Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Harvard Business Review features user-centered innovation as breakthrough idea for 2007
The Harvard Business Review has published its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, written out in “twenty essays that will satisfy our demanding readers’ appetite for provocative and important new ideas”. Eric von Hippel wrote the entry entitled “An…
Intentional Software: programming that captures the intentions of computer users [New York Times]
World Economic Forum on Web 2.0 and emerging social network models
Philips integrates experience research in healthcare innovation
Book: Designing Emotions in Online Travel
The new book Designing Emotions in Online Travel by Soraia Cardoso of Sotopia Usability and René Vaartjes, provides new insights on how to arouse positive emotions at travel websites by using specific graphic elements, colours and online functions to ultimately…
Nokia study on how rural India benefits from mobile communications
Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services according to a new study by The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) commissioned by Nokia. Mobile…
Jeffrey Veen chats with Irene Au, director of user experience at Google
Business apps giant SAP gets Web 2.0 bug [CNET News]
Innovation and the prosperity of nations [Core77]
“At the recent Competitiveness Summit, the connections between business and innovation were made starkly clear,” writes Nico Macdonald in a Core77 article. In November 2005 the UK Treasury published the Cox Review of Creativity in Business, addressing “a question that…
Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practices at Intel
Ahtisaari talk on the future of mobility
Students’ new best friend: ‘MoSoSo’ [Christian Science Monitor]
Developing user-centered tools for strategic business planning
Ethnography.com relaunched
“T-shaped” thought key to innovation [The Korea Times]
Why have Korean companies failed to create such iconic devices as Apple Computer’s iPod or Motorola’s RAZR despite their technological prowess, asks staff reporter Kim Tae-gyu in The Korea Times. “The answer by the LG Economic Research Institute to this…
The user experience practitioner as change agent [UX Matters]
Interaction Design Institute for rent
We need macrodesigners, says Uday Dandavate
Experience designers work in the retail industry, says Fast Company
Experience designers are top of the list in Fast Company’s overview of the “10 Hot Jobs for 2007”. We are also positioned as people who work in the retail industry. The list, which has been compiled with trend forecasters, “takes…