Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Over the past decade, Korea’s Samsung Electronics has transformed itself from a copycat producer of uninspiring goods into one of the world’s top consumer-electronics brands. Much of that transformation is due to a shift in power at the company from…
“Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it’s about everything,” writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, “Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic.” Sterling offers…
Apparently a must-read if you work on sites with large amounts of information: Designing for the Scent of Information The essentials every designer needs to know about how users navigate through large web sites By Jared M. Spool, Christine Perfetti…
A useful book concentrating on the important “user experience†aspects of design for small screen devices The design of interactive applications or presentations on small screens can be challenging for the designer. Not all design concepts that are valid on…
The ID-StudioLab of the TU Delft covers research in four areas: designing for the senses, designing and emotion, inspiration engineering and intelligence in products. The challenge of the ID-StudioLab is to shape the conditions for a satisfactory product experience. Traditionally,…
What are the key design tasks facing the new post-agricultural rural economies and settlements? A conference in the UK in September will map out a new role for the arts and design in response to new social, environmental and…
Gotoreport is the regular newsletter of Gotomedia, a San Francisco based strategic consultancy specialised in research, visual design and user experience design. In the January 2006 edition, Leigh Duncan reminds us that as we look forward to Web 2.0…
Tim Brown, head of IDEO, who will be speaking and moderating at the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF), thinks it is precisely the power and ability of design that made the organisers decide to make design central to the conference:…
The future may lie in devices that care for an aging population, used to living on their own and with money to spend. Often the needs of an older population are at odds with the design of new gadgets. According…
Core77, the industrial design site, is launching a brand new debate series called Design2.0: Discussions on Design, Strategy & Innovation. The first panel discussion focuses on current thinking in brand and service innovation and will take place in New York…
This morning I interviewed Richard Eisermann, Director of Design & Innovation at the UK Design Council, and you will read more about that soon. He pointed me to a number of interesting Design Council publications. They are all available for…
Philips released today the January issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. The current issue starts with an introductory article by Stefano Marzano, CEO and chief creative director, and then continues with an overview of…
This year’s World Economic Forum features a roster of programs seeking to bring business up to speed on new thinking about innovation. The World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, is a high-altitude, high-profile gathering of the globe’s business…
Here are some links for those interested in the role of creativity and design as tools for innovation, especially in the context of regional development. Creative London: realising the economic potential of London’s creative industries London’s mayor commission on…
As part of a long and critical post on the design and usability problems of the iPod (entitled “What’s wrong with the iPod), Jeff Axup of Mobile Community Design also looks at the social systems surrounding iPod usage: “We all…
GIS is a technology, not a business process. As a result, taking GIS into the field by itself creates a number of potential challenges. Applications can be too slow, with learning curves that are too steep for rapid acceptance among…
To be competitive, companies need more than managerial decision-making capabilities; they need their people to be more creative and innovative. Therefore, leading management thinkers, corporations like Procter & Gamble, Nissan and Ford, and B-schools like Stanford’s Graduate School of…
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (25-29 January) is devoted to creativity. One of the eight sub-themes is on “innovation, creativity and design strategy”, exploring how “business, government and social innovators are taking on new…
Last week John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception and author of In the bubble: designing in a complex world, lectured at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) on Solidarity economics and design: life…
They may not have the money of the hedge fund managers who line up at bonus time at the open houses for $5 million homes, and their numbers do not equal those of health care workers. But New York City’s…