Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Donald Norman has posted a number of columns/essays on his blog: People are from earth, machines are from outer space [Interactions 2008 column] People are from earth. Machines are from outer space. I don’t know what kind of manners they…
Alastair Curtis, Nokia’s chief designer, discusses his design inspirations, coming Nokia devices and how Indian teenagers will influence the future of mobility, in an interview published on Forbes.com. As Nokia’s chief designer, a post the company veteran has held since…
A three-year research project that explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives has just published its report. “Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” is a collaborative project funded by the…
Michelle Fuller, Director at eDigitalResearch, writes in the Financial Times on the user experience of online banking: With the banking sector moving towards consolidation, it is crucial that customers are understood, reacted to and rewarded for their loyalty. With the…
Wired’s Gadget Lab blog contemplates the future of the mobile phone: Buttons are on their way out. Five years from now, it is likely that the mobile phone you will be holding will be a smooth, sleek brick — a…
“How can you rob a bank in a world without money?” wonders science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, one of the collaborators of the new foresight project KashKlash. KashKlash is a lively platform where you can debate future scenarios for economic…
Experientia is often involved in supporting and promoting the Piedmont, Italy territory where it is located. Our latest initiative is Diana, a machine designed to satisfy existing and future needs of the beauty industry, based on an analysis of current…
The Washington Post published a long article on how, for every move, mood and bodily function, there’s a website to help you keep track. “Self-disclosure has been redefined online. In Web 2.0, it’s led to blogs and Tweets, Facebook and…
Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer O’Reilly Media, Inc. Paperback, 268 pages December 3, 2008 ISBN: 0596518390 Promo text: If you want to get started in new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Packed with informative…
Last week, Nokia launched its Nokia Life Tools (backgrounder), a range of innovative agriculture information and education services designed especially for rural and small town communities in emerging markets. From the press release: “Nokia Life Tools helps overcome information constraints…
Hilary Cottam is the 2005 UK Designer of the Year and former director of RED [archive site], the meanwhile closed innovation unit of the UK Design Council. I interviewed her last year for Torino World Design Capital site. And she…
The Nokia Conversations blog reports that one big shift at Nokia is going beyond maps and thinking more about places (locations full of information). Nokia is also going beyond the simple contact card to a more dynamic representation of who…
The Caryatids (hardcover) by Bruce Sterling Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Del Rey (February 24, 2009) During a speech at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Bruce Sterling announced his next book “The Caryatids”. According to Sterling, the book which will be published in…
An interesting article in Scientific American discusses a new insight about forgetting: although the brain contains detailed representations of lots of different events and objects, we can’t always find that information when we want it. “As this study reveals, if…
The Wall Street Journal reports on how businesses are tapping designers for innovative ideas on management. “When New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center wanted to make the chemotherapy process easier on patients three years ago, it sought help from an…
Last week frog design and IxDA NY organised Tiger.Blam, a public conversation with Nokia’s Jan Chipchase on effective design research in cross-cultural mobile markets, or in other words, how he ‘designs’ his research expeditions. No video or presentation download is…
In this nearly 27 minute video Bruce Sterling, a leading futurist, speaker, columnist and science fiction writer, shares his vision on where mobile is heading. Preaching his story from a somewhat unconventional place, the pulpit instead of the stage, he…
Two user experience magazines landed on my desk this week. They are available only to subscribers, both in print and online. But subscriptions are relatively cheap. User Experience is the quarterly magazine of the Usability Professionals’ Association (membership is a…
Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM wrote an article on ubiquitous computing user experience design for ACM’s interactions magazine. The user experience design of most everyday ubiquitous computing devices—things you see in gadget blogs—is typically terrible. That’s because we do not address…