Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Experience designers work in the retail industry, says Fast Company
Experience designers are top of the list in Fast Company’s overview of the “10 Hot Jobs for 2007”. We are also positioned as people who work in the retail industry. The list, which has been compiled with trend forecasters, “takes…
Nokia Research on Uganda’s Village Phone initiative
Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research are on a roll. Following a July 2006 field study in Uganda, and previous presentations on shared phone practices and street charging services, they now explored the Village Phone initiative between the…
Nokia presents video scenarios of the future
Governments should focus on connectivity, content and copyright to support user-generated content
World Economic Forum briefing materials
Interview with LIFT 07 conference organisers
Convivio, the European network for human-centred design of interactive technologies, has published an interview with Laurent Haug and Nicolas Nova, two of the organisers of LIFT 07, a conference that will be held in Geneva on February 7-9 2007, focused…
User centered design at Sony
2-year course on design for retail experience at India’s National Institute of Design
“With new malls and retail outlets mushrooming all across [India], thanks to the retail boom, it’s no wonder then that the National Institute of Design (NID) has come up with a unique course called Design for Retail Experience“, writes Kumar…
ThingM: channelling boundless data into specific user experiences
Bruce Tognazzini on the iPhone user experience
Corporate intranets apply Web 2.0 for user benefits, reports Nielsen Norman Group
Intranets typically avoid the over-hyped fads that wash across the Web, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, whose research firm Nielsen Norman Group today announced the winners of its seventh annual intranet design contest. This year, rather than avoid the…
SAP launches new All-in-One version [CIO]
Massive Change and the City
In conjunction with the Massive Change exhibit that recently ended in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago Department of the Environment organised a one-day symposium that brought together experts in urbanization, energy, evolution, information, wealth…
Book: Informing Digital Futures – Strategies for Citizen Engagement
Customer-centered experience design: creating loyalty in an experience economy
NUWeb: A project for Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user!
The user experience scene in China
Amit Pande, who manages Oracle’s User Experience practice in Bangalore, wrote an interesting post about his impressions of the user experience scene in China. “First, let me start with saying that like many others in the technology & design space,…
Nokia research on street charging services in Uganda
Uganda is a country coping with a severe energy crisis resulting in frequent power cuts. In addition, access to mains electricity in rural locations is limited. Given that mobile phones require power, and access to power can be unpredictable –…