Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Sustainability
Design for the other 90% controversy
Design for the Other 90%, the much lauded exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York on how design can address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor and marginalised, has been severely criticised by…
Turin 2008 on Italian slow design, Irish design innovation and doing good
Web special on factors that make a city great
A large chunk of the latest issue of Monocle magazine on the 20 most liveable cities in the world is freely available via the International Herald Tribune. All the content is linked from the introductory article “Urban Manifesto: Factors that…
slow+design, examining the slow approach to design
Designing for deterioration
Cameron Sinclair’s Open Architecture Network [Business Week]
Like AdSense, which has given Madison Avenue executives the collective jitters, the Open Architecture Network (OAN) suggests that 2.0’s cocktail of collaborative technologies can have an equally radical influence on business and industry practices. In the case of the OAN,…
Business Week on John Thackara’s sustainable design approach and what business is learning from it
Recent stories on the Turin 2008 World Design Capital website
A few months ago Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken started doing some writing for the Turin 2008 World Design Capital website, and will continue to do so until the end of 2008. The site has just been refreshed with an interview…
The Slow Home movement
Bringing together nature and technology, tradition and vanguard in southern Italy
Nokia and Vodafone create ShareIdeas
John Thackara on designing with people to address climate change
Robot future poses hard questions [BBC]
Experientia launches Italian version of Putting People First
We are very pleased to announce that we have created an Italian version of Putting People First. Siamo molto lieti di annunciare la realizzazione di una versione italiana di Putting People First. It contains summaries of all the articles of…
Some of my favourite blogs nominated for Webby award
Bruce Nussbaum asks if designers are the enemy of design?
NESTA launches £20m initiative to stimulate social innovation
UNESCO publishes survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies
Doors of Perception taking on the global food crisis [Business Week]
Diane Brady of Business Week reports on The Doors of Perception conference in Delhi which focuses on applying design thinking to modern challenges in food, water and waste. “John Thackara is doggedly pragmatic. The British design guru likes nothing more…