Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Three French companies, with an assist from the Finns and the Swedes, have combined their ingenuity to come up with a digital pen-and-paper system called PaperPC that, broadly speaking, digitises anything you can write with a pen. What makes it…
You can outsource product design to a third party, which in turn may use big chunks of external intellectual property; you can outsource physical manufacturing; and now, you can even outsource your research and development. […] What’s left? Not to…
Five years ago, at Swedish giant financial services giant Skandia, Lief Edvinsson became the world’s first director of intellectual capital. He quickly set out to revolutionise the corporate accounting with a new framework for measuring intangibles: the company’s valuable “soft…
First there were TVs. Then came PCs. Now, mobile phones are becoming the ‘third screen’ for viewing video. Read full story
The most powerful thought leader and business development conference in Silicon Valley has started and AO readers can watch it live on the web. Go to website
David Kelley, founder of industrial-design firm IDEO, is making headway in his dream of transforming design departments from that quirky corner where everyone wears clunky shoes to a central part of the product development team. Read full story Listen to…
WWF and SustainAbility, an independent think-tank, have recently released a new report revealing the strength of links between corporate responsibility practices and government lobbying and public policy activities of major global corporations. The report, Influencing Power, ranks the world’s top…
This podcast focuses on customer experience design and the impact it has on business. A first for experience design? [Update: it turns out that Kyle Coolbroth has been featured before in a podcast. So this is not the first experience…
It’s become popular to disparage focus groups. What people often hear is that research is bad, or people who rely on it are lacking in leadership ability. Most of the people making these disparaging comments about marketing research are also…
India’s approach seems quite similar to that of the West — lay out some semi-official ground rules, then encourage (but not require) builders to meet them. China’s approach, conversely, seems to be more revolutionary than evolutionary — build sustainable cities…
Sun leads way in telework — working not just from home but anywhere. Sun is on the leading edge when it comes to “telework” — a coinage that nowadays replaces the term “telecommuting” because it encompasses not just working from…
Information overload infects the enterprise as much as the individual, but companies are more likely to pay for a cure. Read full story
As most of us know by now, customer personas and scenarios are vehicles for helping an organisation continuously keep their customers in their line of sight. This report discusses how the Arc Worldwide’s Experience Planning group (a division of the…
The BBC News website reporters attending the TEDGlobal (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford sum up their impressions as the gathering ends. Read full story
Rambling in the countryside has never been so popular, but a conference this weekend, hosted by the Living Streets charity, will examine how taking a daily stroll down the High Street can breathe new life into towns. Read full story
Internationally renowned designer, sustainability architect and author of Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough, argued at the TEDGlobal (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford, UK, that we can only think of our future cities if we think about what our…
Website lets Americans see what the world’s non-English publications say about US policy. The headline reads, “Columbus’ Discovery of America: History’s ‘Biggest Mistake.’ ” That might sound harsh to an American audience, but it’s less likely to ruffle Iraqis reading…
There is a perverse hypocrisy about the whole jobs debate, especially in Europe. The colonial powers invaded countries like India and China, pillaged them of their treasures and commodities and made sure their industries weren’t allowed to develop, so…
The best way to help developing nations is to recognise that development is “of the people, by the people and for the people”, says a Bangladeshi entrepreneur. Iqbal Quadir, Grameen Phone founder in Bangladesh, told experts gathered for TEDGlobal in…
China’s biggest IT brand wants to go global. So it bought the PC division – and the world-class management – of an American icon. Who says being “oceans apart” is a bad thing? Read full story