Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Timo Arnall, a designer working with interactive products and media, runs a design research project that looks at emerging technologies at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. In a new presentation he explores the current shift in technology from…
Yesterday Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group, gave a lecture at Indiana University’s School of Informatics. One of the university’s doctoral student reports: Bell used an ethnographic lens to examine…
The fourth annual international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark last week. As described by Lucy Kimbell, EPIC “brings together those working in organizations for whom ethnography is central to their practice. They might be…
On April 23, Donald Norman gave a talk at the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago on the “Design of Future Things”. A few weeks ago Jeff Howard published a transcript of this talk. Video (678 mb) and audio (64…
Nicolas Nova has posted some quick pointers about the relationships between science-fiction and HCI/interaction design on his blog: Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies by Michael Schmitz surveys the different kind of interaction design sci-fi movies envisioned during the…
Teemu Arina, who will speak at the upcoming Mobile Monday event in Amsterdam, has put a lengthy essay on his blog on the topic “how mobile is changing our society.” “I have a feeling that the question we pose today…
Marc Hassenzahl is Junior Professor for Economic Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Koblenz-Landau. He is also a freelance usability consultant, president of the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association, and the author of over 30 journal…
Jonathan Follett of Hot Knife Design is a prolific writer. His latest article in the October issue of UXmatters addresses the integration of the physical and the virtual in digital input devices: As we create our digital lives—communicating and socializing…
The current edition of Vodafone Receiver Magazine is devoted to location and geowebbing, or as they write: “annotating real space digitally and using the world itself as our interface”. Two authors have already contributed on the theme, and more articles…
According to Internet News, handset makers are seeking skilled developers for interactive networking devices and the rise of social networking applications on a smaller screen. Mobile handset makers are on the trail of the next hot smartphone, with features such…
Jeff Parks of Boxes and Arrows just posted a lot of material from the recent IDEA Conference (Chicago, 7-9 October), including a 41 slide presentation (pdf) by Aradhana Goel, the service design strategist at IDEO: When we look through the…
A month ago I posted about Philips new intimate massager product range. It turns out there was quite a bit of qualitative user testing involved, as you can read in this background article and this interview.
The September edition of the American architecture magazine ArchiTech contains a special section on experience design. The section, which sees experience design as “a new way of thinking, designing, engaging that uses media and architecture to produce immersive spaces”, is…
On this blog, we have repeatedly featured the insights of Marko Ahtisaari, the former director of design strategy at Nokia and now director of brand and design at the advertising-supported phone company Blyk, and earlier this year we had the…
Carphone Warehouse, the British mobile phone retail chain, in conjunction with the London School of Economics, has released its fifth Mobile Life report, a comprehensive study into the technology usage habits of children and adults in the UK and US.…
Designers and developers should be consulting their psychologists, says BBC columnist Bill Thompson. “Major sites like Facebook are constantly being redesigned on the basis of little real understanding of how people engage with their computers. Vast amounts of work have…
Janet Rae-Dupree of the New York Times explores the latest about design thinking: “The word “design” tends to conjure up images of crisp graphics, nicely arranged interiors or pleasing packaging. But a growing cadre of advocates say the world of…
The Nokia Research Center has recently published some technical reports that could be interesting for some of our readers: User perception and usability of MyNet concepts Advances in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and web technologies have recently enabled P2P personal and social…
Mobile Revolutions is a great blog about mobile phones, youth and social change by Lisa Campbell, that I discovered via Mobile Active. What’s more, she has actually taken the time to write a lengthy, seriously researched and in-depth paper to…