Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Delivering Design: Performance and Materiality in Professional Interaction Design is the title of the PhD dissertation Elizabeth Sarah Goodman defended last year to obtain the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley. It is…
Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry By Bill Ferster The MIT Press, 2012 ISBN-10: 0262018152, ISBN-13: 978-0262018159 (Amazon link) Abstract Interactive visualization is emerging as a vibrant new form of communication, providing compelling presentations that allow viewers to interact directly with…
UX consultant Thomas Wendt argues that the arguments in favor of invisible interfaces are making a few key mistakes, namely: Many are assuming that invisibility equates to seamless user experience There is an assumption that an interface can be either…
Recently Steve Whittaker, professor of human-computer interaction at the University of California at Santa Cruz, sat on a national committee to evaluate HCI research funding. “As part of that process, we discussed past successes and current challenges for HCI. It’s…
Three different categories of device – for the ears, eyes and wrists, and each with its own set of uses – will soon become prevalent, predicts new Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich. What the killer apps of these will be,…
The emerging experience economy offers a possibility – yet only a possibility – for rethinking and designing new frameworks for social interaction and new forms of behavior more conducive to mindfulness, conviviality, good sociability, and civility. But such designing, or…
Interaction 14 just announced its first keynote speakers: Saskia Sassen is someone to look forward to. A sociology professor at Columbia University, she is known for her critical and thought provoking thinking on a wide variety of themes that are…
The Jörgits and the End of Winter, an indie fantasy novel for kids nine and up, uses interactivity as a supplement to the story, not a stand-in for it, and shows how interactivity can work in a slightly more substantial…
Next year Interaction14, the top interaction design conference will be in Amsterdam, the second time it is in Europe (after Dublin in 2012). Now the website is live. And it is responsive (works great on a smartphone). Participate and be…
We at Experientia have always admired the work of Jake Barton and his company Local Projects, for the way that they have deeply woven people’s narration and storytelling into the design of interactive installations and museums. Now Jake has won…
Belching cars made of skin and bones, nuclear-powered trains in the shape of mountains and arrow-like formations of joined recumbent bicycles are just some of the ways we might travel around the country in the future, according to designers Dunne…
Digital books are software. The more interactive the experience, the more complex that software is to develop – and the greater the risk of creating a digital product that alienates. Taking a user-centered design approach to developing digital products helps…
Article published in the April 2013 issue of the International Journal of Design By Dan Lockton, David J. Harrison, Rebecca Cain, Neville A. Stanton, & Paul Jennings Design for behaviour change aims to influence user behaviour, through design, for social…
People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only about six years — counting from when Amazon introduced its Kindle in 2007.…
Have you heard that Google Glass will let you snap photos by winking? John Pavlus of the MIT Technology Review writes why that’s still going to feel weird. “The assumption driving these kinds of design speculations is that if you…
Jan-Christoph Zoels, an Experientia founding partner, was one of the panelists at the UNStudio Platform Dialogues during the Milan Design Week and a video of his discussion with Markus Benz (CEO Walter Knoll) and Birgit Lohmann (Associate Editor-in-chief Designboom), is…
Interactions Magazine is no longer the influential voice in the interaction design community that it used to be a few years ago. Lots of the reason why has to do with the fact that the bulk of the articles are…
The people behind the upcoming IxDA Interaction14 conference organized on 6 April a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Designâ€. 5 panelists debated with Interaction14 chair Alok Nandi on how to design for those interaction design…
The IxDA gathered in Toronto, Canada’s largest center for design, for its 6th annual conference. Here are the video records of the breakout talks that took place (grouped thematically). AGILE / LEAN Josh Seiden: A designer’s introduction to lean…
The IxDA gathered in Toronto, Canada’s largest center for design, for its 6th annual conference. Here are the video records of the keynotes and panel discussions that took place. KEYNOTES Albert Shum: Connecting – emerging themes for interactions [36:59] This…