Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
While a blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best recent advance in the mobile telecommunications user space came not from a mobile telecom company but from Apple…
Rosenfeld Media has just released its first book Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy With Human Behavior by Indi Young. There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is…
Information Week published a long story about location-aware technologies. “Even more difficult than employees’ privacy concerns will be those of consumers, once companies start reaching people based on where they are. For years we’ve heard the notion of a coupon…
February’s issue of Mechanical Engineering is focused on the role of human factors in design. The lead article, the new point of view, discusses the renewed importance of human factors in product design, with a veritable who’s who of IDSA…
Business Week carries a short article about how Humanized co-founder Aza Raskin is carrying on the design legacy of his father, a Macintosh pioneer. “Aza Raskin wants your computer to disappear, but the 24-year-old is no latter-day Luddite. His goal…
This paper by Tamar Sadeh describes a product that was released in May 2007—the Primo system from Ex Libris as an example of a new type of interface for searching and obtaining library materials, an interface designed around user needs…
“Amid the marketing blitz and pumping music of the show floor [of the Mobile World Congress] it is often difficult to pick out the trends which will have a real impact on the user experience,” writes Marek Pawlowski of MEX…
Several blogs report on the user experience session of the recent LIFT conference. Read what Nicolas Nova, Tom Hume, and Bruno Giussani had to say.
David Malouf, an interaction designer for Motorola Enterprise Mobility, explains the ins and outs of interaction design in a long article aimed at the industrial design community, published on Core77. Malouf thinks “poor attention [is] being paid to bringing interaction…
Most of the presentations of the recent Interaction 08 conference are now online. Here they are in alphabetical order of the speaker’s last name: Cinematic Interaction Design, Sarah Allen, Laszlo Systems (synopsis) Concept Ideation and IxD, Gretchen Anderson, Lunar (synopsis)…
How to design the user experience for professional options traders? This was the challenge faced by Gong Szeto, director of product design of OptionsHouse, an up and coming retail options brokerage, when he had to design their new options trading…
UXmatters just published two new articles: Designing ethical experiences: social media and the conflicted future By Joe Lamantia Questions of ethics and conflict can seem far removed from the daily work of user experience (UX) designers who are trying to…
Dan Hill, former head of interactive technology and design at the BBC and currently director of web and broadcast at Monocle, has published a long article on the street of the future. Here is his introduction: “I was recently asked…
Umpqua Bank has opened an Innovation Lab in Portland, Ore, showcasing emerging and existing technologies that foster community and redefine what consumers can expect from a banking experience. As a testing ground for new initiatives, the Lab will change regularly…
AppTrigger, the telecom application connectivity specialist, released new statistics revealing that more than half (57 per cent) of UK mobile phone owners use their phone for the same things that they did in 2003, despite 74 per cent believing that…
The website of the Microsoft Design Center looks like it is set up as a one-stop shop for everything related to design, usability and user experience that this huge company is involved with. Although somewhat shallow in substance and with…
The LIFT conference started on Wednesday and unfortunately I could not attend due to work pressures (our partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is there though). But there is a solution: fifteen presentations can already be viewed online. Check out Genevieve Bell (Intel),…
Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain WorldAdaptive Path on Design By Peter Merholz, Todd Wilkens, Brandon Schauer, David Verba First Edition February 2008 (est.) Paperback, 184 pages O’Reilly Media, Inc To achieve success in today’s…
Experientia’s blog “Putting People First” has been going for three years now and contains several thousand posts. Lots of things have changed in those three years. The term “experience design” has become mainstream and is sometimes even over-used; industry has…
In a previous post I wrote how it would be a good idea for the publishers of Interactions Magazine to make the magazine content available online. It just happened. Here is the announcement by Scott Delman, ACM Group Publisher: ACM…