Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Interaction design
Consumer technology: is “ease-of-use” a myth?
A panel recently discussed the growing problems with product design features vs. the cry for “make it easy to use†and where designers and developers have to address this issue to win back consumers. Speakers were Bill Moggridge, founder of…
Ancient manuscript teaches machines how to talk to people
New York Times on interactive mirror in department store
MIT Media Lab Europe founder starts Distance Lab
International Herald Tribune on user interface design
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…
The human factor in gadget, Web design [CNET News]
MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab
The MIT Mobile Experience Lab is a new established research lab within the MIT Design Laboratory. Through its research it aims to radically reinvent and design the connections between people, ideas, physical places and information technologies in order to improve…
Audio interview with Bill Moggridge on interaction design
Jumping jack flash – new forms of interactions
My Experientia business partner and friend, Jan-Christoph Zoels, is one of the main speakers at LIFT 07, a conference that starts today in Geneva, focused on the “challenges and opportunities of technology in our society”. In his talk tomorrow entitled…
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels on interaction design
Nickelodeon begins a web site focusing on interactive play [The New York Times]
Tadam: reinventing the puppet theatre experience
Innovation and the prosperity of nations [Core77]
“At the recent Competitiveness Summit, the connections between business and innovation were made starkly clear,” writes Nico Macdonald in a Core77 article. In November 2005 the UK Treasury published the Cox Review of Creativity in Business, addressing “a question that…