Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
There is a lively discussion and some concern that computers, the Internet and multitasking are extracting a mental price, writes Nick Bilton in the New York Times’ “Bits” blog. Yet, Bilton says, “there are some who argue that not only…
I finally had a chance to listen to the two excellent keynotes of Design Everything, the futures conference that took place last month in Manchester, UK. Keynote: Ben Cerveny Ben Cerveny‘s keynote explored how, as newly-emerging urban-scale technology infrastructures are…
Architectural historian Mitchell Schwarzer has published a two-part essay that explores how technology — especially the real-time, mediating imageries of augmented reality — influences how we perceive and inhabit place. “We’re in the first stage of a transformation of our…
On 10-11 May, UNICEF New York organised the Design Days, where they invited designers and engineers who have worked with UNICEF to discuss the organisation, the (rapid prototyping) design process, and recommendations for future design collaborations. They have now produced…
The debate continues: scientists say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information from e-mail and other interruptions. The New York Times reports. “Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people…
Clay Shirky and Nicholas Carr post contrasting video’s in the Saturday Essay of the Wall Street Journal Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky. “The case for digitally-driven…
Filmmaker Declan McCormack looks at how mobile phones and the internet are changing lives in east Africa. McCormack is a filmmaker who has spent much of the last five years documenting the successes and failures of business-oriented development projects in…
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda, addressed yesterday’s 2nd Annual Internet of Things Conference in Brussels, with a speech entitled “Bringing European values to the Internet of Things”. “Our citizens may not always want…
Videos of the recent IIT Design Research Conference are currently being uploaded. Here is the list of the presentations (alphabetical by speaker’s last name), with video links (where available): Tim Brown | IDEO (conference bio) We’re all design researchers now…
In Growing Up Online, the American public affairs series FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. “The Internet and the digital world was…
Why do share prices, skirt lengths, even the state of the European Union, fluctuate so wildly? It’s down to social mood, says John Casti, and we must heed its messages. “No collective human activities or actions, such as globalisation or,…
On 20 May 2010 an event known as “Digital Death Day” brought together the businesses of social networking, data management and death care. One of its organisers, Jennifer Holmes, says: “We have reached a critical mass of personal data online.”…
BeAware, an EU-supported research project, has created a solution to motivate and empower citizens to become active energy consumers, by offering them the opportunity to raise awareness of their own power consumption in real time. Energy Life includes a mobile…
Nick Marsh recently published an article with Dan Lockton in the fourth edition of Touchpoint, the Service Design Network journal. The issue is completely focused on the relationship between service design and behaviour change, but unfortunately the content is not…
Adrian Chan has written a thoughtful post about “teasing apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what’s behind the relational economy we now live in, and its particular mode of production.” “All commerce and much personal…
The Spring 2010 issue of Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, is dedicated to the Future of News. Front Matter Introduction Loren Ghiglione, Professor of Media Ethics at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern…
Members of the under 30 tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud. “The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable revealing every facet of their lives online, from their favorite pizza to most frequent…
Sven Birkerts wites in the American Scholar on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary. “My real worry has less to do with the overthrow of…
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund [disclaimer: and Experientia client] has launched a new book, After the Crisis, and a report, Finland: Wellsprings for a Vital Future, that shed light on the fundamental change Finland is going through. “For decades, Finland’s…
This week’s Economist contains a special report on television. The leader article presents television as the great survivor, which has coped well with technological change: “It helps that TV is an inherently lazy form of entertainment. The much-repeated prediction that…