demos, the UK think tank for “everyday democracy”, has published its latest pamphlet on privacy. “The transformation of our social lives and the increase in surveillance and technological innovations have led us to believe that privacy is in the midst…
Podtech has published a number of audio interviews with senior staff of Alcatel-Lucent on their thinking about user-centric experience, as it informs their applications and solutions. Exploiting end-user trends to create value with sticky services – The “Me” network for…
The Danish programme for user-driven innovation (English summary) aims to strengthen the diffusion of methods for user-driven innovation, and to contribute to increased growth in the participating companies, and to increased user satisfaction and/or increased efficiency in participating public institutions.…
Nokia has over 300 designers worldwide, and ships over 1.2 million products everyday. So Allan Chochinov of Core77 was anxious to attend Nokia’s recent London design event, offering a curtainpeek at their design process, ethnographic wanderings, sustainability initiatives, and plans…
The three-day Changing the Change conference, which is about the role of design research in sustainable change and scheduled for 10-12 July in Turin, Italy, looks to become very interesting indeed. The list of invited speakers and discussants features Bill…
The UK think tank Demos has launched a new publication, The Politics of Public Behaviour, which explores the role of government in influencing people’s lifestyles and everyday decision-making. Abstract: The personal has become political. Increasingly, governments find themselves drawn into…
The May/June issue of Interactions Magazine just came out and some of the content is available online (and more will follow soon). The issue is all about “colliding worlds” with “interactions disciplines” becoming “more appropriately integrated into other creative disciplines…
‘User-centred Design for Sustainable Behaviour’ is a paper by Renee Wever (TU Delft), Jasper van Kuijk (TU Delft) and Casper Boks (NTNU Norway) that explores how to involve users in more sustainable product use. The paper was published in the…
The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) is a site conceived by Microsoft providing user interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide. Microsoft has created it in order…
Reuters report on mobile coupons and gifts in South Korea: oung, tech-savvy South Koreans are making coupon clipping a thing of the past and turning to their mobile phones instead. Some of the fastest-growing mobile phone services in the country…
The Guardian reviews a book that argues that our privacy is under threat by increased digital surveillance. Being able to make your own decisions and hold your own views without interference; controlling information about yourself; and being in charge of…
The (UK) Times reports on how you don’t need a computer anymore to browse people’s profiles. “After the explosion in internet-based social networking (MySpace, Facebook) doing the same thing in real life instead of in front of a computer became…
A series of web pages on the France Telecom/Orange site give an insight in how the company moves from the many ideas that come out of R&D, to a product or service that is ready for the market. In 2005-2006,…
The May issue of UX matters contains an interview with Lou Rosenfeld and Liz Danzico of the publishing house Rosenfeld Media, a publisher of user experience design books. After working on five books as an editor or co-author, Lou Rosenfeld…
Consumer Reports WebWatch released the results of an ethnographic study on how children interact with online environments. The study, “Like Taking Candy from a Baby: How Young Children Interact with Online Environments,” used ethnographic methods and focused on young children,…
The French magazine Chronic’Art recently interviewed Adam Greenfield (Nokia’s new head of design direction) about his recent book Everyware and ubiquitous computing in general. An English version of the interview can be found on Greenfield’s blog. Read interview
At the beginning of March, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID | blog) a symposium on service design. The symposium featured speakers who are pioneers in service design thinking and practice from several countries, including Andrea Koerselman (IDEO), Andrew…