Category Mobility
Motion presence – a Motorola field study on sharing motion information
Alcatel-Lucent’s Alex and Lucie on user-centric experience
Book: Mobile Persuasion
The Economist features work by Swisscom anthropologist Stefana Broadbent
New experience design school in the Netherlands cancelled
Vodafone’s Receiver magazine is “at home”
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver magazine (#18) is entitled “at home” and is introduced as follows: Digital media are entering the connectivity as a matter of course era, and they are entering the “home zone”: the home (for many…
Interview with Mike Kuniavsky
Tamara Adlin, a user experience consultant in Seattle, just published a long interview with Mike Kuniavsky on her interesting website UX Pioneers. Mike Kuniavsky (blog) researches, designs and writes about people’s experiences at the intersection of technology and everyday life.…
The Times profiles Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase
Web 2.0 is not for India
Avnish Bajaj, co-founder and Managing Director of Matrix India (the $150-million India fund of Matrix Partners, a global venture capital company) thinks Web 2.0 is not for India: “I think people are wasting their time on Web 2.0 in India.”…
Nokia global user study on where people carry their phone
Carlo Ratti and Régine Debatty featured in Ventiquattro magazine
Last Saturday (14 April), Carlo Ratti of MIT’s Senseable City Lab and Régine Debatty of we-make-money-not-art.com were featured in a six page article in Ventiquattro, the magazine of the highly regarded Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (somewhat comparable to…
New experience design school in the Netherlands
Living Labs conference in Belgium
Small PCs present big problems for users and interface designers [AP]
Cogito Ergo Nomics [The Truth About Cars]
Business Week interviews Nokia’s Jan Chipchase
Qualitative research leads to new bicycle “for fun”
When Japanese bike part manufacturer Shimano set out to make a bicycle aimed at America’s dwindling group of casual bikers, they enlisted the help of design consultancy IDEO, and embarked on a qualitative research and design process that eventually lead…