Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Innovation
In China, dreams of bright ideas [The Washington Post]
The Washington Post has a long story about innovation in China and what the Chinese leadership is doing to stimulate it. “Instead of millions of Chinese youths assembling somebody else’s inventions, the party leadership has concluded, the time is right…
To charge up customers, put customers in charge [The New York Times]
Putting the customer in charge [CNN/Business 2.0]
Interaction-Ivrea’s final show
Transforming everyday objects into game controllers
Control Freaks, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Haiyan Zhang, “explores new gaming experiences that fold the world into play by using existing situations and environments as game playing moments.” “Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them…
MULE: reclaiming the city through pervasive play
Designing meaningful coincidences
Occasional Coincidences is the title of the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Nicholas Zambetti. It looks at how systems that recognize and present meaningful coincidences can be designed. A few days ago, Régine Debatty summarised the project on we-make-money-not-art: “In the…
Discover and experience location-based services
Morphing and transforming objects as new interfaces
Patchwerk, a social tool to analyse popularity and status in the digital world
Thimble, a location-based social network for lending and renting using reputation as currency
Pooptopia, a pet waste removal urban game
Pooptopia, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Aram Saroyan Armstrong, is a pet waste removal service/game that explores the interplay of service design and entertainment. A few days ago Régine Debatty summarised Pooptopia on her own blog we-make-money-not-art as follows: “Pooptopia…
uni.me, a new mobile communication service centred on people’s availability
What if a mobile phone could provide easily glanceable information of people’s availability? To answer that question, Ana Camila Pinho Amorim developed uni.me, a new mobile communication service and Ana’s graduation project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. uni.me supports us…