Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The narrow, cobbled streets of Cordoba in southern Spain are no place for a car, but Alfredo Romeo, a Spanish entrepreneur wanted to change that and set up a business with “blobjectsâ€, electric hire cars that are proving popular with…
Cellphones are already used for music downloads, text messaging, and video games. But here in South Africa, they are beginning to perform another function: personal piggy bank. With the new technology, a grandmother in rural area can receive money from…
The global future forum, which originated within Unisys, is an independent partnership of futurists, academics and businesspeople, committed to helping organisations extend their strategic planning horizons, and better prepare for the future. It offers business a single point of access…
Slower is better. That’s just one of many unconventional ideas about creativity that are taking shape inside the restored yellow mansion, on Atlanta’s Peachtree Road, that BrightHouse calls home. The 17-person company, founded in 1995, works with only one client…
Africa is the world’s fastest-growing cellphone market, a boom that has taken the industry by surprise. From 1999 through 2004, the number of mobile subscribers in Africa jumped to 76.8 million, from 7.5 million, an average annual increase of 58…
What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be “flow,” and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it. Read full story
In this publication the Danish Government* presents initiatives within five new strategic target areas designed to create favourable frameworks capable of reinforcing development and growth potential in the culture and experience economy. The five target areas include the sports industry,…
The following CPH127 post features an analysis about innovation strategies in Denmark, but the implications of this reasoning are relevant for many other European countries. “During the last year there has been a lot of discussion in Denmark around how…
To prepare students for an evolving information-based society, architects are designing innovative schools to support new models of teaching and learning. Read full story (Related story: Students at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School don’t just study textbooks to learn about…
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Mobile phones have made people less organised and more willing to be late when meeting their friends, according to a survey.Nearly one in five people admitted to being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the “safety net” of a mobile.…
In his blog Chris Lawer of The OMC Group just posted a copy of the presentation he gave to the research panel at Cranfield University School of Management. The pdf paper defines the “story of co-creation”, explores his research question,…
Polar Electro, the innovative leader in heart rate monitoring, and adidas, one of the world’s leading sports brands, have formed a partnership that will introduce the world’s first completely integrated training system. Called “Project Fusionâ€, it seamlessly integrates Polar heart…
The latest ‘Big Bang’ in information-sharing is free, and its flagship already gets more traffic than the New York Times and USA Today combined: Meet the ‘wiki.’ Read full story
This month, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. will release a mobile phone able to slow down speakers’ voice speed. The key targeted users are the elderly, reveals Tech-on. The speed converter technology slows down speakers’ voice speed up to 0.7x, so the…
6 August 1991: Tim Berners-Lee posts the first website. Fourteen years later it is impossible to imagine the world without the internet. A Guardian profile on Tim Berners-Lee.
Design used to be associated purely with aesthetics. Today it has been embraced by business leaders and is advocated for social policy development. Nico Macdonald (blog) investigates these claims. Read text-only version Download laid out version (pdf, 176 kb) (via…
The forthcoming 2005 State of the Future report will outline what it considers to be the 15 greatest challenges facing humanity. Jerome Glenn, director of the Millennium Project, gives us a preview and a glimpse of some of the changes…
Mobile phones are used in Asia in strikingly innovative ways. In Japan, there have been stories of schoolgirls writing messages on scraps of paper, photographing them with their phones and then e-mailing them to friends. In Korea the third biggest…
MEX, the PMN mobile user experience conference, will take place on 6 and 7 September 2005 in London. The two day conference provides insight into all aspects of the mobile user experience, including technology platforms, design strategy and the commercial…