Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
According to Tom Stewart, the new version of ISO 13407, the International Standard for Human Centred Design (which will be called ISO 9241-210 to bring it into line with other usability standards), will use the term “user experience”. Stewart is…
Architecture and design magazine Icon has published a 4 page article on video ethnography in its latest issue. “The video ethnographers’ findings are gold dust to their clients and video ethnography has become one of the fashionable research techniques that…
Luca Chittaro (blog), who covers the CHI 2008 conference in Florence for Novà , the innovation supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s business newspaper, continues his hectic schedule of interviews: It’s all about the (digital) money Interview with Scott Mainwaring…
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, has written a long post about making sense of value in a world in which many digital goods are available for free. “The internet is a copy machine. At its most…
The Norwegian Design Council is organising a European Business Conference on Inclusive Design, 5-6 May in Oslo, Norway. Would you like to know how inclusive design can help you create new products and services? How design methods can take you…
The latest David Report bulletin, called “I shop therefore I am”, looks into the world of consumer culture from different point of views; ethical, social, political, economical and humanistic. Shopping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and…
Business Week reports on how Indians are using their cell phones as a “one-stop shop” for everything from e-mailing to banking. A growing group of Indian consumers who want more from their phone than just talk time. […] Indians spent…
Luca Chittaro (blog), a professor at the University of Udine, covers the CHI 2008 conference in Florence for Novà , the innovation supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s business newspaper. He is already at the pre-conference workshops where he is…
Matt Jones used to be director of user-experience design at Nokia. Now he is the co-founder of Dopplr, a social networking site for frequent travellers. Ryan Freitas of Adaptive Path recently had a long conversation with him that you can…
The UK Department for Children, Schools and Families launched last week its eagerly anticipated Byron Review into Children and New Technology. It contains a comprehensive package of measures to help children and young people make the most of the internet…
Paul Marks examines in the New Scientist how far people are prepared to go in accepting robots as social partners. “Duke is careering noisily across a living room floor resplendent in the dark blue and white colours of Duke University…
Firefox 3 hasn’t even launched yet, and the talk is already moving to Firefox 4. Mozilla Lab’s push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it’s running on, and…
Trendwatching published a feature post about status-yielding stories. Their central thesis: As more brands (have to) go niche and therefore tell stories that aren’t known to the masses, and as experiences and non-consumption-related expenditures take over from physical (and more…
Luca Chittaro will keep a running blog (in English and Italian) during CHI 2008 where he promises “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer interaction”. Chittaro, who is a professor at the University of…
“By 2020 the terms ‘interface’ and ‘user’ will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans,” is the first sentence of a short article on the BBC News site. According to the BBC, “it is one of the predictions…
It’s all over the Italian press (the winners) and the Turkish press (the losers), and on a small number of international news outlets: Milan will host the 2015 Universal Exposition (a.k.a. “Expo” or “World Fair”). In a day and age…
Next week on 8 and 9 April I will be at CHI 2008, the international conference that this year is taking place in Florence, Italy. On Wednesday afternoon you can find me in the panel on Interactions Magazine, that Richard…
The New York Times writes about a new wave of Silicon Valley companies that are bringing live socializing into online social networking Web sites: Compared with other forms of human interaction, online social networking is really not all that social.…
Last week I wrote about Clay Shirky’s new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations. Now WorldChanging has published an extensive interview that Jon Lebkowski did with him: Clay Shirky is an influential writer, consultant, and teacher…
Stowe Boyd, an internationally recognised authority on social applications and their impact on business, media, and society, published today an interesting reflection on the fact that conversation online has moved away from the blogs that once seemed the nexus: “Basically,…