Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The New York Times reports on how in the collective patter of profile-surfing, messaging and “friending,” academic researchers see the resurgence of older patterns of oral communication. “The growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Second Life…
The Urban Atmospheres project (video) is exploring how people who live in cities might want to use technology, how it could help them develop a sense of community or belonging, or play into their emotional experiences of urban living. “By…
The UK Design Council sponsored conference InterSections 07 brought together 34 leading thinkers in design to consider how design is evolving and how this is affecting its relationships with other fields. The conference, held in NewcastleGateshead in October 2007, asked…
The 19th issue of Vodafone’s Receiver magazine is devoted to communities. Receiver is Vodafone’s magazine for future thinkers, attracting a wide range of influential writers and industry leaders. It is conceived as a neutral space, where pioneer thinkers challenge readers…
Our increasingly interconnected world has made it easier for information and disease to spread. However a new study from Harvard University and Cornell University, entitled “Complex Contagions and the Weakness of Long Ties” shows that fewer “degrees of separation” can…
Last week Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken attended the Philips Simplicity Event in London. It was a mixture of a vision presentation, a prototype exhibition, a networking event, and a marketing opportunity. The prototypes on show were conceptual designs for social…
Also part of the Dott07 festival that I talked about earlier today were the Creative Communities Award. Guest speaker was Ezio Manzini, professor of industrial design at Politecnico di Milano and author of Sustainable Everyday. “The idea of well-being that…
Hilary Cottam, UK Designer of the Year 2005 and former director of RED [archive site], the meanwhile closed innovation unit of the UK Design Council, is now one of the founding partners of Participle, a new social enterprise designing the…
James Gilmore and Joe Pine, authors of the 1999 bestseller “The Experience Economy“, have now published a new book “Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want”. Abstract Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what…
Bruno Giussani reports on the press conference announcing the LIFT08 conference programme (backgrounder): The conference LIFT08 will take place for the third time in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6-8 February 2008. The main structure of the programme has been presented tonight…
When designers and politicians put their heads together, are we seeing the dawn of a brave new world or just the re-birth of big brother? Kevin McCullagh investigates in an article, published in the October issue of Blueprint magazine. “The…
The latest issue of Frog Design Mind (permalink), the bi-monthly newsletter of Frog Design Inc., is devoted to identity and contain a rich group of articles on “the struggle to find new meaning in the growing landscape of design”. Here…
Bruce Sterling is now living in Torino, Italy and will stay here, together with his wife, Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tesanovic, until the end of March 2008. He is here at the invitation of the Regional Government of Piedmont…