Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The upcoming issue of Cluster, the bilingual (Eng/Ita) innovation magazine is entitled “Transmitting Architecture“. It is made in collaboration with XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture 2008, to be held in Turin, Italy in a few weeks. Two years on…
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo reports on PBS’s Mediashift blog on the Spanish relationship with the cell phone and “how it has evolved differently from the one in the US for reasons that are clear and others that remain a mystery”. “Because…
Information Architecture Television is a weblog that contains quite an extensive collection of online videos concerning usability, information architecture, interaction design and user experience design. (via InfoDesign)
The fact that young people are more adapt at using the latest technologies has less to do with expertise, experience or access, but more with their “non-dramatic” relation with these technologies, as evidenced by the way they deal with small…
Holger Struppek (a design director at Hot Studio and former senior interaction designer at Pentagram Design) shares on his Physical Interface (!) blog some design insights that went into Wells Fargo’s touchscreen ATM interface–a product freed from a major hardware-imposed…
The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing…
David Armano of Critical Mass catches Business Week’s Bruce Nussbaum for a half hour interview on design and innovation. In the interview Bruce talks about the One Laptop Per Child, the difference between design and design thinking, the changing concept…
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is organising a four-part lecture series on “Digital Natives,” referring to the generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part of their lives, especially the young…
HCI Remixed – Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community Edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald MIT Press, 2008 Hardcover, 344 pages > Table of Contents Abstract Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction…
The Spanish innovation network Infonomia features a video section (called Infonomia TV) with a series of English language video interviews that the readers of this blog might find interesting: Nicolas Nova: The future of urban computing [5:25] Nicolas Nova is…
Sohrab Vossoughi, founder and president of ZIBA Design, has published an article in Business Week on authenticity, with examples from the Umpqua Bank, Starbucks, and the Anthropologie clothing chain. “Consumers seek meaning and a brand they can trust. They are…
Business Week reports on how Americans flock to different sites when they use their mobile phones to go online, than when they surf from their computers. “Welcome to the weekend Web, where people are spending a bigger slice of time…
Harvard Business Review has published a long article by Tim Brown, the CEO of IDEO, on design thinking. “Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy,” says Brown. “Edison’s approach was an early…
Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies Edited by James E. Katz Afterword by Manuel Castells MIT Press, 2008 Hardcover, 486 pages Abstract Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly…
A few weeks ago the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the UK Parliament published the first parliamentary assessment of the idea of “user involvement” in public services, which they see as “potentially a new model for public service delivery…
Experientia/Putting People First has been invited to become a media partner of PICNIC 2008. Set up as a series of events – a top-class conference, seminars and workshops – PICNIC will be held in Amsterdam from 24 to 26 September…
Jeff Parks and Chris Baum of Boxes and Arrows sat down with several of the speakers and organisers of Adaptive Path’s San Francisco conference: MX San Francisco: Managing Experience through Creative Leadership, that took place on April 20-22. The result…