Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Culture
Interview with Adam Greenfield on the user experience of ubiquitous computing
Régine Debatty (of we-make-money-not-art) and Nicolas Nova (co-organiser of the upcoming LIFT conference) have together interviewed Adam Greenfield in which he focuses on the user experience of ubiquitous computing. Greenfield is the principal of design consultancy Studies and Observations, and…
Students’ new best friend: ‘MoSoSo’ [Christian Science Monitor]
IBM launches MySpace-like tools for companies [International Herald Tribune]
We need macrodesigners, says Uday Dandavate
Nokia Research on Uganda’s Village Phone initiative
Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research are on a roll. Following a July 2006 field study in Uganda, and previous presentations on shared phone practices and street charging services, they now explored the Village Phone initiative between the…
Governments should focus on connectivity, content and copyright to support user-generated content
World Economic Forum briefing materials
Interview with LIFT 07 conference organisers
Convivio, the European network for human-centred design of interactive technologies, has published an interview with Laurent Haug and Nicolas Nova, two of the organisers of LIFT 07, a conference that will be held in Geneva on February 7-9 2007, focused…
2-year course on design for retail experience at India’s National Institute of Design
“With new malls and retail outlets mushrooming all across [India], thanks to the retail boom, it’s no wonder then that the National Institute of Design (NID) has come up with a unique course called Design for Retail Experience“, writes Kumar…
Massive Change and the City
In conjunction with the Massive Change exhibit that recently ended in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago Department of the Environment organised a one-day symposium that brought together experts in urbanization, energy, evolution, information, wealth…
Book: Informing Digital Futures – Strategies for Citizen Engagement
NUWeb: A project for Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user!
Nokia research on street charging services in Uganda
Uganda is a country coping with a severe energy crisis resulting in frequent power cuts. In addition, access to mains electricity in rural locations is limited. Given that mobile phones require power, and access to power can be unpredictable –…
Social media making inroads at USA’s fastest growing companies
UK think tank Demos on education for a digital generation
Human-centred design at GE’s health-care unit [Business Week]
Business Week writes about how GE’s health-care unit went to design students at the Art Center College of Design for out-of-the-box ideas that are focused on people rather than technology, take a systems approach to problem solving, and are culturally…
Educational benefits of electronic toys questioned
UK foresight studies identify emerging trends over the next 50 years
Via the BBC I found out about the Sigma and Delta foresight scans, with nearly 250 papers that look ahead at developments over the next 50 years. The research was commissioned by the UK Office of Science and Innovation‘s Horizon…