Category HCD / UXD
Bill Buxton on designing for experience
What’s cool online? Teenagers render verdict [The New York Times]
Video of discussion with Nokia’s Chris Heathcote
Simona Maschi on scenarios and service design
Qualitative Yahoo! research on teens and technology
P&G’s marketing chief about putting the consumer at the centre
World Usability Day on 3 November 2005
The Usability Professional Association (or UPA, of which I am a member) organises on 3 November 2005 its World Usability Day (WUD) with events in 77 cities and 33 countries. The activities revolve around the common theme – “Making it…
Design for the New China Markets conference
Interview with David Kelley of IDEO
Users as designers of public services
Demos, the British think tank for everyday democracy and the publisher of The Greenhouse weblog, organises a series of monthly discussions about innovation and future leadership in education and public services, called Open Secrets. Tellingly, the latest discussion, which was…
BBC Radio 4 discusses anthropology in business
In a 30 minute dicussion with six guests, BBC Radio 4 delves into the topic of anthropologists who no longer observe tribal people out in the jungle, but watch us instead. This approach is meant to give busy executives an…
Reflecting on Sony’s integration of user experience and branding
Ian McArthur reflects in the CPH127 blog on Sony’s Qualia product series, and how it is an example of how “user experience†can be extended and elaborated on to integrate seamlessly with branding strategy. The effect in this case, he…
Smart cards make inroads in European transit [International Herald Tribune]
Bus to the train station, train to the city, subway to the office – all with one ticket. With advances in smart card technology and agreements between transport companies, that scenario is becoming a reality. “Being able to use a…
Upcoming conferences
This post is no longer updated. Visit instead this shared calendar of experience design events and conferences.
Next steps for Wi-Fi [International Herald Tribune]
In re-reading an article on the future of Wi-Fi from last week’s Herald Tribune, I was struck by a comment towards the end: “What doesn’t work is the complexity to get onto a Wi-Fi network. The ability to make wireless…
1000 European cities take aim at car use [BBC]
(After two posts about car companies, this is refreshing) Hundreds of towns and cities across Europe begin a week of events designed to persuade people to choose forms of transport other than cars. More than 900 towns and cities in…
PSA Peugeot Citroën on designing for the senses
The current magazine of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the French car manufacturing group, is devoted to a car’s sensory dimensions. Cars appeal to all of our senses. We use our sight, hearing, smell and touch to appraise the shape and colour…
BMW on the elements of the driving experience
In this speech, BMW board member Burkhard Göschel discusses the elements of the driving experience (which he defines as a complex subjective and emotional experience that appeals to all the senses and also responds to external influences), the BMW take…
Donald Norman on Google’s so-called “simplicity”
Is Google simple? No. Google is deceptive. It hides all the complexity by simply showing one search box on the main page. The main difference, is that if you want to do anything else, the other search engines let you…