The restless mind
Mark Ury contacted me the other day. He is the chief experience architect for Blast Radius and has a very good blog, entitled “The Restless Mind“, that features the kind of “slow” insightful writing that I really enjoy. Take a…
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Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Experience design
Jared Spool: user-centred design is dead?
As keynote speaker at the IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool puts his foot in it: Jared Spool, the IA Summit 2008 keynote speaker, posited the idea that UCD was an out-dated methodology that should be retired by the UX community.…
April 2008 issue of UXmatters
The April issue of UXmatters just came out: Winning content persuades, not manipulates by Colleen Jones Elements of persuasion are important to creating winning content. To help safeguard content from becoming manipulation, we need to understand its distinction from persuasion.…
Cellphones save the world
Daniel Lende wrote a good annotated summary of the New York Times magazine feature of Jan Chipchase, on the “Neuroanthropology” blog. He thinks the “world is going to see a transformation through the convergence of four factors: people-driven processes, change…
ZIBA Design founder: “It’s all about experience”
Sohrab Vossoughi, the founder and president of ZIBA Design, argues in an article for Business Week that companies are flourishing when they try to create holistic experiences by emotionally engaging their consumers. “Advances in manufacturing technology and the global reach…
Julian Bleecker joins Nokia’s Design Strategic Projects Studio
Julian Bleecker has decided to join Nokia’s Design Strategic Projects Studio. Julian and (LIFT conference‘s) Nicolas Nova are the co-founders of the Near Future Laboratory where client work focuses on developing emerging and conceptual design-technology for new interactive experiences. Jan…
Chipchase featured in New York Times Magazine
The Chipchase hype has hit the New York Times Magazine. Nokia’s user anthropologist Jan Chipchase is becoming very popular. Just a day after the Economist, now one of the world’s top newspapers has published a 6,000 word feature on him,…
Videos online of Potsdam interaction design conference
Last year’s conference “Innovation Forum Interaction Design” focused on all aspects of interface and interaction design: mobile telephone and media interfaces, problem solutions and product visions, web pages and virtual worlds, art and commerce, business and science. Speakers included Gillian…
Experience design and authenticity – is there a connection?
Idris Mootee, a business and innovation strategist, explores in a very casually written post the relevance of authenticity in experience design. How about everyday experiences? Often these little experiences (digital or real world) are not engineered to be great, but…
Last three CHI 2008 interviews
Luca Chittaro (blog) of Il Sole 24 Ore’s Novà just published his last three CHI 2008 interviews: Talking cars A collaboration between Toyota and Stanford University is experimenting a talking car interface that does much more than navigation, providing safety…
Another batch of CHI 2008 interviews
Luca Chittaro (blog), who covers the CHI 2008 conference in Florence for Novà , the innovation supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s business newspaper, continues with his gruelling pace of interviews. Here is another batch: Technology among the homeless We…
New ISO usability standard defines “user experience”
According to Tom Stewart, the new version of ISO 13407, the International Standard for Human Centred Design (which will be called ISO 9241-210 to bring it into line with other usability standards), will use the term “user experience”. Stewart is…
Better than free
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, has written a long post about making sense of value in a world in which many digital goods are available for free. “The internet is a copy machine. At its most…
Conference: Innovation through inclusive design
The Norwegian Design Council is organising a European Business Conference on Inclusive Design, 5-6 May in Oslo, Norway. Would you like to know how inclusive design can help you create new products and services? How design methods can take you…
New David Report bulletin about consumer culture
The latest David Report bulletin, called “I shop therefore I am”, looks into the world of consumer culture from different point of views; ethical, social, political, economical and humanistic. Shopping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and…
A conversation with Dopplr’s Matt Jones
Matt Jones used to be director of user-experience design at Nokia. Now he is the co-founder of Dopplr, a social networking site for frequent travellers. Ryan Freitas of Adaptive Path recently had a long conversation with him that you can…
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser
Firefox 3 hasn’t even launched yet, and the talk is already moving to Firefox 4. Mozilla Lab’s push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it’s running on, and…
Status stories: helping consumers tell status-yielding stories to other consumers
Trendwatching published a feature post about status-yielding stories. Their central thesis: As more brands (have to) go niche and therefore tell stories that aren’t known to the masses, and as experiences and non-consumption-related expenditures take over from physical (and more…
Live reporting from CHI 2008
Luca Chittaro will keep a running blog (in English and Italian) during CHI 2008 where he promises “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer interaction”. Chittaro, who is a professor at the University of…
Next week at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy
Next week on 8 and 9 April I will be at CHI 2008, the international conference that this year is taking place in Florence, Italy. On Wednesday afternoon you can find me in the panel on Interactions Magazine, that Richard…