User-centred design not so good when designing breakthrough products
Andy Budd on user experience design and user-centred design for the web
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a…
Jakob Nielsen on getting more users to contribute
IBM invests $100 million in usability [CNET News]
Gartner: Prepare for consumer-led IT [CNET News]
Fabrica at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Established in 1994 on the initiative of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica is a communications research centre whose range of activities extends from graphic design to cinema, taking in industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music on the…
Video material on experience design
Executive briefing on customer centred innovation
Of tails and walls [International Herald Tribune]
“The old model [of the global marketplace] was one of control,” said Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and author of the book “The Long Tail“, while he was recently in Paris. “Companies could control the user experience, and they…
Interview with Stanford design school director
Customer-centric digital signage in retail environments
“A retail executive who is considering a digital signage system shouldn’t let the tail wag the dog,” writes Peter Vrettas in Extended Retail Solutions. “Content, rather than hardware or software, drives digital signage. And the best digital signage systems are…
Interview of BT futurologist Ian Pearson
GE’s Kitchen of the Future with more talking refrigerators
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
World Usability Day on 14 November – major event in Milan
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organises on 14 November 2006 its second global World Usability Day, with events in more than one hundred cities around the world. The World Usability Day event in Italy, which is also aimed at a…