Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Experience Matters is the name of a section on the Macromedia website where the company wants to show its customers "what great experiences are, how they deliver better business results and how to create them". "Macromedia is motivated by…
Eventbranche is a Dutch-language blog of Henk-Jan Winkeldermaat where you can view (English-language) videos of recent presentations by Marc William Hansen, chief experience officer at LEGO (on experience co-creation) and by Joe Pine, author of The Experience Economy (on…
Following the publication of Pine & Gilmore’s book “The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage”, the University of Amsterdam founded the European Centre for the Experience Economy to create a place and network for fundamental academic…
The 2007 Bower Award and Prize will be presented to a distinguished scientist in the field of Human-Centered Computing.The Bower Award for Achievements in Science is presented annually by The Franklin Institute to a researcher of any nationality for outstanding…
Karl Long of Customer Experience Strategy reviews shopcomposition.com, a shopping site that sells an extremely eclectic mix of products, it seems like a stylish, urban outfitters for grown ups. The web site is a flash extraviganza that puts boo.com to…
The new version of Mindstorms, Lego’s all-time best-selling product, was developed with the help of a Mindstorms User Panel, with the aim of developing a better product but also a tighter, more trusting bond between corporation and customer. A lengthy…
Some years ago, the media office at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. saw the potential and possibilities of investing time and effort on children as a novel target group for building relations and international understanding. This was the…
Finnish designer Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (aka The HobbyPrincess) argues that small communities will have to radically change their innovation policy in the near future. This will include the moving from strictly institutional, business-oriented idea of innovation and competence development towards an…
Business Week reports on the recent Challenges of Design Promotion in Europe conference which drew new attention to areas where European businesses excel — and fall short A recent conference in Paris, called Challenges of Design Promotion in Europe and…
CNET’s Release 1.0 editor in chief Esther Dyson sits down with ZDNet editor in chief Dan Farber to discuss the upcoming PC Forum conference which takes place on March 12-14, 2006 in Carlsbad, California. The theme of the conference…
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be attending the meanwhile sold out LIFT conference next week. If some of the Putting People First readers are going to Geneva as well, do seek him out. Aside from his role in Experientia, Jan-Christoph…
Over the past decade, Korea’s Samsung Electronics has transformed itself from a copycat producer of uninspiring goods into one of the world’s top consumer-electronics brands. Much of that transformation is due to a shift in power at the company from…
“Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it’s about everything,” writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, “Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic.” Sterling offers…
Apparently a must-read if you work on sites with large amounts of information: Designing for the Scent of Information The essentials every designer needs to know about how users navigate through large web sites By Jared M. Spool, Christine Perfetti…
A new look at what makes up accessibility. “Did you know that up to 25% of all visitors on your website have some kind of accessibility problem. Some of your users may be blind, deaf, dyslectic, has learning disabilities or…
The room looks like a typical child’s playtime fantasy, decorated with bright carpet and packed with toys, games, costumes, and an indoor jungle gym. But it is also lined on one side with windows and on the other with a…
A useful book concentrating on the important “user experience†aspects of design for small screen devices The design of interactive applications or presentations on small screens can be challenging for the designer. Not all design concepts that are valid on…
While the emerging generation’s deftness with technology is a given, researchers say the most potent byproduct may be the feedback factor, which only accelerates the cycles of what’s hot and what’s over. “We think that the single largest differentiator…
The ID-StudioLab of the TU Delft covers research in four areas: designing for the senses, designing and emotion, inspiration engineering and intelligence in products. The challenge of the ID-StudioLab is to shape the conditions for a satisfactory product experience. Traditionally,…
DMI, the Design Management Institute, has just released a free pdf download of a Spring 2005 article by Stefano Marzano, CEO of Philips Design, entitled “People as a Source of Breakthrough Innovation”. “The product visions are startling—jackets with cell phones…