Category HCD / UXD
User Experience 2.0: Any User, Any Time, Any Channel
Nokia study reveals consumer demand for digital convergence
Mobile user interfaces – it’s time for a new paradigm
Innovation through design thinking
Anthropologists help IT focus on how employees really work [Computer World]
Can collaboration help redefine usability?
“Imagine if [you] could go to a web site that served as a single point of entry to a rich, ever-evolving knowledge base reflecting the current state of the [usability] field,” ponders Charles B. Kreitzberg in the third issue of…
Focusing on the ideal user experience
Why “humane” might be a better word than “usable”
Banks creating a better branch experience
Experience things before they exist [The Economist]
Latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine devoted to usability in Pacific Rim
The latest issue of User Experience (UX) Magazine, published by the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA), is devoted to “usability around the Pacific Rim”. Zhengjie Liu writes about usability and user-centered design practice in China, Cindy Lu discusses the opportunities for…
Ethnographic study of robotic products in the home
B2B sites have far worse user experience than consumer sites [Forbes Magazine]
Ecosystems and product innovation
The science of desire [Business Week]
Ten potential pitfalls of participatory design methods
Jeff Axup writes in his blog Mobile Community Design about ten potential pitfalls in the application of participatory design methods. “Participatory design (PD) is a design framework and related methods which advocate user involvement in design, and a political stance…
Just give me a simple phone [Associated Press]
Experientia partner publishes Italian book on web site usability
User-centered innovation at Intel [Electronic Business]
In a three-part special report of Electronic Business, Herman D’Hooge, innovation strategist in the User-Centered Platform Solutions Division at Intel, explains how a company can use a user-centered innovation process to engineer and develop innovative products. D’Hooge also gives an…