Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
The first ever World Happiness Report has been made public and states that our best chance at a contented life is to pack up and move to Scandinavia, writes Wired UK. Published by The Earth Institute at Columbia University and…
All our global institutions — from the United Nations to the World Trade Organization to the International Monetary Fund to the G20 to the G8 — are broken, according to Don Tapscott, the best-selling author of Macrowikinomics. In an 8…
Opower [is a company] that blends behavioral science and data analysis to find ways to help utilities get their customers to use less electricity. [Their] thinking is that it’s not so much factual information that motivates behavioral change — knowing…
What happens when designers & manufacturers discuss the workplace & social media? Dexigner reports that IIDA has published a whitepaper summary of the IIDA Industry Roundtable 15, focused on the changes in the industry, and in the world, their experience…
Our tech saturation has reached such a critical point that some experts say it’s rewiring our brains. Research psychologist and computer educator Larry Rosen of California State University, Dominguez Hills, suggests that being so hyperconnected can make us behave as…
Nir Eyal’s third Techcrunch article on behavioural engineering, delves into the topic of “desire engines”. “Desire engines go beyond reinforcing behavior; they create habits, spurring users to act on their own, without the need for expensive external stimuli like advertising.…
The “mBCC Field Guide: A Resource for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Communication Programs,†is a new tool that helps users guide the design of mobile applications for health and provides insights about what works in mobile behavior change communication is…
Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food By Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill, with contributions from Ville Tikka, Nuppu Gävert, Tea Tonnov, and Kaarle Hurtig. Sitra / Low2No Street food describes systems of everyday life. In its sheer everydayness…
Nir Eyal continues his article series on Techcrunch (see also “Habits are the new viral“) with a short essay on manufacturing desire. “Companies increasingly find that their economic value is a function of the strength of the habits they create.…
The Transition Companion: making your community more resilient in uncertain times by Rob Hopkins Chelsea Green Pub Co, November 2011 320 pages Abstract In 2008, the bestselling The Transition Handbook suggested a model for a community-led response to peak oil…
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg Random House, February 2012 400 pages Abstract In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to…
The divide between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” is vast, and a new study of Internet use in the land of Gutenberg finds that twice the number previously believed barely go online at all. “According to the study, so-called “Digital…
Designers are beginning to understand how irrational thinking plays into the decisions people make, writes Rob Girling of Artefact. That knowledge can be used to openly influence consumers to make responsible choices. “Recent advances in neuroscience and behavioral economics, cognitive…
The French think tank Fing (who was also behind the LIFT France event last year) collaborated last year with VIA, Promotelec, Renault Group, La Poste, Minatec Laboratory (CEA), CNR Santà, ESIR Engineering school on a research project called “Connected homes…
The economic value of web businesses increasingly depends on the strength of the habitual behavior of their users, argues Nir Eyal on Techcrunch. These habits ultimately will be a deciding factor in what separates startup winners and losers. “Increasingly, companies…
All web designers use perceptual persuasion in their designs, but without knowing they do. Interaction designer Wouter Middendorf delves into the matter: “Persuasive design is hot. Especially on the web as designers found out that the internet perfectly lends itself…
Increasing privacy infringement on the Internet has set off a campaign to uphold the “right to be forgotten,†which allows users to demand information about them be deleted by social networking websites. Si-Soo Park provides an Asian angle on the…
Behavioural change researcher Dan Lockton discusses an approach which has emerged out of some of the ethnographic work he has been doing for the Empower project, working on CarbonCulture with More Associates, where asking users questions about how and why…
All human societies are alive with the battle for influence. Every single day each of us is subject to innumerable persuasion attempts from corporations, interest groups, political parties and other organisations. Each trying to persuade us that their product, idea…
Applying Anthropology in the Global Village Edited by Christina Wasson, Mary Odell Butler and Jacqueline Copeland-Carson Left Coast Press – November 2011 – 326 pp. Hardback (978-1-61132-085-5) Paperback (978-1-61132-086-2) The realities of the globalized world have revolutionized traditional concepts of…