Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The six-story Calit2 laboratory, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean, is designed for 900 faculty and student researchers. Two separate wings extend from the main building. On one side is an ultrasterile set of nanotechnology clean rooms designed for making devices…
Ms. Ito says older generations have a lot to learn from how the rising generation is taking up these new technologies — sometimes adults don’t recognize that young people are developing innovative uses for technologies. “I see my work as…
The current issue of Business Week has devoted an extensive feature to Dr. Stefano Marzano, CEO and Creative Director of Philips Design. “Marzano’s passion lies in humanising technology. His goal is to make homes and offices less cluttered with bulky…
The Guardian has a fascinating and slightly depressing article about the multi-million-pound industry intent on turning teenagers and toddlers into passionate consumers. British child is familiar with up to 400 brand names by the time they reach the age of…
Can China move 400 million people to its cities without wreaking environmental havoc? Eco-urban designer William McDonough says yes—and Beijing is listening. Beijing is now orchestrating an industrial revolution, hoping to telescope into a few decades what it took Western…
The upgraded digital divide: are we developing new technologies faster than consumers can use them? TiVos and Treos and BlackBerrys. Wi-Fi and HDTV and plasma screens. Picture phones, digital cameras, iPods and now iPod cell phones. Complexity among consumer technology…
Dave Iverson of San Francisco public radio station KQED interviews Tom Kelley, the general manager of IDEO, about his new book The Ten Faces of Innovation. The 45 minute interview focuses on how to encourage and recognise daily innovation and…
Cell phones made up 74.6 percent of all African phone subscriptions last year, says the U.N.’s International Telecommunication Union. Cell phone subscriptions jumped 67 percent south of the Sahara in 2004, compared with 10 percent in cell-phone-saturated Western Europe, according…
Voices in Your Hand is a humanitarian project, sponsored by Philips Electronics, to create a simple, voice-email handset and cheap audio services to help urban shantytowns and isolated rural areas in the developing world, overcoming illiteracy or minority languages. The…
From strategy, brand and innovation to product, service and experience Businesses fifteen years ago referred to everything as product, and the focus was on how to make those products robust. A new life insurance policy was referred to as a…
The growing role of wireless communication in international economic development was the focus of a major research workshop organised by the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. The October 7-8, 2005 gathering of the world’s leading global communication researchers included…
The Isreali Design Center, Israel’s first museum dedicated to design will open in Holon by 2008. A series of conferences exploring the role of design in society and raising awareness for the forthcoming museum have been planned. The first conference,…
Two recent Australian reports investigate how children and teens relate to internet and mobile devices. kidsonline@home – Internet use in Australian homes [April 2005] NetAlert and the Australian Broadcasting Authority recognised a need to capture behaviours and attitudes associated with…
Ezio Manzini, who is a professor at the Milan Polytechnic and one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable design, recently talked about his ideas at the British Design Council. A background paper entitled Enabling solutions, social innovation and design…
RED is a unit at the (British) Design Council that wants to challenge accepted thinking on current social and economic problems by exploring new solutions through innovative design practice. The unit takes a proactive approach to solving problems and developing…
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has been presenting audiences with a prediction and a challenge about the free culture movement: Ten Things that Will be Free. Jimmy’s list is inspried by David Hilbert’s address to the International Congress of Mathematicians…
This spring I have been working with Cittadellarte, the foundation of the (world-) famous arte povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, on bringing more clarity to its identity and mission, allowing them to inspire a more people-centred and responsible impact on society.…
Today I am leaving for a short trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where I will be attending the Dubrovnik Leadership Forum, organised by two top central European business schools, IEDC-Bled School of Management (Slovenia) and ESMT-European School for Management and Technology…
International woman of blogs Régine Debatty does a balancing act between art and technology. Over the past 18 months, 34-year-old Ms. Debatty has written about robots, digital information security, nanotechnology, technology for women, and about many such intersections of society,…