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
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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…
The experience of a luxury airline [Business Week]
How do you launch a luxury airline that simply has to stand out from the pack? As the recent demise of Delta’s Song indicates, finding profitable ways to improve the air-travel experience isn’t easy, even at premium prices. How does…
Usability design yet to gain ground in India
Usability is an approach to product development that incorporates direct user feedback throughout the development cycle in order to reduce costs and create products and tools that meet user needs. India may have achieved global recognition as an IT…
Italy aggressively pursues Wi-Fi and WiMAX
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 on businesses co-creating products and services with consumers in developing countries
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…
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…
Nokia’s mobility site now devoted to mobile imaging
Nokia has updated its “culture of mobility” online magazine with a feature on mobile imaging. It is in their words, “an exploration of the creation, and creatives, behind the trend that’s reinventing the media landscape.”
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…
MIT and Nokia create joint research lab
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Nokia Research Center announced a research collaboration to advance the state of the art in mobile computing and communications technologies. CSAIL and Nokia will establish a…
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…
Building in green [Newsweek]
Can China move 400 million people to its cities without wreaking environmental havoc? Eco-urban designer William McDonough says yes—and Beijing is listening. Beijing is now orchestrating an industrial revolution, hoping to telescope into a few decades what it took Western…