Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Category Elderly
Designing the user experience of a phone for the elderly
Improving the lives of those with dementia and their carers through design
Healthcare insurers conduct ethnographic research and test prototypes to provide more personalised experiences
Consumer technology: is “ease-of-use” a myth?
A panel recently discussed the growing problems with product design features vs. the cry for “make it easy to use†and where designers and developers have to address this issue to win back consumers. Speakers were Bill Moggridge, founder of…
Experience Design Lab project on care for the elderly
The TRIL Centre: ethnographic research on ageing to develop healthcare technologies for the elderly
Two-thirds of Brits use just 4 functions on their phones [Cellular News]
UK Design Council on user-centred design and experience design
UK foresight studies identify emerging trends over the next 50 years
Via the BBC I found out about the Sigma and Delta foresight scans, with nearly 250 papers that look ahead at developments over the next 50 years. The research was commissioned by the UK Office of Science and Innovation‘s Horizon…
Living old
France Telecom on disability and innovation
From designing for the elderly to designing for social inclusion
Participatory design – and why it’s more than user-centred-design
In a reflective article written as a follow-up to the Participatory Design conference held a few weeks ago in Trento, Italy, Ann Light dissects the difference between participatory design (PD) and user-centred design (UCD). “What is the status of the…
Aging in the 21st century [The New York Times]
Mature users seek uncluttered mobiles, claims research
Rachel Jones, founder of the UK user-centred design company Instrata, writes in Usability News about new research by her company which “set out to discover what consumers in the UK and other European countries aged 30 and upwards really want”…
Older people ‘missing out’ online [BBC]
Older people are missing out on critical services because they do not use the internet, a report says. Just 28% of people over the age of 65 have home internet access, compared to a UK average of 57% of households.…
Web accessibility soon mandatory in Europe? [CNet News]
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…