Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Robert Hoekman, Jr lists three criteria to help you develop a useful design brief that will ultimately yield a great product. “User-friendliness is a result, not…
Games, Life and Utopia is a half-day event in Pottsdam, Germany on 11 November, that is all about gamification, serious games, learning and play. It’s a conference for service and interaction designers, for social activists, for artists, for developers and…
When people expect to be able to access information in the future, they tend to have reduced memory for the actual information, but enhanced memory for where to find the information. A feature article on UX Magazine: “Researchers found that…
Last week, Cadillac launched its new “CUE” vehicle infotainment system. The name is an acronym that stands for Cadillac User Experience — the company’s refined and expanded approach to connected vehicles. Electronista took an early look at the new system…
When UX designer Vanessa Carey read Susan Weinschenk’s article “The Psychologist’s View of UX Design” (published in UXMag last year), she decided to explore each of Susan’s ten points in more detail. “I will break down Susan’s post and further…
“Seamless, cross-channel experiences are the way of the future, as technology fades into the background and the personal, physical, and social context determine the methods we use to interact with information,” writes Tyler Tate on UX Matters. But, he says,…
Simon Rogers asks on The Guardian’s DataBlog if there is a backlash gathering steam against web data visualisations. “There has definitely been a shift. A few years ago, the only free data visualisation tools were clunky things that could barely…
dConstruct 2011, the 2 September event in Brighton, England, brought together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and ubiquitous computing to explore how we can bridge the gap between physical and digital product design. Videos are…
Dana Chisnell reports on the importance of flow in UX design. Flow comes from focused attention, deep engagement, a feeling of mastering a challenge. The outside world ceases to exist and time fades away. Awareness heightens and senses are charged,…
The La Sapienza University in Rome is organising the first User Experience Master for students who already have a previous degree. Although a highly laudable initiative, this part-time programme points to an important gap, since Italy really needs a full-time,…
“Shoes, cars and other love stories: Investigating the experience of love for products is the title of the doctoral dissertation (and a book!) by Beatriz Russo Rodrigues (Brazil) at the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands. “People often say…
Finnish researchers Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi and Jaana Leikas discuss replacing using intuitive notions of emotions with systematic psychological knowledge. “Underlying the recent surge in interest in user experience may be the realization that consumers have increasing power…
Article by Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino, with additional input from Jan-Christoph Zoels. How do you create community services and business models for a carbon neutral building block before the buildings stand? Thirty Finnish entrepreneurs came together last Tuesday (20 September…
Khoi Vinh reflects on the fact (and the user experience) that almost everything on all of his computers and all of his mobile devices can only be accessed with a password. “This is a big problem, and for lots of…
A week ago Mayo Clinic — the world’s largest and first integrated nonprofit medical practice — hosted the Transform symposium in Rochester, Minn., USA. The event focused on innovations and designing solutions to transform the experience and delivery of health…
Medium rise timber office building in low-to-no carbon emissions district, Helsinki, Finland, wins Holcim acknowledgement award for sustainable construction. The Low2No design team led by Sauerbruch-Hutton, Arup and Experientia were recognized for the multi-story timber construction headquarter for Sitra, the…
In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change by Bryan Boyer, Justin W. Cook, Marco Steinberg Helsinki Design Lab (HDL) / Sitra 2011, 337 pages > Free download > Blog post This book explores the HDL Studio Model, a unique way of…
When we talk about customer or user experience in the financial services arena, what do we actually mean? The understanding of banks and banking is not a straightforward concept, and there are different types of banks out there which serve…
Through Stanford University lectures and a project, coordinated by Scott Klemmer, learn the fundamentals of human-computer interaction and design thinking. The setting for the course is mobile web applications. 43 video sessions in all.
In the ever-changing and expanding world of the web, reaching the end user effectively is paramount in the minds of businesses, writes Stephanie Hamilton on Onextrapixel (OXP), a weblog dedicated to delivering useful, comprehensive and innovative information for designers and…