Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
“Why not transfer money and efforts from the end (advertising) to the start (R&D) of a product life cycle”, asks David Carlson, the well-known Swedish design entrepreneur, in the June 2006 issue of the David Report, a new bimonthly newsletter…
Introducing the winners of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs), Bruce Nussbaum writes in Business Week: “Managers everywhere are turning to rapid ethnography, usability, special materials, and aesthetics—the tools of design—to innovate.” He then goes on to discuss the…
Asian countries lead the world in creating digital homes, with Taiwan and Korea at the forefront, says a study. The research, carried out by US market research firm Parks Associates, looked at digital living trends in 13 markets in Asia,…
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) just launched the official website and event registration for the 2006 World Usability Day, a global series of events on November 14, 2006 to promote awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.…
The International Herald Tribune reports on how in Japan mobile phones can provide highly-site specific internet services: “If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today, you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, a restaurant or a…
Martin Hardee, director of web experience at Sun, writes in his blog about how Mark Wehner, design researcher at Yahoo! presented best practices for using comic book panels in the design process at the Usability Professionals Association annual meeting earlier…
WorldChanging, the online publication covering tools, models, and ideas for building a better future, has an interesting article on branding experience instead of stuff: “One of the fundamental insights that’s helping us re-imagine our lives in a brighter, greener cast…
The 34 EU member states on Wednesday signed up for the “Internet for all” action plan, designed to ensure that the most Web-disadvantaged groups can get online. The EC has now pledged to increase broadband coverage across the continent to…
The blog of SmartLab, an interesting new lab in Torino devoted to social media, went live yesterday. SmartLab is the acronym of the Social Media Application Research & Tagging Laboratory established in March 2006 by CSP and the IT Department…
The Sino European Systems Usability Network (SESUN) is an EU funded project developing active and sustainable links between the Chinese and European IT communities, as well as promoting HCI / usability within China and facilitating the design of a new…
The Washington Post has a long story about innovation in China and what the Chinese leadership is doing to stimulate it. “Instead of millions of Chinese youths assembling somebody else’s inventions, the party leadership has concluded, the time is right…
The latest edition of Nokia’s online magazine Culture of Mobility is devoted to Mobility and Development, exploring how mobility can make a difference to the environment, society and the way we live. The magazine features an introductory report on how…