Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Technology firms are pushing a futuristic vision of home entertainment not because consumers are desperate for it but because they themselves are. Whether or not computer, software, consumer-electronics, telecoms, cable and internet companies are in fact out of touch with…
“Designing for Experience” is a 128-page presentation with two extraordinarily detailed experience design case studies (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and VasSol CANVAS) that feature many diagrams and prototypes. The presentation was developed by Marc Rettig, principal of Fit Associates, and…
UPA 2006: usability through storytelling The annual conference of the UPA, the Usability Professionals’ Association, will take place on 12-16 June 2006 at the Omni Interlocken in Broomfield, Colorado, USA, located just outside Boulder and Denver. As usability professionals, we…
Big corporations today can be viewed as decision factories — but where’s the elegant design approach that’s applied to products? Great design is characterised by deep user understanding, visualisation of creative resolution of tensions, collaborative prototyping to enhance solutions, and…
Companies tailor new offerings to preteens and their parents. With an estimated 80 percent of adults between 18 and 65 owning a cell phone, the potential for growth in the cell phone market is slowing. By contrast, only 10 percent…
The narrow, cobbled streets of Cordoba in southern Spain are no place for a car, but Alfredo Romeo, a Spanish entrepreneur wanted to change that and set up a business with “blobjectsâ€, electric hire cars that are proving popular with…
My Experientia business partner Jan-Christoph Zoels alerted me to a series of New York Times articles on the isolated, frightening, overwhelming and often dehumanising experiences many patients have in hospitals, and what social, cultural and demographic changes are playing a…
Mark Vanderbeeken, the author of the experience design blog Putting People First and a senior partner of the experience design company Experientia, has been interviewed by Lele Dainesi, who is in charge of the Mash-ups in Italy blog and the…
Developed by LeapFrog Enterprises, a maker of educational toys, the amazingly clever Fly “pentop” computer is just what it sounds like: a talking computer hidden within a pen the size of an electric toothbrush. The gadget, which contains an actual…
What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be “flow,” and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it. Read full story
Lego released a new version of Lego Factory, a recently launched brand that combines Digital Designer — free software that lets children create their own 3D models — with the ability to let customers to share their personal designs as…
In this publication the Danish Government* presents initiatives within five new strategic target areas designed to create favourable frameworks capable of reinforcing development and growth potential in the culture and experience economy. The five target areas include the sports industry,…
[A number of] museums are busily implementing a variety of forms of ubiquitous (a.k.a. pervasive) computing to assist customers. […] What the museums learn about things such as delivering personalised multimedia content to mobile users, luring visitors to lesser-known exhibits…
On Neopets’ candy-colored, youth-oriented web site, kids create virtual pets and send them cruising the streets of the online land Neopia. They play games, shop, or make artwork for the site’s online galleries, which all sounds like harmless, creative fun.…
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Peter Jones of Redesign Research has written a viewpoint article on Designing From the User’s Experience for the August 2005 Design Management Institute eBulletin. In the article, he ties the broad the user experience concept to product and user research.…
Mobile phones have made people less organised and more willing to be late when meeting their friends, according to a survey.Nearly one in five people admitted to being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the “safety net” of a mobile.…
A digital diagram by Matt Zellmer shows how the “Experience” a company delivers to its customers (no matter what is sells) differs from “Experience” as a separate offering for which a company charges money. Read full post
In his blog Chris Lawer of The OMC Group just posted a copy of the presentation he gave to the research panel at Cranfield University School of Management. The pdf paper defines the “story of co-creation”, explores his research question,…
Polar Electro, the innovative leader in heart rate monitoring, and adidas, one of the world’s leading sports brands, have formed a partnership that will introduce the world’s first completely integrated training system. Called “Project Fusionâ€, it seamlessly integrates Polar heart…