Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Culture
The future of clothes
Trendwatching report on businesses and co-creation
Design as play
Welcome to the new dollhouse [The New York Times]
Forty percent of Americans play electronic games, poll shows [Seattle Times]
Mining the golden years [Business Week]
Cellphone gaming lacks pull, report shows [The Washington Post]
Innovation and creativity workshops at Davos World Economic Forum
Somewhat belatedly, I discovered John Thornhill’s summaries (published in the Financial Times) of the CEO workshops at January’s Davos World Economic Forum. Building a culture of innovation “The participants in this workshop [were] asked to apply design thinking to a…
In today’s high-tech dating world, roses are often read
In this age of high-speed instant communication, the manner in which potential lovers interact is a complicated, tiered system that has reconfigured the way we court. Gone are the days when potential paramours exchange phone numbers and contemplate too long…
Whirlpool’s push to jump-start innovation [Business Week]
Uday Dandavate on striking a balance
Through Core77, I learned about the thinking of Uday Dandavate, a principal of the participatory design agency Sonic Rim. Dandavate, who is trained as an industrial designer and is from Indian origin, is a thorough believer in the duty of…
Nokia online magazine on music and mobility
Digital kids series
Mediamatic publishes comprehensive reader on RFID
Mediamatic, the Amsterdam cultural institution, has published a comprehensive reader on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), as a preparation for their upcoming workshop on The Internet of Things (9-11 May – speakers include Régine Debatty and Malcolm McCullough). “Radio frequency identification…
New Berlin School of Creative Leadership
We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world [The Guardian]
With globalisation, most anticipate an inter-connected world with greater understanding of multiple cultures more than ever before. Martin Jacques, a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, argues in The Guardian that this assumption is at…