Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Nokia global user study on where people carry their phone
Experientia contributes to Torino 2008
The new website of Torino 2008 World Design Capital contains an editorial section, managed by Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken, with interviews, profiles of design centres, essays and some commented articles from the international press that together provide an international window…
User research on how people consume news
Carlo Ratti and Régine Debatty featured in Ventiquattro magazine
Last Saturday (14 April), Carlo Ratti of MIT’s Senseable City Lab and Régine Debatty of we-make-money-not-art.com were featured in a six page article in Ventiquattro, the magazine of the highly regarded Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (somewhat comparable to…
Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches Torino GEODESIGN
Yesterday I went to a press conference by Torino 2008 World Design Capital at the Milan Design Fair which presented TORINO GEODESIGN. TORINO GEODESIGN (described in more detail in this Core77 article) is an international competition which will bring designers…
New experience design school in the Netherlands
The revolution will be televised and then switched off
NESTA call for user-focused solutions to mental health problems
The UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling for innovative project proposals from front-line workers, carers and people with direct experience of mental distress, to tackle some of the key challenges surrounding mental health in…
In Europe, the social network as digital friend [International Herald Tribune]
New tricks and old dogs
How Second Life changes customer service
Ubiquitous computing is messy
Some of my favourite blogs nominated for Webby award
Simplicity: the ultimate sophistication
Experience or don’t experience. There is no try.
Consumer technology: is “ease-of-use” a myth?
A panel recently discussed the growing problems with product design features vs. the cry for “make it easy to use†and where designers and developers have to address this issue to win back consumers. Speakers were Bill Moggridge, founder of…