Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The fact that young people are more adapt at using the latest technologies has less to do with expertise, experience or access, but more with their “non-dramatic” relation with these technologies, as evidenced by the way they deal with small…
The Christian Science Monitor published an interesting article that voices scepticism on whether the planned carbon-neutral city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi could indeed become a sustainable urban innovation model globally: “The project has done little to impress green city…
Wired Magazine reports on how Japanese handsets have become prime examples of feature creep gone mad. In many cases, they say, phones in Japan are far too complex for users to master. Yet, they wonder whether the iPhone stands any…
Holger Struppek (a design director at Hot Studio and former senior interaction designer at Pentagram Design) shares on his Physical Interface (!) blog some design insights that went into Wells Fargo’s touchscreen ATM interface–a product freed from a major hardware-imposed…
In a month’s time Turin, Italy will host the XXIII edition of the World Congress of Architecture, promoted by the UIA (International Union of Architects). More than 4000 participants have registered already. There are over 70 sessions with more than…
Nokia press release: LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Today marks the launch of the new long-term research partnership between Nokia Research Center and the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, with the Pervasive Communications Laboratory doors officially opening in Lausanne. The focus of…
The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing…
A Design Council case study illustrates how a people-centred redesign of the T-Mobile phone bill has resulted in customers being substantially less likely to phone customer services for help understanding their bill. Although the user research was limited, it was…
If you are considering coming to Turin, Italy this year, you may want to come at the end of June and/or the beginning of July. Not only is that the time when two important conferences — the World Congress of…
95% of consumer electronics products returned to retailers are working “properly”, according to Accenture. ? ? ? ? ? “Only 5 percent of consumer electronics products returned to retailers are malfunctioning — yet many people who return working products think…
The Spring issue of Ambidextrous, the design journal of the Stanford d.school, contains a fairly long interview with Joy Mountford>. Joy has been designing and managing interface design efforts for over 20 years. Most recently she was vice president in…
David Armano of Critical Mass catches Business Week’s Bruce Nussbaum for a half hour interview on design and innovation. In the interview Bruce talks about the One Laptop Per Child, the difference between design and design thinking, the changing concept…
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is organising a four-part lecture series on “Digital Natives,” referring to the generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part of their lives, especially the young…
HCI Remixed – Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community Edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald MIT Press, 2008 Hardcover, 344 pages > Table of Contents Abstract Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction…
The Spanish innovation network Infonomia features a video section (called Infonomia TV) with a series of English language video interviews that the readers of this blog might find interesting: Nicolas Nova: The future of urban computing [5:25] Nicolas Nova is…
Sohrab Vossoughi, founder and president of ZIBA Design, has published an article in Business Week on authenticity, with examples from the Umpqua Bank, Starbucks, and the Anthropologie clothing chain. “Consumers seek meaning and a brand they can trust. They are…
Business Week reports on how Americans flock to different sites when they use their mobile phones to go online, than when they surf from their computers. “Welcome to the weekend Web, where people are spending a bigger slice of time…
Harvard Business Review has published a long article by Tim Brown, the CEO of IDEO, on design thinking. “Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy,” says Brown. “Edison’s approach was an early…