Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Ezio Manzini, who is a professor at the Milan Polytechnic and one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable design, recently talked about his ideas at the British Design Council. A background paper entitled Enabling solutions, social innovation and design…
RED is a unit at the (British) Design Council that wants to challenge accepted thinking on current social and economic problems by exploring new solutions through innovative design practice. The unit takes a proactive approach to solving problems and developing…
Science and technology website Red Nova just published a long interview with Donald Norman on his meanwhile very well known book Emotional Design: why we love (or hate) everyday things. (via Usernomics)
The Nokia Belgium and Nokia Netherlands sites feature a Nokia Concept Lounge that was developed for the Nokia Benelux Design Awards. The site aims at exploring the future of mobile communications and gathers many student ideas to advance the thinking…
Philips unveiled more than 25 new design concepts, demonstrating how the company’s focus on ‘simplicity-led design’ is likely to translate into new products over the coming three to five years across its entire healthcare, lifestyle and technology portfolio. Read press…
Régine Debatty who runs the very successful cult blog we make money not art just launched no garlic please, a new blog on what’s beautiful or interesting in Europe, starting this week with a special on 100%design London. The blog…
User driven innovation is said to be the answer to all our prayers regarding the future of business and wealth in Denmark and Scandinavia in light of the global competition that we see these days. The media, top managers…
As part of this week’s Index: 2005 events in Copenhagen, Denmark, CPH127 interviewed Joong Yeal Choi, Head of Samsung Design Europe and made it available in video. Mr. Choi has studied industrial design and design management at Seoul National University…
For our readers in New York: The Parsons Department of Design and Management is having Brenda Laurel speak as part of their Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture Series in Business Strategy, Negotiation & Innovation. The lecture, titled “Design Research: Informed Creativity”,…
Imagine how many problems around the world we can begin to solve if we use our insight into human needs, combine it with all our available knowledge and technology, and make use of our creativity… The INDEX: Views Summit, which…
When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company’s new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: they cheered. Unlike executives at so many corporations, who would…
John Maeda, professor at MIT Media Lab, argues in this short article that good design gives users just enough, but not too much, information — once knowledge is gleaned, attention moves easily on to a larger task. Read full story
The Sacred World Foundation was founded several years ago by Ranjit Makkuni, a visionary and designer and a former leading researcher at Xerox PARC. It is a state of the art research and design think tank, located in New Delhi,…
The French “buzz marketing” agency Nouveau Jour has been collaborating with the creative team of fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier on a new online section for the designer, conceived as a virtual world to experience and share chance encounters. In addition…
As the new vice-president of the user experience and design group at Yahoo! Inc., Larry Tesler is charged with fine-tuning some of the Internet’s primest real estate: the Yahoo.com home page. Read full story