Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Socio-cultural change
Videos of “Digital, Life, Design” conference online
Internet users transformed into news reporters [AFP]
10 TouchPoints: design for everyday life in Singapore
The Economist on the end of the cash era
Users turn their noses up at mobile TV
Kids, the internet and the end of privacy: the greatest generation gap since rock and roll [New York Magazine]
Be connected on the go: not anytime – not anywhere [Swisscom Innovations]
Europe takes lead in Second Life [Reuters]
“Europeans make up the largest block of Second Life residents with more than 54 percent of active users in January ahead of North America’s 34.5 percent, according to new Linden Lab data,” as reported on Reuters/Second Life. “U.S. residents made…
Demos project on user-led service design in local authorities
Unfriendly technology is creating a digital divide in the workforce, warns Deloitte [Computing Magazine]
Participle, a new social venture to design the next generation of public services
Internet boom in China is built on virtual fun [International Herald Tribune]
Interview with Genevieve Bell, director of user experience at Intel
Genevieve Bell is a highly respected anthropologist and director of user experience at Intel. In this interview with Australian usability consultant Gerry Gaffney, she talks about what it means to build technology with the home in mind, about cultural influences…
France Telecom research on use of mobile multimedia services in cities
Technology transforming relationship between the elected and the electorate of Europe [eGov monitor]
Europe has celebrated 50 years of peace and political progression, but the next 50 will see massive changes in the relationship between the electorate and politicians thanks to technology. That was the message from the Microsoft Government Leader’s Forum 2007…
The TRIL Centre: ethnographic research on ageing to develop healthcare technologies for the elderly
Harvard Business Review features user-centered innovation as breakthrough idea for 2007
The Harvard Business Review has published its annual list of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, written out in “twenty essays that will satisfy our demanding readers’ appetite for provocative and important new ideas”. Eric von Hippel wrote the entry entitled “An…
Innovation and the prosperity of nations [Core77]
“At the recent Competitiveness Summit, the connections between business and innovation were made starkly clear,” writes Nico Macdonald in a Core77 article. In November 2005 the UK Treasury published the Cox Review of Creativity in Business, addressing “a question that…
Interview with Adam Greenfield on the user experience of ubiquitous computing
Régine Debatty (of we-make-money-not-art) and Nicolas Nova (co-organiser of the upcoming LIFT conference) have together interviewed Adam Greenfield in which he focuses on the user experience of ubiquitous computing. Greenfield is the principal of design consultancy Studies and Observations, and…