Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
A long article on the Telco 2.0 blog entitled “Nokia’s dilemma: operator friend or foe?” has some interesting passages on presence and mobile devices in it. Here is an excerpt: “At Nokia’s own internal thought leadership conference in Helsinki nearly…
Bruno Giussani reports on the press conference announcing the LIFT08 conference programme (backgrounder): The conference LIFT08 will take place for the third time in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6-8 February 2008. The main structure of the programme has been presented tonight…
Business Week reports on how, with the success of the iPhone, mobile-phone players want to improve menus and other navigation tools on their handsets. “Of all the ways Apple’s iPhone is disrupting the mobile-phone industry, one of the most tangible…
Phil Keys writes in Tech On how Japanese companies drew the attention of participants to their research at “Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC2007),” an event concerning ethnographic research at companies. There were programs related to researches conducted by Fujitsu…
The always very well-informed Internet Actu blog has posted an article by Bruno Marzloff, a sociologist and the driving force behind the Chronos Group, a research lab specialised in mobility and dislocation. Marzloff reflects on the future of our relation…
Virtualhosting.com has published a top 100 of user-centred blogs, that provide “the latest and greatest in the people-centric field of design”. The selected sites also cover themes such as accessibility, web standards, and interfacing. I am pleased to say that…
Lucas Pettinati has published a long article on the design challenges for mobile user interfaces on the Yahoo! User Interface Blog. The single most important concept to master when designing mobile device interfaces is “contextâ€. The context in which an…
The latest issue of Frog Design Mind (permalink), the bi-monthly newsletter of Frog Design Inc., is devoted to identity and contain a rich group of articles on “the struggle to find new meaning in the growing landscape of design”. Here…
Via Richard Florida’s blog, I found out about a new paper on “The Creative Class and Regional Growth in Europe” by Ron Boschma and Michael Fritsch from the Max-Planck Institute of Economics in Germany. Florida summarises it as follows: “They’ve…
Thoughtful Interaction Design A Design Perspective on Information Technology Jonas Löwgren and Erik Stolterman MIT Press, 2007 ISBN: 0262622092 212 pages The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual technical concerns of usability and usefulness to consider interaction…
Mobi Ad Network has published an interview with Blyk’s Marko Ahtisaari where he talks about the design of the service, user testing, targeting and personalisation. Blyk – the first completely ad-supported MVNO – launched this week in the UK market.…
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