Category Challenges
Major usability and accessibility initiative launched in the UK [BBC]
Firms turn R&D on its head, looking outside for ideas [Boston Globe]
Defeating feature fatigue [Harvard Business Review]
Stanford conference ponders world with machines more powerful than their creators
Rotman Magazine on the Creative Age
How to build a better product – study people [PC Magazine]
PC Magazine just published a long feature story on how anthropology is moving into the corporation. Product development has historically been predicated on a “build it and they will come” basis. But times are changing, consumer choice is increasing and…
Microsoft updates “Tech Tomorrowland” [PC Magazine]
LeadUsers.nl
Customer Experience is an organisational challenge, suggests business school research
Trendwatching report on businesses and co-creation
Design as play
Usability: it ain’t easy [TelecomAsia.Net]
With more advanced services rolling out across the planet, ease-of-use is becoming crucial to their success, but today’s user interfaces aren’t quite cutting it. Solving that will be a complex task, but the place to start is the users –…
When street ads give you a ring [International Herald Tribune]
Siemens magazine with foresight scenarios
PsychNology, a journal on the relationship between humans and technology
Where’s the phone? A Nokia study of mobile phone location in public spaces
Mobile computing in high-end retail
As mobile computing becomes increasingly popular in the fashion retail industry, challenges emerge pertaining to usability, system tailoring, and enhancing the manager-client user experience. These issues were addressed at LA Promotion (a facility where selected clients can acquire products three…