Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Eight business technology trends to watch
The McKinsey Quarterly has published an article on eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. The authors James M. Manyika, Roger P. Roberts, and Kara L. Sprague have grouped the eight trends –…
Nova, Italy’s engaging innovation supplement
The weekly Nova supplement of Italy’s business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore is by far the most valuable innovation, science and technology forum in this country: serious and thorough, fresh and engaging, up-to-date and challenging. Some of its writers like…
NESTA on place and innovation
NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, well-known for its emphasis on user-led innovation, has published three research reports [blog post] on the attributes of innovative cities and the importance of building effective regional coalitions for…
Microsoft unveils hands-on vision of the future
Software giant Microsoft unveiled some of its future technology at its fourth annual Innovation Day in Brussels on December 4, reports CNN. “From virtual family organizers to tabletop touch-screens, their vision of the future sees technology move from the traditional…
Device art as a resource for interaction design and media art
Nicolas Nova, user experience and foresight researcher working at the Media and Design Lab (EPFL) and at the near future laboratory, is currently in Brussels where he gave a talk yesterday at iMal, a brand new center for digital cultures…
What happens when the $100 laptop actually gets used?
All kinds of things apparently, as described by this revealing story on the BBC, commented on by Bruce Nussbaum of Business Week: “Clearly, children love the machine. Most of them had never seen a computer before and the great design…
Interview with Hilary Cottam
It took Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken quite some effort to schedule an interview with Hilary Cottam, UK Designer of the Year 2005 and former director of RED [archive site], the meanwhile closed innovation unit of the UK Design Council, and…
The Power of Collaborative Innovation principal theme of Davos meeting
The “Power of Collaborative Innovation” will be the theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual meeting in Davos, January 23-27, 2008. Looking to the future, it becomes readily apparent that complexity, competing interests and scarce resources remain the greatest obstacles…
Mobile services in the developed world are a bit behind
Paul Lamb reflects on the dire state of mobile services in America: In Japan it is not uncommon for people to make everyday purchases using only a cell phones. A variety of secure mobile technologies alowing for easy transfer of…
Cats, kids and experience design
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels was profiled last week in “The Marker“, Israel’s number one business and technology newspaper and part of the Haaretz media group. Below is the English translation by Saar Shai. CATS, KIDS AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN by Ora…
Cashless in India
Newsweek reports on how mobile banking in India saves the government and banks money and reduces fraud that plagues the public-distribution system. Mobile phones are making life better for people in remote, underserved areas of India. They no longer have…
User !nnovation Research Initiative Vienna
The User Innovation Research Initiative is a research program which aims to deepen our understanding of the phenomenon of user innovation and is hosted by the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration.…
The EPIC blog is not what you think
The EPIC 2007 conference on ethnographic praxis in industry has a blog, and it’s not what you think. The format is that of a newspaper or magazine advice column where readers can ask questions to a specialist. Each week the…
Are cars too safe? Are user manuals necessary?
In a Business Week interview design guru Don Norman argues for making autos less automated and for infusing gadgets with natural, easy-to-interpret feedback signals. In his new book, The Design of Future Things (Basic Books), Don Norman isn’t afraid to…
Anne Kirah and the 180°academy turning business education on its head
Business Week profiles Anne Kirah, former design anthropologist at Microsoft, and now Dean of the new Danish school called 180°academy, where she is “shaking managers out of their traditional ways of doing things and forcing them, perhaps for the first…
Urban computing and its discontents
A conversation between the authors Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard provides an overview of the key issues, historical precedents, and contemporary approaches to designing situated technologies and inhabiting cities populated by them. “The Situated Technologies Pamphlet series explores the implications…
Philips Design investigating the unknown
The current issue of the magazine of Philips Design contains a long article about the company’s design research approach: “Scientists send probes into deep space in an attempt to get a better understanding of the unknown. Philips Design does something…
Jan Chipchase at TED conference
The TED conference has published its video of the talk by Nokia’s “user anthropologist” Jan Chipchase in March this year: Nokia principal researcher Jan Chipchase’s investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of…
Nokia predicts that you will control 25% of entertainment by 2012
Nokia’s latest study, ‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode’, predicts that within five years a quarter of all entertainment will be created, edited and shared within peer groups rather than coming out of traditional media groups. Trend-setting consumers from 17…