Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
The UK Design Council has just launched a new programme called Public Services by Design. The success of public services is increasingly measured by their ability to provide personalised responses to an ever advancing set of challenges – while operating…
A year ago I wrote about Adam Greenfield’s pamphlet Urban computing and its discontents. Adam’s pamphlet was the firsts in a nine-part series that aims to explore the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism: How are our experience…
Alice Rawsthorn, design critic at the International Herald Tribune, writes this week on visualisation design, which uses advanced software to illustrate complicated data so that we (that’s the 99.99 percent of us without doctorates in applied mathematics) can understand it.…
Over the last week, I have been helping out Marcia Caines with editing her thoughtful review of the Saint-Etienne design biennial (She helped me out before on editing my piece on the Turin design policy conference). Take a look, it…
A team at IDEO led by Tatyana Mamout and Jessica Hastings has been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recently to develop a toolkit to help NGO’s apply human centered design methodologies to the work they do with…
Ruth Kikin-Gil is the UX Design Lead at Microsoft’s Office Labs, a Microsoft innovation group which focuses on the future of productivity and information work, and an alumnus of the acclaimed Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. In this 20-minute audio interview,…
Very good and long article by Cennydd Bowles on the relation between design and agile development. “For many designers, Agile is already a fact of life (and for those less accustomed, some recommended reading follows at the foot of this…
We all live in a digital world, although it means different things to different people. In her inaugural public lecture as Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Intel’s Genevieve Bell will explore how digital technology is shaping our lives, our culture, and…
A review of the Shaping the Global Design Agenda conference by Mark Vanderbeeken (Experientia) and Marcia Caines (Cluster) The days after the American presidential election are clearly a period of reflection. Newspapers and magazines are full of thoughtful articles, and…
Over 250 participants are expected to attend the first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) next month. From December 4-6, 2008, the beautiful baroque city of Turin, 2008 World Design Capital, will host the conference, themed “Usability…
This unusual title is actually a quote by Younghee Jung, a senior design manager at Nokia, who travels around the world on behalf of the company to study how people interact with technology. Younghee was interviewed by the Canadian Woman.ca…
DIT-Design in Tourism was an EU-funded project to develop tools suitable for everyday use within the tourism industry and to promote service design competencies from terminology to strategies and concepts. The project has – up till now – not been…
Donald Norman has posted a number of columns/essays on his blog: People are from earth, machines are from outer space [Interactions 2008 column] People are from earth. Machines are from outer space. I don’t know what kind of manners they…
Alastair Curtis, Nokia’s chief designer, discusses his design inspirations, coming Nokia devices and how Indian teenagers will influence the future of mobility, in an interview published on Forbes.com. As Nokia’s chief designer, a post the company veteran has held since…
Wired’s Gadget Lab blog contemplates the future of the mobile phone: Buttons are on their way out. Five years from now, it is likely that the mobile phone you will be holding will be a smooth, sleek brick — a…
Experientia is often involved in supporting and promoting the Piedmont, Italy territory where it is located. Our latest initiative is Diana, a machine designed to satisfy existing and future needs of the beauty industry, based on an analysis of current…
Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer O’Reilly Media, Inc. Paperback, 268 pages December 3, 2008 ISBN: 0596518390 Promo text: If you want to get started in new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Packed with informative…
Last week, Nokia launched its Nokia Life Tools (backgrounder), a range of innovative agriculture information and education services designed especially for rural and small town communities in emerging markets. From the press release: “Nokia Life Tools helps overcome information constraints…
The Wall Street Journal reports on how businesses are tapping designers for innovative ideas on management. “When New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center wanted to make the chemotherapy process easier on patients three years ago, it sought help from an…
Two user experience magazines landed on my desk this week. They are available only to subscribers, both in print and online. But subscriptions are relatively cheap. User Experience is the quarterly magazine of the Usability Professionals’ Association (membership is a…