Category HCD / UXD
Closed systems leave song buyers out in the cold [USA Today]
EU project to make the smart home more user-friendly
“Smart homes have been talked about for decades, but beyond a few concept houses and a few gadget-happy homeowners, little has been achieved in making them a bricks-and-mortar reality,” reports the EU’s IST Results website. “The TEAHA project team plans…
More on IDEO: now redesigning a law school
Experiencing experience
Slow+Design: experience design, the Slow Food way
Book: ‘We-Think’ on collective creativity
IDEO’s urban pre-planning [Metropolis Magazine]
Joined-up experiences [The Guardian]
In a marketplace that offers a bewildering array of hardware, software and services, the company that prioritises ease of use stands a chance of winning, says Jack Schofield in The Guardian. In the article, he compares Apple’s vertical model of…
What is user experience design?
Philips Design magazine on foresighting techniques, health and ‘sensitive’ interactions
Ziba Design on the importance of informed intuition [Fast Company]
User-centred design not so good when designing breakthrough products
Andy Budd on user experience design and user-centred design for the web
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a…
Jakob Nielsen on getting more users to contribute
Video material on experience design
Executive briefing on customer centred innovation
Of tails and walls [International Herald Tribune]
“The old model [of the global marketplace] was one of control,” said Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and author of the book “The Long Tail“, while he was recently in Paris. “Companies could control the user experience, and they…