Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Culture
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 [BBC]
Cinema 2.0 project in Turin
Indian lawmakers caught in Web 2.0 [India Times]
“The virtual (internet) network of people has always been a problem for [Indian] lawmakers,” reports Ritwik Donde in Infotech, an online technology news source of the India Times. “One of the problem with internet has been that it is impossible…
Social networking for 9-year olds [Newsweek]
Envisioning the whole digital person [UX Matters]
Excellent feature article by Jonathan Follett in UX Matters: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitised—from the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster,…
Users who know too much [CIO Magazine]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on understanding alternative scenarios for the future
Today is International Slow Day
Videos of “Digital, Life, Design” conference online
Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred toy company by involving their users to an…
Internet users transformed into news reporters [AFP]
User research in a different world
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan [AP]
Yuri Kageyama (blog), AP Business writer, reports: Visit Japan’s top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong “Mixi,” and you’ll see prim, organised columns and boxes of stamp-size photos – not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The…
10 TouchPoints: design for everyday life in Singapore
The Economist on the end of the cash era
Anne Kirah: “When culture meets technology and when technology meets culture”
Anne Kirah, until recently Senior Design Anthropologist at the Microsoft Corporation, spoke recently about her experience in developing software user interfaces that are based on local cultural conditions. The 50 minute talk, which can be seen in video stream, was…