Category Culture
A theatrical approach to experience design
Index and AIGA team up on ‘social design’
John Thackara on designing with people to address climate change
Telling stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet – often simultaneously
The Economist features work by Swisscom anthropologist Stefana Broadbent
Web 2.0 is the web as it was originally envisioned – the internet of things is the real departure
The user is the content
Google photos stir a debate over privacy [The New York Times]
New experience design school in the Netherlands cancelled
Spanish translation of Experientia interview with Anne Kirah
Luis López Toledo, a Chilean industrial designer, has published a Spanish translation of the interview I did last year with Anne Kirah, former senior design anthropologist at Microsoft’s MSN Customer Design Centre, and currently dean of the new 180º Academy…
UK report on culture, participation and the web
The New Yorker on the feature paradox
Vodafone’s Receiver magazine is “at home”
The latest issue of Vodafone’s Receiver magazine (#18) is entitled “at home” and is introduced as follows: Digital media are entering the connectivity as a matter of course era, and they are entering the “home zone”: the home (for many…
CHI 2007: when user experience becomes religious experience
Young women now the most dominant group online in the UK
Pew/Internet typology of information and communication technology users
Half of all American adults are only occasional users of modern information gadgetry, while 8% are avid participants in all that digital life has to offer. The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey designed to classify Americans…
Social lending gains net interest
“Now there is a wave of sites trying to convince people that the web is the place for their money,” writes Katie Ledger of BBC’s Click Online. “The concept is called social lending and the idea is to introduce people…