Category HCD / UXD
New network for user-driven innovation in Denmark
A network of companies, designers, researchers and organisations are joining forces to write a script covering user-driven innovation. The purpose is that in the future, other players may utilise the pilot project’s experiences, writes Denmark’s daily business paper Børsen (and…
A focus on user-driven innovation in the Nordic region
User experience at Oracle
Envisioning the whole digital person [UX Matters]
Excellent feature article by Jonathan Follett in UX Matters: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitised—from the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster,…
Users who know too much [CIO Magazine]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on understanding alternative scenarios for the future
Today is International Slow Day
Donald Norman’s new book: “The Design of Future Things”
Advanced programme of CHI 2007 available
The CHI 2007 organisers have published an “advanced programme” of the conference, which will take place 28 April – 3 May in San Jose, California. Some highlights: Opening plenary: “Reaching for the intuitive” by Bill MoggridgeBill will attempt to show…
Usability to the people
Videos of “Digital, Life, Design” conference online
Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred toy company by involving their users to an…
Young, mobile, but not yet online [The Times]
User research in a different world
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan [AP]
Yuri Kageyama (blog), AP Business writer, reports: Visit Japan’s top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong “Mixi,” and you’ll see prim, organised columns and boxes of stamp-size photos – not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The…