Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Philips released today the April issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. The current issue starts with an introductory article on designing for emerging markets by Stefano Marzano, CEO and chief creative director, and then…
HP yesterday announced new technologies, created by researchers in HP Labs India, which are designed to help grow opportunities in rapidly expanding economies. The technologies, which primarily focus on India but also address markets in China, Russia and Brazil, are…
Intel Corporation just launched an innovative PC platform that has been developed exclusively to meet the needs of rural villages and communities in India. Designed as a result of defining locally relevant computing solutions based on Intel technology, the Intel-powered…
The number of mobile telephone subscribers in Africa has risen from 8 million, five years ago, to 100 million, Kenya`s information and communication minister Mutahi Kagwe said Tuesday. He said one in every nine Africans subscribes today to a mobile…
[New flexible work] arrangements are bringing jobs to thousands of people with disabilities, including those with spinal cord injuries and vision loss. Fast computers and broadband connections have become so inexpensive and reliable that location is now not an issue…
A new look at what makes up accessibility. “Did you know that up to 25% of all visitors on your website have some kind of accessibility problem. Some of your users may be blind, deaf, dyslectic, has learning disabilities or…
The University of Dundee’s Department of Applied Computing is looking for people who accept the potential advantages of new technology but whose experience is more pain than pleasure. It wants to explore how fear of change can be reduced by…
Inclusive design is about ensuring that environments, products, services and interfaces work for people of all ages and abilities. Many people are interested in this, but there is no ready source of information, methods, tools and examples to help them…
A challenge to the traditional view that new technology will widen inequality in the future comes from the UK Government’s Social Exclusion Unit. The new report shows how technology is already improving life chances and public service delivery, and is…
With the help of screen-readers–programs that speak the text on the monitor–and magnifying and contrast-enhancing features, the approximately 260,000 blind and 10 million vision-impaired people in the United States have a way to access the Internet, which has become critical…
About two months ago, I complained in this blog about the fact that i2010, the EU’s website on digital inclusion and participation, was about the opposite of accessibility and inclusivity. I sent the same message to the cabinet of the…
MIT has established seven so-called Fabrication Labs in places as distant as Norway and Ghana. Each lab has tool sets that, costing about $25,000, would be out of the reach of most fledgling inventors. Advocates of such “Fab Labs” think…
Under new policies and initiatives from its Ministry of Communications, Italy is turning to Wi-Fi and WiMAX to make broadband Internet access more universally available throughout the country. On October 4th, the Minister for Communications, Mario Landolfi, issued a new…
Bruce Nussbaum, who writes a column on innovation and design for Business Week, reflects today on the IDSA/HP Design About on BOP–the bottom of the pyramid. “Gary Elliot, the vice president of brand marketing for HP, talked about “Me-ism” in…
The Workshop on Digital Inclusion and Participation in Brussels on 23 September 2005 aimed at setting the scene for the EU’s i2010 ambitions: an inclusive information society that provides high quality public services and promotes quality of life. It involved…
The upgraded digital divide: are we developing new technologies faster than consumers can use them? TiVos and Treos and BlackBerrys. Wi-Fi and HDTV and plasma screens. Picture phones, digital cameras, iPods and now iPod cell phones. Complexity among consumer technology…
As companies seek a better understanding of their customers, designers explore more user-centred methods and educators introduce social issues into the curriculum, the time is right for inclusive design. That was the encouraging message to emerge from the third Include…
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…
As part of Turin’s Olympic Truce activites, the city’s government bodies are promoting an international meeting on 19-20 September 2005 to discuss cooperation, best practices and financial tools to narrow the “digital divide” as a guarantee for ensuring just and…
The HP research on Innovation for Emerging Economies is done from Bangalore, India, where they tackle such issues as the access divide, the communications divide, the need for contextual design, the language divide and the lack of sustainable business ecologies…