Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Mobile services strategist and fellow Belgian Rudy Dewaele asked me to pitch an upcoming innovation conference in Barcelona. Although not directly related to human-centred design, as a major foresight and innovation conference it merits attention: The Art Center Global Dialogues:…
Use8 is a new UK-based society (and non-profit organisation) that aims to bring together students, professionals, academics and industry who are interested in the user experience design discipline. The society establishes a forum and promotes engagement through organising events that…
Too often, web users get lost in the cracks between Search, Browse, and Ask. Web analytics will enable designers to create truly integrated finding experiences predicts information architect Lou Rosenfeld in a long article on Adobe Design Center’s Think Tank.…
As medical devices transition from hospital to home, device manufacturers must create a positive experience for users, argues Matthew Jordan, director of research and interaction design at Insight Product Development, in a long article in Medical Device Link. Certain macrotrends…
The Boston Globe ponders what happens now that women are wielding increasing influence in a high-tech world that has been largely built and engineered by men, and how that changes the technology itself. No one would make the argument that…
A recent Apple patent application shows mockups of a Mac OS X gesturing control panel with options to configure standard trackpad, basic multitouch, and advanced multitouch settings. The patent application depicts how one could customise advanced gestures for editing operations…
Apparently Donald Norman, who is coming to Torino, Italy in less than a month, has made a deal with Interactions Magazine to allow him to publish his contributions online, even before the magazine comes out. His newest delightfully written piece…
Three publications by NESTA (the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts) examine the role of the creative industries. Beyond the creative industries maps the state of the creative economy in the United Kingdom, and measures their contribution…
Broadband analyst group Point Topic says that it has identified six main types of users of mobile Internet. With uptake of mobile Internet services growing rapidly, Point Topic believes that six distinct clusters of users are emerging – road warriors,…
While a blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best recent advance in the mobile telecommunications user space came not from a mobile telecom company but from Apple…
Just like any other innovative company in Europe, Experientia is sometimes faced with very tough immigration laws. Hiring someone from outside the EU is quite a challenge and sometimes results in us loosing out on the opportunity to attract really…
Rosenfeld Media has just released its first book Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy With Human Behavior by Indi Young. There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is…
Information Week published a long story about location-aware technologies. “Even more difficult than employees’ privacy concerns will be those of consumers, once companies start reaching people based on where they are. For years we’ve heard the notion of a coupon…
February’s issue of Mechanical Engineering is focused on the role of human factors in design. The lead article, the new point of view, discusses the renewed importance of human factors in product design, with a veritable who’s who of IDSA…
Business Week carries a short article about how Humanized co-founder Aza Raskin is carrying on the design legacy of his father, a Macintosh pioneer. “Aza Raskin wants your computer to disappear, but the 24-year-old is no latter-day Luddite. His goal…
This paper by Tamar Sadeh describes a product that was released in May 2007—the Primo system from Ex Libris as an example of a new type of interface for searching and obtaining library materials, an interface designed around user needs…
“Amid the marketing blitz and pumping music of the show floor [of the Mobile World Congress] it is often difficult to pick out the trends which will have a real impact on the user experience,” writes Marek Pawlowski of MEX…
Several blogs report on the user experience session of the recent LIFT conference. Read what Nicolas Nova, Tom Hume, and Bruno Giussani had to say.
David Malouf, an interaction designer for Motorola Enterprise Mobility, explains the ins and outs of interaction design in a long article aimed at the industrial design community, published on Core77. Malouf thinks “poor attention [is] being paid to bringing interaction…
Most of the presentations of the recent Interaction 08 conference are now online. Here they are in alphabetical order of the speaker’s last name: Cinematic Interaction Design, Sarah Allen, Laszlo Systems (synopsis) Concept Ideation and IxD, Gretchen Anderson, Lunar (synopsis)…