Category Challenges
FORERA, a European Foresight agency
Eldy, an operating system for the elderly
Mobile user interfaces – it’s time for a new paradigm
Innovation through design thinking
Anthropologists help IT focus on how employees really work [Computer World]
Focusing on the ideal user experience
UK Design Council launches Design Factfinder to demonstrate the value of design for business
RFID: Frequency, standards, adoption and innovation
Banks creating a better branch experience
Nokia design director describes second stage of mobile communications
This afternoon Nokia’s Design Director Marko Ahtisaari talked about “Mobile 2.0: Social Renaissance†at Reboot 8.0 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In his talk, which is summarised by Nicolas Nova on Pasta & Vinegar, Ahtisaari described the second stage of mobile communication.…
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…
International Herald Tribune to carry stories written by members of the public
The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public, writes The Guardian. A deal with a South Korean news website, OhmyNews International, could see so-called “citizen…
Ecosystems and product innovation
The rise of crowdsourcing [Wired Magazine]
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Just as distributed computing projects like…
Social networking goes mobile [Business Week]
Clothes make a statement electronically [Christian Science Monitor]
User-centered innovation at Intel [Electronic Business]
In a three-part special report of Electronic Business, Herman D’Hooge, innovation strategist in the User-Centered Platform Solutions Division at Intel, explains how a company can use a user-centered innovation process to engineer and develop innovative products. D’Hooge also gives an…