Blinklist and the human mind
Blinklist, a new social bookmarks manager (still in Beta), makes a lot of claims about functioning the same way that our mind does: “BlinkList is a tool that allows you to create a mental map of the internet of sites…
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Category HCD / UXD
The Work Foundation’s iSociety project
The Work Foundation’s iSociety project is a definitive and independent analysis of the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on our everyday lives. The UK-based project is especially focused on the ways that information and communications technologies (ICTs) are…
Better by design [RSA Journal]
Design used to be associated purely with aesthetics. Today it has been embraced by business leaders and is advocated for social policy development. Nico Macdonald (blog) investigates these claims. Read text-only version Download laid out version (pdf, 176 kb) (via…
MEX: the mobile user experience conference
MEX, the PMN mobile user experience conference, will take place on 6 and 7 September 2005 in London. The two day conference provides insight into all aspects of the mobile user experience, including technology platforms, design strategy and the commercial…
Innovation through people-centred design – lessons from the USA
This very interesting Global Watch* mission report (which I just finished reading) summarises the results of an official UK field trip to the US to investigate the impact of people-centred research in the design process. The authors were interested in…
Insights from “Thoughtless Acts” [Business Week]
Veteran designer Jane Fulton Suri who is the author of the new book Thoughtless Acts, discerns unmet consumer needs via keen observations of ordinary people doing ordinary things.Some industrial designers sketch, some study new material technology, some collect inspiration from…
Anthropologists help Intel in emerging markets [Red Herring]
In a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel has set up four new offices in Bangalore, Cairo, Sao Paulo and Shanghai that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. The four…
European executives rely on customer understanding to boost innovation, survey shows
A Booz Allen Hamilton innovation survey, conducted in the late summer and autumn of 2004, asked European executives to rate the importance of various drivers of innovation performance. Top of their list is improved customer understanding or customer insight, whether…
Understanding why people buy [Business Week]
We all hear that successful innovation depends on creating value for customers. Repeatedly, we see that the key to creating value lies in designing meaningful experiences. But what does this jargon really mean? And more important, how does it impact…
Koreans find secret cybersauce [Wired News]
There’s more to online social networks than matchmaking, and South Korea’s Cyworld is showing the way. The online service blends homepage building and social networking with a host of other online activities, including Sims-like role-playing. Owned by South Korea’s SK…
Buongiorno acquires Freever
Buongiorno Vitaminic SpA, an Italian multinational and one of the world’s leading groups in the mobile value-added service (VAS) sector, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a 100 percent stake in Freever, a leading European company in the…
User Experience Week 2005
Adaptive Path, a San Francisco based experience design company, organises User Experience Week 2005, a week of thought-provoking workshops on current issues, trends and techniques in user experience design in Washington DC, August 22-25, 2005. Guest speakers include Jared Spool…
Design and Emotion 2006
The fifth conference on Design and Emotion will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on September 27-29, 2006. Emotions arise towards people, towards places, towards food and towards things. Emotions influence our well-being as well as our purchase decisions. From a…
Europe Zips Lips; U.S. Sells ZIPs [The New York Times]
The U.S. looks at privacy largely as a consumer and an economic issue; in the rest of the developed world, it is regarded as a fundamental right. Read full story
RSS entering corporations [Information Week]
In a world of content overload–with e-mail always pushing information and thousands of web sites pulling us–more people are using RSS readers to cope. The grassroots technology, used for the past few years by bloggers and news junkies, is finding…
Indigenous people bridging the digital divide [World Changing]
Indigenous peoples are using both digital and narrative media to preserve and express their cultures and beliefs. Often this involves adapting media and technology to what the people need, rather than pushing them into a pre-digested or “mainstream” model of…
Creating emotional bonds [Los Angeles Times]
The Los Angeles Times has a feature story on emotional design, examining how emotions drive decisions and how designing with emotion in mind is becoming steadily more important. The story includes comments by Tim Brown, chief executive of IDEO, design…
Making Meaning: The Business of Experience Design
Making Meaning: The Business of Experience Design is a book about how people make meaning in their lives and how companies can use this understanding to create more meaningful and successful products and services. In this book, the authors Steve…
DUX2005 conference in San Francisco
ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGGRAPH and AIGA are co-organising the 2005 edition of the Designing for User eXperience conference (DUX2005), focused on how the needs and goals of both users and businesses can be met through design. The conference will take…
Business Week infographs on innovation
Take a look at these diagrammes and infographs providing insight into the innovation process: its failures, its successes and its opportunities. Interestingly, Business Week identifies customer understanding, customer experience design, strategic design and foresight as the most promising routes for…