Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Design Council presentation on designing new public services
Yaniv Steiner speaking on rapid prototyping at World Usability Day Italy
Last Tuesday people across the globe attended World Usability Day gatherings and events, an initiative promoted by a professional association called the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA). Experientia partner Michele Visciola is the president of UPA-Italy, and in that capacity he…
European Market Research Event – Day 1, afternoon
During the afternoon sessions of the European Market Research Event, I attended presentations by Clive Grinyer of France Telecom Orange, Sarah Pearson of ACB/University of Sussex and Francesco Cara of Nokia. There is also a short write-up of a talk…
European Market Research Event – Day 1, morning
Experientia interviews Anne Kirah, senior design anthropologist at Microsoft
Anne Kirah (bio) is senior design anthropologist at Microsoft’s MSN Customer Design Centre. In this interview, she talks on the importance of taking off your blinders and focusing on the real lives of real people. She discusses her work at…
Making the case for ease, elegance and endurance
Experientia shows gesture-based interface at international art fair
In London next week
Bad usability calendar
The People will be heard: Interactive technology in public spaces
Interview with author of Designing Emotions book
Marco van Hout, who manages the blog Design & Emotion, just published an interview with Pieter Desmet, the author of the book “Designing Emotions”, about product design and emotions. Here is Marco’s introduction to the interview: “Dr. Pieter Desmet is…
Digital utopia
The Guardian magazine devoted to Web 2.0
Weekend, the colour magazine of the British newspaper The Guardian, is devoted to web 2.0. It includes a lead feature by award-winning novelist John Lanchester, which doesn’t contain a lot of new insights, but provides a good overview of the…
Gannett to crowdsource news [Wired News]
Book: The Cell Phone – An Anthropology of Communication
“Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This…
Goodbye, mobile phone bills. Hello, advertising. [International Herald Tribune]
Pitching itself as the world’s first advertising-supported phone company, a Finnish company called Blyk plans to roll out a free mobile phone service next summer aimed at 16- to 24-year- olds, first in Britain and then elsewhere in Europe, writes…
Waking up to a surveillance society
Why the “online office” won’t work for now
Adidas sports performance store in Paris: it is all about the interactive experience
The Germany-based sportswear brand opened its Mi Innovation Center on the Champs-Elysées. It’s a tech, fashion, and custom-design wonderland, writes Business Week. “At the futuristic 1,750-square-meter store, the largest Adidas store in the world, shoppers can browse the latest trends…