Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Michael Hawley, user experience director of Mad*Pow published an article about card sorting as a user-centred tool to reorganise information-rich web sites. “Card sorting is an appealing research technique to assist in the organization or re-organization of an information-rich Web…
“Despite the rapid development of the internet, the overall goal of designing an intuitive, easy to use website has not changed,” says Mona Patel, executive director of Human Factors International. “The challenge that exists is how to gauge customers’ emotional…
Joannes Vandermeulen is a practitioner and teacher of Interaction Design. In 1987, he founded Namahn, a consultancy for user-centred design of software and online products, based in Brussels. Johannes was one of the keynote speaker at the German IA conference…
Many mobile service providers are failing to capitalise on potentially lucrative corporate contracts because they don’t focus enough on client’s business needs, according to Gartner. Service providers that don’t update their sales strategies to provide tailored solutions to businesses risk…
The UK Design Council sponsored conference InterSections 07 brought together 34 leading thinkers in design to consider how design is evolving and how this is affecting its relationships with other fields. The conference, held in NewcastleGateshead in October 2007, asked…
Jakob Nielsen has published the executive summary of his study of 56 intranets. The study documents intranet IA processes and the resulting designs, both in terms of the visible user interfaces and the underlying structures. The report contains detailed profiles…
At last week’s 7-Minute Soapbox in Waterloo, Canada, Declan Whelan of Whelan & Associates talked about how to fit user experience/design/usability into an agile development process. There is a crisis in the software world! Well, I’m not sure if you…
An article in the New York Times cites recent surveys challenging the notion that smartphones are ready for primetime: Surveys by Yankee Group, a Boston research firm, show that only 13 percent of cellphone users in North America use their…
Jesse James Garrett, who coined the term AJAX, says that consumers want a personal relationship with the products they use, reports PC World. The inventor of the term AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), urged attendees at The Rich Web Experience…
Apple has been progressively changing its retail store format over the past year, eliminating cash registers while introducing several new services and increased staffing, to create a more personalized and friendly environment for customers, reports MacNN in an article entitled…
Now that Donald Norman‘s new book, The Design of Future Things, has been published, the man is on a book tour and interviews with him are popping up left and right. After a first one on Core77 (see also this…
The Wireless World Initiative (WWI) has developed prototype user-centred systems that will potentially enable millions of people to make the most of third-generation (3G) and beyond mobile technology to work, relax and play any time, anywhere. ICT Results reports back…
Aparna Kalra reports in Mint, a new Indian business newspaper produced in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal, on how the trend of cool hunting – and then innovating – in India by companies also illustrates how the country is…
From an article in the E-Commerce Times: “In today’s business world, losing any customer or partner is expensive and unnecessary. It costs up to 10 times more to acquire a customer than to keep an existing one, according to Gartner.…
The people at Smashing present what they call “some of the outstanding recent developments in the field of user experience design.” The very visual feature contains an overview of the most recent tactile and touch interfaces. (via UX Magazine)
The French newspaper Le Monde has published a special report on Samsung, including a highly visual special on Samsung’s design strategy, which by the way features glimpses of a few rather interesting looking presentation slides (the design goal is to…
The Experience Project (EP), which launched a public beta about a year ago, is built specifically around the concept of remaining anonymous while socializing, explains Josh Catone of Read/Write Web. The site has grown to 250,000 members, almost 60% of…
In “Responsibilities and Implications: Further Thoughts on Ethnography and Design“, presented a few weeks ago at DUX2007, UC Irvine professor Paul Dourish continues to elaborate on the use of ethnography in human-computer interaction and the “implications for design” issues he…
Umpqua Bank has opened its new store concept in Portland, Ore’s South Waterfront neighborhood. The store will serve as Umpqua’s Innovation Lab, showcasing emerging and existing technologies that foster community and redefine what consumers can expect from a banking experience.…
Last week Joe Lamantia, a New York-based user experience and information architecture consultant, gave the closing talk at the Italian IA Summit in Trento, entitled “The DIY Future: what happens when everyone is a designer?”. In his seemingly very interesting…