Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Innovation
Philips Design magazine on foresighting techniques, health and ‘sensitive’ interactions
User-centred design not so good when designing breakthrough products
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a…
Executive briefing on customer centred innovation
Of tails and walls [International Herald Tribune]
“The old model [of the global marketplace] was one of control,” said Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and author of the book “The Long Tail“, while he was recently in Paris. “Companies could control the user experience, and they…
Interview with Stanford design school director
Customer-centric digital signage in retail environments
“A retail executive who is considering a digital signage system shouldn’t let the tail wag the dog,” writes Peter Vrettas in Extended Retail Solutions. “Content, rather than hardware or software, drives digital signage. And the best digital signage systems are…
GE’s Kitchen of the Future with more talking refrigerators
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
Denmark’s largest companies launch user-driven innovation academy
Digital wellbeing and deglamourising choice [WorldChanging]
Philips: LiveSimplicity
Trendwatching.com on status skills
Philips reveals new design innovations at the 2006 Simplicity Event
Futurelab on learning, social software and games
European versus American innovation
No more SMS from Jesus: ubicomp, religion and techno-spiritual practices
In a reflective and insightful paper, Dr. Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and director of user experience at Intel, analyses the use of technology to support religious practices. Bell argues that “the ways in which new technologies are delivering…
My customer, my co-innovator
Fab Labs deliver innovative solutions to local needs [Christian Science Monitor]
Fab Labs are different than the myriad other nonprofit programs working to introduce technology to disadvantaged communities. The MIT professors who came up with the Fab Lab concept believed that rural villagers in India, sheep herders in Norway, and impoverished…