Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
A few years ago, a wireless “digital pen” developed by the Swedish start-up Anoto Group was poised for a splash. Leveraging scanning technology and assisted by “smart” paper, the trumped-up ball-point pen technology was designed to capture handwriting and convert…
CNN asked leading thinkers for their thoughts and ideas about the challenges facing the world. Norman Forster: Building a sustainable future Two trends will affect global practice over the next two decades: the need to pursue sustainable patterns of development;…
WOMMA is the official trade association for the word of mouth marketing industry. WOMMA’s mission is to promote and improve word of mouth marketing by protecting consumers and the industry with strong ethical guidelines, promoting WOM as an effective marketing…
One night in Barcelona last year, a young Dutchman named Antoine Hazelaar received a strange proposition from the owner of a local nightspot, the Baja Beach Club. The club had just started a new programme called “VipChipâ€, he was told,…
Boao has been, for the past four years, the site of the Forum for Asia, China’s attempt to create a Davos-style World Economic Forum for Asia. Its air-conditioned, artificial reality is designed to show that China has made it: that…
A new research centre has been established at Oxford University in the UK with the aim of tackling the greatest problems facing the world today. The James Martin 21st Century School aims to achieve this goal in an ‘innovative and…
Jyri Engeström posted a long and interesting blog entry about cities, technology and creativity. “[…] During the course of the last decade, computers have become the most important platform for remixing culture. It is likely that computer-based creativity will flourish…
Retailing, the High-Tech Way From in-store cameras to data-mining loyalty-card use and beyond, retailers are depending more and more on technology to boost sales E-Tailing: It’s All About Service Turning surfers into shoppers requires new levels of help online. The…
Cheap computing, infinite bandwidth, and open standards are powering an epic technological transformation that will churn up huge new opportunities — and perils for those who can’t adapt. Read full story
Philips makes experience design the heart of all its design efforts: “Experience Design is about creating and specifying the quality of a person’s experience throughout the entire period of engagement with a value proposition such as a product. Experience Design…
New value by One Design is Philips Design’s quarterly magazine. It aims to illustrate how design can create value for all types of business, focusing on the creation of innovative design that leads to meaningful experiences. Some recent articles: –…
E-mail, video, and all sorts of stuff now rendered in bits and bytes never really disappear and can be easily copied. Privacy? Hah! Read full story
Iranian artist Seyed Alavi created a 50 metre long carpet for a pedestrian walkway in the Sacramento Airport imprinted with aerial imagery of the region — a modern take on the “flying carpet.†Alavi’s carpet was created by Ulster Carpets,…
Within Nokia’s new well-designed website is a subsite called culture of mobility. It contains a hip presentation of reports, trends and insights on mobile culture. Nowadays mobility represents more than movement: it encompasses all lifestyles, all industries, all forms of…
When Mariane Polfliet discovered that she had an emergency meeting in a hard-to-reach suburb of Amsterdam last week, there was no need to panic: Within minutes, she used a computer-coded electronic car key to drive away in one of the…
The thirteenth issue of Illywords, Illy’s cultural magazine, is devoted to ethics and responsibility. You can request a free copy of this issue, which is entitled “conscious project”, by sending Illy an email.
There is a transformation taking place in the newspaper business, where top-down, voice-of-God journalism is being challenged by what is called participatory journalism, or civic or citizen journalism. Under this model, readers contribute to the newspaper. And they are doing…
While any observer can see and feel the changes that mobiles have on our lives, actually measuring the impact is altogether more difficult. There is considerable research under way, and Vodafone’s far-reaching studies are helping to find answers. The new…
Robert Congel, a commercial real-estate developer who lives in upstate New York, has a plan to ”change the world.” Convinced that it will ”produce more benefit for humanity than any one thing that private enterprise has ever done,” he is…
Responding to booming demand in Asia and in Europe, Wyse Technology, a venerable maker of computer terminals, is adding new development teams in India and China and expanding its worldwide work force to about 380, from 260. Its profits…