Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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The face of the $100 laptop [Business Week]
Business Week features a long story on Sugar, the breakthrough graphical user interface on the so-called $100 laptop. User testing only started this February when about 2500 beta test machines were shipped to beta testing countries, an approach that received…
KPMG on how digital media are affecting work, play and relationships across Europe
Social networking for 9-year olds [Newsweek]
Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred toy company by involving their users to an…
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan [AP]
Yuri Kageyama (blog), AP Business writer, reports: Visit Japan’s top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong “Mixi,” and you’ll see prim, organised columns and boxes of stamp-size photos – not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The…
Kids, the internet and the end of privacy: the greatest generation gap since rock and roll [New York Magazine]
Toy fair becomes tech fair for kids [Wired News]
Internet boom in China is built on virtual fun [International Herald Tribune]
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]
Nickelodeon begins a web site focusing on interactive play [The New York Times]
Tadam: reinventing the puppet theatre experience
Futurist John Seely Brown: To fix education, think Web 2.0
Students’ new best friend: ‘MoSoSo’ [Christian Science Monitor]
Experience designers work in the retail industry, says Fast Company
Experience designers are top of the list in Fast Company’s overview of the “10 Hot Jobs for 2007”. We are also positioned as people who work in the retail industry. The list, which has been compiled with trend forecasters, “takes…