Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Design
Clay Shirky’s talk about the cognitive surplus
Clay Shirky, author of the book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organising without Organisations (see also these posts), was one of the presenters at the Web 2.0 conference: Mark Ury, chief experience architect for Blast Radius, was there and…
April 2008 issue of International Journal of Design
The April issue of the International Journal of Design has recently been published. It is the fourth issue of this peer-reviewed journal issued by the Taiwan-based Chinese Institute of Design (read more here). Three-in-One user study for focused collaboration by…
How Nokia users drive innovation
Business Week reports on how online aps such as Sports Tracker and Nokia Beta Lab, allow the Finnish handset giant to gather customers’ ideas from around the world, and virtually for free. “Sports Tracker is an example of how Nokia…
Microsoft developing ‘senior PC’
Microsoft UK is developing a “senior PC”, which will have a simple interface and be aimed at older users, writes Jane Wakefield on BBC News. The machine will come software that allows users to manage prescriptions as well as simplified…
Homegrown – Nokia’s new design thinking on sustainability
Nokia press release (dated 29 April 2008): Nokia’s advanced design team today shared “Homegrown”, a long term research project looking at how Nokia can help people make more sustainable choices. The team is exploring specific environmental and social issues including…
Cell surfing 2008
Buongiorno commissioned a qualitative research in November 2007 to understand mobile internet behaviour of 18-34 year olds in the UK — what role it plays in their lives, key themes shaping their behaviour, and what’s in stall for the future…
New Linden Lab CEO announces user-centred vision for Second Life
Earlier this week, Linden Lab, creator of the well-known virtual world Second Life, announced a new CEO: Mark Kingdon, currently CEO of digital marketing firm Organic. He will be taking over in mid-May. Technology Review assistant editor Erica Naone spoke…
Audio files of IA Summit sessions
The IA Summit was held in Miami, FL from April 10-14. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions. Keynote: “Journey To The Center of Design” – Jared Spool Jared enlightens and entertains with his keynote address. It…
Down with innovation
Rick Poynor, a writer and critic based in London specializing in visual culture, wrote a provocative essay (published in I.D. Magazine), tackling contemporary indulgence with design thinking and innovation: Design is now so important, it seems, that designers can no…
Understanding Users – a workshop in Brussels
Design Flanders and Flanders In Shape organise a one-day conference and intensive training on user-centred design in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels on 22 May. Experientia’s Jan-Christoph Zoels and Mark Vanderbeeken (the author of this blog) are in charge of…
Brand interactions are the future
Germany wants to become world leader in design for the elderly
The German government just announced a high level initiative for universal and transgenerational design to archive world leadership in the production of innovative products for the elderly including innovation strategies, product and service development, design school projects, and a universal…
IBM launches mobile web initiative aimed at emerging markets
IBM press release: At the 10th anniversary commemoration of IBM’s India Research Lab, the company this week unveiled a new initiative to bring even more features and functions to mobile devices as they continue to rival the PC as the…
Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
iTunes U is an area of iTunes that lets universities in the US share – for free! – audio and video from their lectures, talks and events. The contents are globally accessible. By clicking on Power Search, you can easily…
Computers for the people
Stu Card, manager of the user interface group at the famed Palo Alto Research Center and Ted Selker of MIT’s Media Lab discussed human interfaces for mobile computers at the recent Sofcon 2008, and just how differently engineers have to…
The Fluid Project
Network World reports that “a handful of universities, including the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley, is working to build a software architecture and reusable components that can make Web applications easier to develop and use. The…
The restless mind
Mark Ury contacted me the other day. He is the chief experience architect for Blast Radius and has a very good blog, entitled “The Restless Mind“, that features the kind of “slow” insightful writing that I really enjoy. Take a…
Jared Spool: user-centred design is dead?
As keynote speaker at the IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool puts his foot in it: Jared Spool, the IA Summit 2008 keynote speaker, posited the idea that UCD was an out-dated methodology that should be retired by the UX community.…
CHI 08 – a bite-size review
Joanna Bawa, editor of Usability News, has published a short review of the CHI conference. She appreciated that the main feeling of the conference was more closely allied to design, as clearly expressed by Irene McAra McWilliam and Bill Buxton.…