Category Experience design
Book: Sketching User Experiences
Improving the lives of those with dementia and their carers through design
Swisscom launches Room 2.0
CHI 2007 – Can user-centred design be harmful?
Researchers and practitioners meeting at CHI 2007 produced the surprising argument that user-centred design is a bad idea, writes Andy Daerden on Usability News. Instead, a range of alternative approaches were proposed for projects in developing countries such as “community…
LIFT conference video selection
I found some time today to watch the videos of the 2007 LIFT conference presentations. Here are my preferred ones: Panel discussion on technological overload with Stefana Broadbent of Swisscom Innovations (14:25); Daniela Cerqui, anthropologist at University of Lausanne, about…
Healthcare insurers conduct ethnographic research and test prototypes to provide more personalised experiences
Design’s ethnographic turn
Book: Personal Content Experience – Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age
The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure
36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia
More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter of 2007,…
Experientia launches Italian version of Putting People First
We are very pleased to announce that we have created an Italian version of Putting People First. Siamo molto lieti di annunciare la realizzazione di una versione italiana di Putting People First. It contains summaries of all the articles of…
Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches Torino GEODESIGN
Yesterday I went to a press conference by Torino 2008 World Design Capital at the Milan Design Fair which presented TORINO GEODESIGN. TORINO GEODESIGN (described in more detail in this Core77 article) is an international competition which will bring designers…