Experientia website now also in Italian
We just finished the Italian version of the website of Experientia, the new experience design company that I am a partner of. Any comments from our Italian readers are more than welcome.
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Innovation
Fast Company profiles fast cities
Fast Company and Richard Florida’s team just published a small report on up-and-coming hubs for creative workers–places that draw people who are talented, tech savvy and tolerant. Ten of them are in the United States, another five elsewhere in…
HP’s front lines of innovation [Business Week]
As Hewlett-Packard’s director of design and brand experience, Sam Lucente’s job is to use insights from the design, technology, and marketing fields to enhance the consumer’s interaction with HP products. In an interview with Business Week, he talks about the…
Shopping for innovation
What you need to know before hiring a design firm Steve Portigal and Niti Bhan write about what you need to consider when bringing on strategic design services and hiring a design firm and focus on three key issues: The…
Business Week discusses innovation labs
Much of the critical work on the Razr, Motorola’s half-inch-thick, ultralight cell phone was done at a downtown Chicago innovation lab known as Moto City — rather than solely in the company’s sprawling traditional research and development facility in…
Philips Design CEO Stefano Marzano featured in Business Week
The current issue of Business Week has devoted an extensive feature to Dr. Stefano Marzano, CEO and Creative Director of Philips Design. “Marzano’s passion lies in humanising technology. His goal is to make homes and offices less cluttered with bulky…
Business Week reviews IDEO’s most recent book
Business Week just published a review on Tom Kelley’s new book “The Ten Faces of Innovation” (see also my earlier post). Though critical of the fact that all insights are filtered through only one design consultancy, IDEO, the reviewer praises…
Motofuture, Motorola’s vision of the future
Motofuture is a (broadband optimised) site where Motorola presents its vision of the future. Through a series of of people-based future scenarios the company introduces its prototypes of products and services. The site was design by Digit and features a…
European research needs a wake-up call, says EU
Not just industrial jobs are under threat from China, India and other emerging economies, but also jobs in knowledge-based industries as these countries combine growth in low-skill, low-wage manufacturing with an expanding presence in innovative, hi-tech sectors. This was the…
Show it and Tell it
“The burgeoning field of strategic design is splitting up into an artful and a scientific design approach. Hard, explicit skills give the scientific agencies the upper hand in becoming innovation partners for global business. That is why design agencies need…
Perspectives on Design and Strategy
“Perspectives on Design and Strategy: Points of view from the 2005 Institute of Design Strategy Conference”, published by the Institute of Design, IIT offers interviews with several contributors on the subject of how design in starting to appear in general…
The innovation toolbox
A dramatic transformation is occurring within the design industry. Front runners among strategic design agencies are working in increasingly complex projects and are starting to redefine their role and services in relation to corporate clients. This development is taking place…
Cows milk themselves, down on the robotic farm [The Times]
It’s not for people, but is definitely is “experience design”: Farmers have teamed up with scientists to create a farm where the cows choose when they want to be milked using automated booths. The parlour, developed in Holland, is already…
Experientia site launch
Today we launched the website of Experientia, the new experience design company founded by business specialist Pierpaolo Perotto, usability expert Michele Visciola, user experience strategist Jan-Christoph Zoels and communication strategist Mark Vanderbeeken. The site contains plenty of information on who…
Ultimate newspaper of the future?
“Strange that Inform.com, the latest online newsreader, didn’t include its own much-promoted launch in today’s inaugural Lead Story headlines. It didn’t make its own business or tech sections either. Not even entertainment. Remarkable editorial restraint, I’d say, for a startup…
In-depth interview with Tom Kelley of IDEO
Dave Iverson of San Francisco public radio station KQED interviews Tom Kelley, the general manager of IDEO, about his new book The Ten Faces of Innovation. The 45 minute interview focuses on how to encourage and recognise daily innovation and…
Experience economy presentation by e-Strategic Research
“The experience economy: the evaluation of emerging market opportunities for growing your business” is the title of an e-book presentation by e-Strategic Research, inc, the California based market research consultancy. The e-report offers a synthesis of theory and practice as…
Cell phones reshaping Africa [CNN]
Cell phones made up 74.6 percent of all African phone subscriptions last year, says the U.N.’s International Telecommunication Union. Cell phone subscriptions jumped 67 percent south of the Sahara in 2004, compared with 10 percent in cell-phone-saturated Western Europe, according…
Philips field testing in the favelas of Brazil
Voices in Your Hand is a humanitarian project, sponsored by Philips Electronics, to create a simple, voice-email handset and cheap audio services to help urban shantytowns and isolated rural areas in the developing world, overcoming illiteracy or minority languages. The…
The design of things to come
From strategy, brand and innovation to product, service and experience Businesses fifteen years ago referred to everything as product, and the focus was on how to make those products robust. A new life insurance policy was referred to as a…