Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
A new design discipline is emerging from groups across the world. It applies traditional design skills in a new way to social and economic issues. It uses the design process as a means for a wide range of disciplines and…
The Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Philips today opened the world’s first Ambient Experience Catheterisation Lab (CathLab). The ambient experience design concept aims to improve the workflow of physicians considerably and reduce anxiety of heart patients undergoing catheterisation.…
Why is Intel, the giant chip maker, in the process of hiring more than 100 anthropologists and other social scientists to work side by side with its engineers? While the success of this strategy will become clearer over the next…
When six-year-old Tilly Griffiths from Staffordshire wanted to join her elder sister’s ballet class, her parents turned for help to a little known charity that designs and manufactures one-off pieces of equipment for disabled people. Based in an old chapel…
Bob Jacobson is starting a new trend on his blog Total Experience. Rather than looking at precise commercial or institutional issues, he analyses broad social phenomena from the point of view of experience design, and hints at the possibility that…
How we spend our money is changing. In the new ‘experience economy’ we pay to do things, not have things. Melanie Howard, sociologist and co-founder of the Future Foundation, a consumer think-tank, believes that, as a society, we are hauling…
Researcher Bill Buxton started his career as a musician in Toronto, but found his true calling mixing computer science with his passions for music and design. Now at Microsoft Research, the human-computer interaction and computer graphics pioneer will collaborate with…
Travelers are starting to leave behind heavy, dog-eared guidebooks and instead are cramming their much lighter mobile devices with all the necessary tips they’ll need to discover new parts of the world. Airlines, tour operators, entrepreneurs and even old-fashioned travel…
Looking to generate new ideas about the future of play, Mattel invited the Interaction Design Institute to present concepts during its company-wide Play Experiences for the Next Generation workshop. Children discover the world through play. Playing shapes human mental and…
The credit-card giant scored a hit with its online “advergame.” And it’s not alone, as companies try to think of new ways to snag eyeballs There’s a new competition at the Winter Olympics this year — and it involves virtual,…
The British design magazine Design Week reports today that Richard Eisermann, director of design and innovation at the UK Design Council, has left the organisation prematurely to co-found the start-up consultancy Prospect, after two and a half years in the…
More than ever, people are getting on the Internet to hang out or just blow off some time, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said Wednesday. Some 40 million Americans said they go online just for…
The Persona Lifecycle, First Edition : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design The Persona Lifecycle (Amazon – Elsevier) addresses the “how” of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe…
Bob Jacobson just published a thoughtful reflection in his Total Experience blog on how experience design can help us becoming better prepared in dealing with a bird flu pandemic. “How we experience a potential crisis, a condition that by definition…
Features don’t matter any more. Welcome to the Age of User Experience. As computing and digital devices move more and more into the consumer space, features and functionalities will increasingly take the back seat as motivators for technology adoption: As…
The high-tech tracking of people’s preferences puts firms in touch with tastes. Over the past decade, e-commerce has taken a cue from the notion that friends give the best recommendations. Personalized suggestions have become more commonplace as various forms of…
Developing Leaders for Innovation is the name of a new minisite of the Chicago-based Institute of Design, with many examples of their work. The site is particularly interesting because it describes some user experience design tools and processes, such as…
Beacon Hill Village is an innovative nonprofit organisation created by and for local residents determined to grow old in familiar surroundings, and to make that possible for others. Community-based models for aging in place designed by the people who use…
LocaModa is a company that creates proprietary interactive networks that extend the power of the web to the steet helping consumers to opt-in and connect to brands. The have launched two services: StreetSurfer and StreetMessenger. StreetSurfer is a mobile-enabled interactive…
In a long story on the Design Council website, Peter Davies, chief executive of Pera International, reflects on the implications of emerging technologies and the pace of technological change for design and design professionals. “By tracking and understanding today’s emerging…