Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Innovation
When computers need human help [The International Herald Tribune]
How to improve it? Ask those who use it [The New York Times]
Ancient manuscript teaches machines how to talk to people
CNBC on the role of customers in business innovation
MBA in Design and Innovation Management
Bruce Nussbaum asks if designers are the enemy of design?
New York Times on interactive mirror in department store
Business Week on the innovation workshops at the Royal College of Arts, London
American Embassy in Rome reaches out via web to discuss innovation and creativity with young Italian entrepreneurs
NESTA launches £20m initiative to stimulate social innovation
New Songdo City, a living lab on ubiquitous computing in Korea
Qualitative research leads to new bicycle “for fun”
When Japanese bike part manufacturer Shimano set out to make a bicycle aimed at America’s dwindling group of casual bikers, they enlisted the help of design consultancy IDEO, and embarked on a qualitative research and design process that eventually lead…
Next step for games: social networking [San Jose Mercury News]
MIT Media Lab Europe founder starts Distance Lab
New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers [International Herald Tribune]
About a year and a half ago I wrote about Zopa, a P2P banking service in the UK, and therefore a potentially disruptive innovation in the financial services sector. The International Herald Tribune has meanwhile discovered it as well: A…
Mobile communication, a professional social network for mobile society researchers
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
Billing itself as a nonprofit venture capital firm, the Acumen Fund uses the principles of design to solve the problems of the poor. Just as the Procter & Gambles and Motorolas of the corporate world conduct extensive ethnographic research on…
A participatory conference model at NESTA, London
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…