Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Innovation
Interview with LIFT 07 conference organisers
Convivio, the European network for human-centred design of interactive technologies, has published an interview with Laurent Haug and Nicolas Nova, two of the organisers of LIFT 07, a conference that will be held in Geneva on February 7-9 2007, focused…
ThingM: channelling boundless data into specific user experiences
Massive Change and the City
In conjunction with the Massive Change exhibit that recently ended in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago Department of the Environment organised a one-day symposium that brought together experts in urbanization, energy, evolution, information, wealth…
NUWeb: A project for Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user!
The user experience scene in China
Amit Pande, who manages Oracle’s User Experience practice in Bangalore, wrote an interesting post about his impressions of the user experience scene in China. “First, let me start with saying that like many others in the technology & design space,…
Nokia research on street charging services in Uganda
Uganda is a country coping with a severe energy crisis resulting in frequent power cuts. In addition, access to mains electricity in rural locations is limited. Given that mobile phones require power, and access to power can be unpredictable –…
Social media making inroads at USA’s fastest growing companies
UK think tank Demos on education for a digital generation
First thoughts on the user experience of Apple’s iPhone
Human-centred design at GE’s health-care unit [Business Week]
Business Week writes about how GE’s health-care unit went to design students at the Art Center College of Design for out-of-the-box ideas that are focused on people rather than technology, take a systems approach to problem solving, and are culturally…
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…
Usability as strategy (or Usability 2.0)
Nokia research on shared phone practices
What happens when people share an object that is inherently designed for personal use? Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research set out explore this topic during a July 2006 field study in Uganda with a brief to understand…
Alcatel-Lucent CTO sees telco future of “comminfotainment” [International Herald Tribune]
Vodafone’s Receiver magazine on gaming and playing
Can mobile phones give you ‘presence?’ [International Herald Tribune]
Design 21, a social design network, in partnership with UNESCO
Design 21: Social Design Network is an online community, created in partnership with UNESCO, where members of the design community, socially conscious individuals, local governments, businesses and non-profit organizations (NPOs) can address social concerns and create smart solutions through design.…