Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Allison Arieff writes in the New York Times Opinionator blog extensively on how citizens harness technology to offer up solutions to problems in their communities. “What if there were a way to transform complaints into something positive and productive? What…
The amount of data that can now be collected about how drivers use their cars is unprecedented, reports the BBC, and the impact of so much information is potentially huge. The article highlights the innovative role of Fiat, which has…
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently became one of Canvas8′s newest Thought Leaders, lending his insights and knowledge to the site’s growing archives of articles and interviews on cultural global trends. Canvas8 draws on the knowledge of recognised industry thought leaders…
David Wigder, Vice President of Business Development at RecycleBank, explores on Marketing Green the rise of the peer-to-peer green economy, and in particular the three emerging peer-to-peer models that can facilitate greener transactions: “Online models challenge the notion of permanent…
A group of young designers are making their mark on Nicosia’s urban scene by creatively redesigning “misused public spacesâ€. “Our goal is to give solutions on how these spaces could be used,†said designer Marina Hadjilouca, one of the founders…
Using your mobile phone to do your banking and to buy goods and services is becoming more common, with the rise of the smartphone. In developing world countries like Kenya, the technology to do this has been around for several…
Last week, Experientia was in Busan, South Korea, at the invitation of the Busan Design Center. As part of its first Design Week, the Center organised two international conferences: one – the Busan International Design Congress – had “Digital Energy”…
ITID (Information Technologies & International Development) has come out with a special issue devoted to papers emerging from the second Harvard Forum on ICTs, Human Development, Growth and Poverty Reduction (audio cast). The two-day Harvard Forum II was sponsored by…
Data use and smart human-centric data visualisations are becoming the “next big thing” in UX design. A number of posts this week delve into the matter: Data for a better planet Now that more people have location-aware smartphones and the…
The newest billion people to venture online are doing so in developing countries rather than North America or Europe, writes Erik German in Globalpost, and they are changing the culture of the internet itself. “Researchers say the web as it…
In a very general overview article published in Newsweek, Ravi Somaiya reports on how the impact of the ubiquitous device extends from politics to business, medicine, and war. “More than 4 billion of the 6 billion people on earth now…
In a long blog post, designer and developer Alexander Dawson discusses some important privacy-related concerns — in particular, how asking for too much information can degrade the overall user experience. “A user’s experience of a business and its services will…
Italian social researcher Chiara Camponeschi has written a fascinating Creative-Commons licensed publication, The Enabling City: Place-Based Creative Problem-Solving and the Power of the Everyday (pdf), an innovative toolkit – also featured on a website – that showcases pioneering initiatives in…
Jon Kolko has published on UXMatters a sample chapter of his forthcoming book, Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis. Read chapter
Ravi Nessman reports from Mumbai, India. “The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No…
CNN has an interview up with Nigel Waller, the CEO of Movirtu Limited and the man behind their Cloud Phone, writes Core77. Waller dropped the surprising statistic that worldwide there are one billion people who use cell phones–but don’t own…
To fully understand what’s wrong [with Nokia], we’ve got to understand what’s been right, or to put in another way, what’s distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world. “The phone’s small size makes its extremely portable, and…
Wired’s Gadget Lab posts five big ideas that are currently under development at Nokia Research Center that reveal some intriguing possibilities on how we will interact with our devices in the future. Touchscreens everywhere Nokia researchers are experimenting with turning…
Socially responsible design, writes Julie Lasky in Metropolis Magazine, is a whole lot harder than it looks. “While nearly all of this work is well-intentioned, almost none of it amounts to anything concrete,†points out a magazine editor I know,…
Some great news from the RCA this week: Design Interactions Research The Design Interactions program at the Royal College of Art, led by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, has launched a brand new research site, showcasing projects done by tutors,…