Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Last Saturday (14 April), Carlo Ratti of MIT’s Senseable City Lab and Régine Debatty of we-make-money-not-art.com were featured in a six page article in Ventiquattro, the magazine of the highly regarded Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (somewhat comparable to…
Excellent feature article by Jonathan Follett in UX Matters: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitised—from the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster,…
“The digitising of information, the rapid rise of digital information systems, and increased access to those systems by a broad range of people have challenged the way in which we look at specialists and the roles they play”, writes Jonathan…
“Cellphones have long been considered status symbols in developing countries, Iraq included. But in an environment [like Iraq] where hanging out is potentially life threatening, cellphones are also a window into dreams and terrors, the macabre local sense of humor…
My hometown Turin (or “Torino” in Italian) has been selected as the 2008 World Design Capital by ICSID, the international council of societies of industrial design. With this nomination, Turin has been given the go-ahead to organise a series of…
If you had to write your organisation’s obituary, what would it say? Would there be any mourners? Has it made any difference to anyone? Would the world be worse off without it? Would anyone actually notice? Faced with this question,…
Identity 2.0 is a new user-centric and secure concept of identity on the web, rather than the current directory or site-centric one, which is not exactly safe. Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip Identity, made a brilliant presentation of what this…
The Sacred World Foundation was founded several years ago by Ranjit Makkuni, a visionary and designer and a former leading researcher at Xerox PARC. It is a state of the art research and design think tank, located in New Delhi,…
Glocalmap.to (site currently in Italian only) is a large-scale cultural “social tagging” project that integrates web mapping, thematic tagging and mobile phone messaging, to create a new urban narrative for the city of Turin. It allows citizens and visitors alike…
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…
Website lets Americans see what the world’s non-English publications say about US policy. The headline reads, “Columbus’ Discovery of America: History’s ‘Biggest Mistake.’ ” That might sound harsh to an American audience, but it’s less likely to ruffle Iraqis reading…
E-mail, video, and all sorts of stuff now rendered in bits and bytes never really disappear and can be easily copied. Privacy? Hah! Read full story