Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
“By 2020 the terms ‘interface’ and ‘user’ will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans,” is the first sentence of a short article on the BBC News site. According to the BBC, “it is one of the predictions…
The New York Times writes about a new wave of Silicon Valley companies that are bringing live socializing into online social networking Web sites: Compared with other forms of human interaction, online social networking is really not all that social.…
Hugh Graham asks some serious questions about the role designers in promoting consumer culture, in a wider context of sustainability. “Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Can the design industry, broadly defined, reposition and reinvent itself…
One of the statements that stuck with me at the recent Disruptive Thinking event in Barcelona, organised by the Art Center College of Design, was by author Sara Wheeler. She said: “Climate change is now part of the human experience,…
Newsweek’s Katie Paul interviews Richard Florida to find out how new ‘creative classes’ are changing cities around the world and what our chosen cities say about us. Here is the introduction: Is it just a cultural quirk that the New…
Robert X. Cringely, the pen name of technology journalist Mark Stephens, who is the host and writer of the hit PBS-TV miniseries “Electric Money”, has penned a polemic piece about culture and technology: “There is a technology war coming. Actually…
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations by Clay Shirky is an “examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them,…
The UK government is aiming to make the country a global leader in the arts, media and advertising through initiatives including the creation of thousands of new apprenticeships and the launch of a Davos-style world creative business conference. Prime Minister…
The world of design and innovation has greatly changed in the last decade. The challenges are more complex, more intricate, and more systemic, and therefore require an increasingly holistic and multidisciplinary approach, especially in education. Or in the words of…
Today Torino World Design Capital published an interview Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently conducted with Bruce Sterling. This time not about spimes, ubiquitous computing or digital fabrication, but about his experience with the city where he lived for the last…
“We Think”, the new book by Charles Leadbeater, a UK-based innovation thinker and spokesman for collective creativity, has just been published. Society is based not on mass consumption now but on mass, innovative participation – as is clear in phenomena…
A new book was published (and is available free online) on what might be happening to our out privacy and ultimately reputation in an age of ubiquitous personal information. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet…
The Washington Post reflects on what it means that there is now one cellphone for every two humans on Earth. “From essentially zero, we’ve passed a watershed of more than 3.3 billion active cellphones on a planet of some 6.6…
As medical devices transition from hospital to home, device manufacturers must create a positive experience for users, argues Matthew Jordan, director of research and interaction design at Insight Product Development, in a long article in Medical Device Link. Certain macrotrends…
The Boston Globe ponders what happens now that women are wielding increasing influence in a high-tech world that has been largely built and engineered by men, and how that changes the technology itself. No one would make the argument that…
Kiwanja.net is a very interesting initiative, led by anthropologist Ken Banks, helping local, national and international non-profit organisations in developing countries (mostly in Africa) make better use of information and communications technology in their work. The Kiwanja website also has…
Nicole Ferraro investigates in a long article in Information Week if cell phones and other inexpensive wireless devices can close the digital divide in the world’s poorest countries. “For the developing world, the Internet experience is going to be a…
“Transformers – how local areas innovate to address changing social needs” is a new report by the UK National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) that explores why some places innovate more effectively than others. Taking a series…
With the publication of the book “La condition inhumaine: essai sur l’effroi technologique” [The inhuman condition: essay on the fear of technology] by Ollivier Dyens, the French newspaper Le Monde published an interview with the author. Here is a quick…
Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, chaired a debate last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about the future of design. Other participants were Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at…