Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Social currency is shared information that encourages further social encounters. It’s not a new concept, but the social web increases its prevalence. In the web-based collaboration software platform called Rypple, a simple act of thanking someone on a team and…
Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the internet age. The fate of your online…
As a follow-up to the previous post, Intel’s user experience discourse is further elaborated on by Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and the company’s Director of Interaction and Experience Research. Bell’s main job is to look at what motivates people, and…
Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, spoke at Intel’s Tech Fest — an event where Intel gathered in Oregon more than 1,000 of its top engineers and scientists from around the world to show off its latest innovations — about…
Mark Schatzker of Condé Nast Traveler tested the latest – and supposedly, greatest – of Augmented Reality apps in Rome, Italy, and was anything but impressed. “Can a $5 or $10 app really make visiting cities like Paris, Tokyo, or…
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco in September last year, Justin Rattner, the director of Intel Labs, announced a new research division, called Interaction and Experience Research (IXR) and headed by Genevieve Bell, and also presented a new…
Simple And Usable: Web, Mobile and Interaction Design by Giles Colborne New Riders, Sep 2010 Paperback, 208 pages In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic…
Behaviour change techniques should be used to develop public services with citizens’ motivations at the heart of their design, says a leading [UK] thinktank. A report produced by the New Local Government Network argues that using citizen’s to design services…
Thirty user experience (UX) researchers and practitioners participated in a three day seminar in Dagstuhl in order to bring clarity to the concept of user experience. The participants – who came from universities and corporations such as Logitech, Nokia, Philips…
Adrian Chan has posted what he calls a “big picture introduction” to the theory behind social interaction design. “I view social interaction design as a field that seeks user-centric descriptions of experiences and behaviors on social media, with an eye…
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, a Xerox Company), a premier center for commercial innovation, announced that Dr. Margaret Szymanski, Senior Researcher and interaction analyst on PARC’s Ethnography Services team and Dr. James Begole, Principal Scientist and manager of PARC’s Ubiquitous…
Stephen Turbek, Executive Director of User Experience at Morgan Stanley in New York, thinks the question whether users are smart or stupid, is really irrelevant, introduces the concept of Effective Intelligence instead, and explains how you can design for it.…
The European Union’s Working Party on Data Protection has issued five recommended requirements for the protection of personal privacy in a time of Smart Meters in the home (pdf), outlining what needs to happen in order to gain the benefits…
L’École de design in Nantes, France, has just launched the second issue of their research journal CADI, which focuses on co-creation, cross-disciplining and knowledge transfer. The three core feature articles are: From art history to industrial design history Jocelyne Le…
The study “Storytelling and Destination Development” by the Nordic Innovation Centre set out to scrutinize the possibilities and drawbacks of using storytelling as a means of developing and marketing Nordic tourism destinations. On the basis of five selected Nordic cases,…
UX designer Cennydd Bowles has posted the transcript of his closing plenary at the IA Summit 2011 in Denver, Colorado. “Although there’s still a substantial gap between aspiration and execution, business leaders are at least now talking about the right…
Dr. Ralph-Christian Ohr, a Swiss product manager, reflects thoughtfully on the recent strong discussion on user-led innovation. “There has been quite a lot of discussion recently about a post by Jens Martin Skibsted and Rasmus Bech Hansen, titled “User-Led Innovation…
Yesterday Brussels saw the launch of the English version of the Service Design Toolkit, which Design Flanders developed together with Belgian consultancies Yellow Window and Namahn. The launch took place at the international SEE conference on integrating design into regional…
Think Quarterly is a 64 page magazine published by Google UK “that brings together some of the world’s leading minds to discuss the big issues facing businesses today.” Here are some of the articles I picked out: Executive Insight Guy…
A recent Knight Foundation/Pew Research study shows how important, demonstrating that if citizens believe their city governments behave in a transparent manner and make information easily accessible, they tend to think more highly about their town and its civic institutions.…