Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category HCD / UXD
Working knowledge [Computing Business]
Chinese-European collaboration on HCI, usability and user-centred design
The Sino European Systems Usability Network (SESUN) is an EU funded project developing active and sustainable links between the Chinese and European IT communities, as well as promoting HCI / usability within China and facilitating the design of a new…
Self-checkout? Just you wait [The Washington Post]
To charge up customers, put customers in charge [The New York Times]
Ethnographic studies of ubiquitous computing
Organic launches Experience Labs
Interaction-Ivrea’s final show
Hooked on the virtual world [International Herald Tribune]
Don Norman on the need to call people people, not customers, not consumers, not users
Transforming everyday objects into game controllers
Control Freaks, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Haiyan Zhang, “explores new gaming experiences that fold the world into play by using existing situations and environments as game playing moments.” “Control Freaks are devices that attach to everyday objects, turning them…
MULE: reclaiming the city through pervasive play
Designing meaningful coincidences
Occasional Coincidences is the title of the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Nicholas Zambetti. It looks at how systems that recognize and present meaningful coincidences can be designed. A few days ago, Régine Debatty summarised the project on we-make-money-not-art: “In the…
Discover and experience location-based services
Enabling democracy through communications technology
Morphing and transforming objects as new interfaces
Thimble, a location-based social network for lending and renting using reputation as currency
uni.me, a new mobile communication service centred on people’s availability
What if a mobile phone could provide easily glanceable information of people’s availability? To answer that question, Ana Camila Pinho Amorim developed uni.me, a new mobile communication service and Ana’s graduation project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. uni.me supports us…