Category HCD / UXD
Second thoughts on Second Life
Jesse James Garrett interview on usability and user experience
Fing: the next generation internet foundation from France
For some time now I have been following the French innovation blog Internet Actu, not realising that it was part of a bigger initiative called “Fing“. Fing stands for “Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération”, or the the next generation internet foundation,…
How feature creep ruined the moleskine city notebook
Breaking down the walls of phones’ web gardens
BT futurologist predicts the real and virtual merging
‘Game School’ aims to engage and educate
What’s good for a business can be hard on friends
Mobile providers claim to support social networks, but then actually hinder them in practice, as shown in this example from the US market (reported in The New York Times). In the US, T-Mobile is the exception with MyFaves allowing to…
As the vision fades, the indignities grow
Peter Morville on “Ambient Findability and The Future of Search”
Peter Morville, widely recognised as a founding father of information architecture, spoke in June 2007 at Google TechTalks on “Ambient Findability and The Future of Search” (video online). At the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, the user experience…
Jared Spool on “The Dawning of the Age of Experience”
Ambient Devices releases two smart and practical everyday products
What patients want
eBay’s Meg Whitman on improving the finding and auction experience
Central role for co-creation and ethnography at new Nokia design studio in Bangalore
Nokia’s new design studio in Bangalore, India, will use co-creation and ethnographic approaches to explore new design ideas for mobile phones targeted at the Indian market. InfoWorld reports: The studio in India is one of four satellite studios that Nokia…
New Virgin planes take user experience up a notch
Promoting user-centred design innovation in Ireland
Management guru C.K. Prahalad and the experience of the teddy bear
In an article in the Dutch language Voka Tribune (Voka is the professional association of companies in Flanders, Belgium), management guru C.K. Prahalad talks about the importance of co-creating experiences, starting from the Build the Bear example. Since the article…