Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The Norwegian Design Council is organising a European Business Conference on Inclusive Design, 5-6 May in Oslo, Norway. Would you like to know how inclusive design can help you create new products and services? How design methods can take you…
The latest David Report bulletin, called “I shop therefore I am”, looks into the world of consumer culture from different point of views; ethical, social, political, economical and humanistic. Shopping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and…
Business Week reports on how Indians are using their cell phones as a “one-stop shop” for everything from e-mailing to banking. A growing group of Indian consumers who want more from their phone than just talk time. […] Indians spent…
Luca Chittaro (blog), a professor at the University of Udine, covers the CHI 2008 conference in Florence for Novà , the innovation supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s business newspaper. He is already at the pre-conference workshops where he is…
Matt Jones used to be director of user-experience design at Nokia. Now he is the co-founder of Dopplr, a social networking site for frequent travellers. Ryan Freitas of Adaptive Path recently had a long conversation with him that you can…
The UK Department for Children, Schools and Families launched last week its eagerly anticipated Byron Review into Children and New Technology. It contains a comprehensive package of measures to help children and young people make the most of the internet…
Paul Marks examines in the New Scientist how far people are prepared to go in accepting robots as social partners. “Duke is careering noisily across a living room floor resplendent in the dark blue and white colours of Duke University…
Firefox 3 hasn’t even launched yet, and the talk is already moving to Firefox 4. Mozilla Lab’s push is to blur the edges of the browser, to make it both more tightly integrated with the computer it’s running on, and…
Trendwatching published a feature post about status-yielding stories. Their central thesis: As more brands (have to) go niche and therefore tell stories that aren’t known to the masses, and as experiences and non-consumption-related expenditures take over from physical (and more…
Luca Chittaro will keep a running blog (in English and Italian) during CHI 2008 where he promises “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer interaction”. Chittaro, who is a professor at the University of…
“By 2020 the terms ‘interface’ and ‘user’ will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans,” is the first sentence of a short article on the BBC News site. According to the BBC, “it is one of the predictions…
It’s all over the Italian press (the winners) and the Turkish press (the losers), and on a small number of international news outlets: Milan will host the 2015 Universal Exposition (a.k.a. “Expo” or “World Fair”). In a day and age…
Next week on 8 and 9 April I will be at CHI 2008, the international conference that this year is taking place in Florence, Italy. On Wednesday afternoon you can find me in the panel on Interactions Magazine, that Richard…
The New York Times writes about a new wave of Silicon Valley companies that are bringing live socializing into online social networking Web sites: Compared with other forms of human interaction, online social networking is really not all that social.…
Idris Mootee, a business and innovation strategist, explores the disciplines of service design and experience design through some innovative, authenticity-inspired retail concepts (that in some ways are also reflected in the Eataly supermarket in Torino): “17 years ago, Alain Coumont…
Hugh Graham asks some serious questions about the role designers in promoting consumer culture, in a wider context of sustainability. “Should designers work toward the end of aspirational consumer culture? Can the design industry, broadly defined, reposition and reinvent itself…
Kate Rutter of Adaptive Path recently interviewed Nathan Shedroff, experience strategist, author, and the Program Chair and founder of the brand new MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts. They spoke about the new CCA MBA program,…
One of the statements that stuck with me at the recent Disruptive Thinking event in Barcelona, organised by the Art Center College of Design, was by author Sara Wheeler. She said: “Climate change is now part of the human experience,…
Robert X. Cringely, the pen name of technology journalist Mark Stephens, who is the host and writer of the hit PBS-TV miniseries “Electric Money”, has penned a polemic piece about culture and technology: “There is a technology war coming. Actually…
Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, will be moving to Helsinki in August and begin his new role as “Head of Design Direction with Nokia’s design staff, with a remit for the service and user…