Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The industrial revolution is over, and the machines have won. But as jobs in factories and offices disappear, there are still opportunities to create new kinds of employment. According to Jeremy Rifkin, the first opportunity lies in what he calls…
Indigenous peoples are using both digital and narrative media to preserve and express their cultures and beliefs. Often this involves adapting media and technology to what the people need, rather than pushing them into a pre-digested or “mainstream” model of…
Is it a new medium on a par with film and music, a valuable educational tool, a form of harmless fun or a digital menace that turns children into violent zombies? Video gaming is all these things, depending on whom…
Mobile phones have turned members of the public into reporters and camera crews – “citizen journalists”. The media are hungry for their digital images and eyewitness accounts. Read full story
Recent experiences in the struggle against terrorism have shown not only what a critical role the public plays in preventing and responding to crises, but also the importance of a widely available tool the public can use to prevent terrorist…
An interesting conference RE:activism | Re-drawing the Boundaries of Activism in a New Media environment (unfortunately, the site’s Flash version is really annoying) will take place October 14-15, 2005, in Budapest, Hungary. The conference, which is is co-organised by four…
Music fans may bemoan the crumbling boundary between commercials and song-making, but there’s more to come in an industry turned on its head by portable digital music players like the fast-selling iPod. U.S. advertisers and their agencies are becoming talent…
Videos have taken on an exciting if uncertain life of their own, far away from the mother ship that launched them. They thrive at online music sites, they’re sold in record stores, they connect strangers across the Internet. And just…
Does design have a role in implementing social policy and addressing political challenges? In an informal debate on “Design and Social Policy”, the July meeting of AIGA Experience Design in London weighed up just how far designers should be engaged…
The Pattern Map offers a visual guide to the sustainability patterns that provide a framework for developing a Conservation Economy: an ecologically restorative, socially just and reliably prosperous society. The fifty-seven patterns are adaptable to local ecosystems and cultures, yet…
Moving beyond recycling to preventing garbage itself as the next generation of social and civic responsibility, Seattle Public Utilities is launching an initiative called Wasteless in Seattle. With the long-term goal of “zero waste,” the city hopes to drastically reduce…
Sun leads way in telework — working not just from home but anywhere. Sun is on the leading edge when it comes to “telework” — a coinage that nowadays replaces the term “telecommuting” because it encompasses not just working from…
The BBC News website reporters attending the TEDGlobal (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford sum up their impressions as the gathering ends. Read full story
Rambling in the countryside has never been so popular, but a conference this weekend, hosted by the Living Streets charity, will examine how taking a daily stroll down the High Street can breathe new life into towns. Read full story
Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts. “I am predicting 50 years of chaos,” said…
As with all previous leaps in technology, cell phones are used to empower organising efforts (just like early campaigns using printed materials, TV, radio, fax, email, web, etc.). The time has come to recognise the power of the cell phone…
Journalist Carl Honoré told attendees of the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford they should unplug and slow down in a world that was stuck in fast- forward. And author Barry Schwartz told the conference that it was better when we had…
There is a perverse hypocrisy about the whole jobs debate, especially in Europe. The colonial powers invaded countries like India and China, pillaged them of their treasures and commodities and made sure their industries weren’t allowed to develop, so…
The best way to help developing nations is to recognise that development is “of the people, by the people and for the people”, says a Bangladeshi entrepreneur. Iqbal Quadir, Grameen Phone founder in Bangladesh, told experts gathered for TEDGlobal in…
[…] The latest [technological] tools are both digital, rooted in the world of electrons and bits, and fundamentally social, built to enable new kinds of interactions among people. Blogging, text messaging, photo sharing, and Web surfing from a smart phone…