Europe Zips Lips; U.S. Sells ZIPs [The New York Times]
The U.S. looks at privacy largely as a consumer and an economic issue; in the rest of the developed world, it is regarded as a fundamental right. Read full story
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Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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RSS entering corporations [Information Week]
In a world of content overload–with e-mail always pushing information and thousands of web sites pulling us–more people are using RSS readers to cope. The grassroots technology, used for the past few years by bloggers and news junkies, is finding…
Indigenous people bridging the digital divide [World Changing]
Indigenous peoples are using both digital and narrative media to preserve and express their cultures and beliefs. Often this involves adapting media and technology to what the people need, rather than pushing them into a pre-digested or “mainstream” model of…
Creating emotional bonds [Los Angeles Times]
The Los Angeles Times has a feature story on emotional design, examining how emotions drive decisions and how designing with emotion in mind is becoming steadily more important. The story includes comments by Tim Brown, chief executive of IDEO, design…
The social impact of gaming [The Economist]
Is it a new medium on a par with film and music, a valuable educational tool, a form of harmless fun or a digital menace that turns children into violent zombies? Video gaming is all these things, depending on whom…
How mobile phones changed the face of the news business [BBC]
Mobile phones have turned members of the public into reporters and camera crews – “citizen journalists”. The media are hungry for their digital images and eyewitness accounts. Read full story
From science cities to science parks: new models for innovation
Axel Soojung-Kim Pang, research director at the Institute for the Future and lead blogger of the Institute’s Future Now website sent me some thoughts on how the isolated, autonomous science city has now been displaced by the model of…
Making Meaning: The Business of Experience Design
Making Meaning: The Business of Experience Design is a book about how people make meaning in their lives and how companies can use this understanding to create more meaningful and successful products and services. In this book, the authors Steve…
Creativity that goes deep [Business Week]
Firms everywhere want to revolutionize themselves by turning design-oriented. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as hiring a chief design officer and declaring design as your top corporate priority. To generate meaningful benefits from design, corporations will have to change in…
Ethiopia’s digital dream [The Guardian]
Ethiopia, one of Africa’s poorest countries, is spending one tenth of its GDP every year on IT. Over the next five years, the government plans to invest more than $100m (£56m) in public sector computers. It aims to equip hundreds…
Harness the power of mobile phones [International Herald Tribune]
Recent experiences in the struggle against terrorism have shown not only what a critical role the public plays in preventing and responding to crises, but also the importance of a widely available tool the public can use to prevent terrorist…
Core77 on industrial design in China
Sick of hearing about design and China? So were Bruce Tharp and Stephanie Munson. They got on a plane and went there. Read full story Related: the top 10 myths and truths about design in China
Thomas L. Friedman upset [The New York Times]
“I’ve been thinking of running for high office on a one-issue platform: I promise, if elected, that within four years America will have cellphone service as good as Ghana’s. If re-elected, I promise that in eight years America will have…
Another Italian blog
After posting a link to Lele Dainesi’s blog yesterday, here is another Italian-language blog. Carmelo Cutuli (see bio) has a blog about “economy, technology, groups and social networking”. I got a hold of him through LinkedIn, where he is…
DUX2005 conference in San Francisco
ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH and AIGA are co-organising the 2005 edition of the Designing for User eXperience conference (DUX2005), focused on how the needs and goals of both users and businesses can be met through design. The conference will take…
RE:activism | Re-drawing the boundaries of activism in a new media environment
An interesting conference RE:activism | Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media environment (unfortunately, the site’s Flash version is really annoying) will take place October 14-15, 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. The conference, which is is co-organised by four…
Who thought up famous brands? [Cincinnati Enquirer]
Starbucks, Swiffer, iPod. Who came up with these ideas? What company executives recognised their value? What team put the manufacturing wheels in motion, and who developed the patent, marketing and branding processes? Welcome to Craig Vogel‘s world. Since the internationally…
Mash-ups in Italy
A friend of mine, Lele Dainesi, manages Mash-ups in Italy, a blog on the “rise of cut & paste culture”. It is all in Italian, but insightful if you understand the language. As part of the nicely designed blog, Lele…
John Thackara critisises the EU’s “tech first” approach
John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, just posted a critical comment on how the EU’s innovation and research programmes put an emphasis on tech rather than on people. For instance, the EU’s Information Society Technologies programme contains, according to…
Business Week infographs on innovation
Take a look at these diagrammes and infographs providing insight into the innovation process: its failures, its successes and its opportunities. Interestingly, Business Week identifies customer understanding, customer experience design, strategic design and foresight as the most promising routes for…