Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
India is one of the world’s hottest mobile design locations today. The Hindu Business Line reports on what handset makers think of design in India, and how they track trends and make gadgets that reflect people’s personality and needs. The…
Charles Leadbeater is an innovation thinker and a spokesman for collective creativity. In Charles Leadbeater’s latest project, We-think, he argues that mass creativity, mass participation and open standards will be the next big thing. The Danish Innovation Lab just had…
Together, the Danish Design Centre and the production company TWO+ have made the film “Innovation via Design – The Danish way to compete in the world market”. The film will be used in the branding efforts for Danish design in…
Everyday Engineering: What Engineers See by Andrew Burroughs, IDEO Hardcover: 204 pages Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 6, 2007) Book page | Amazon page Abstract From soaring industrial structures to the humble manhole cover and streetlight, everything in the built environment…
An anthropological take on wireless broadband technology Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and director of user experience at Intel, gave a lecture this week at Rice University in Houston, Texas, entitled “From the Electrical Fairy to the Magic Box:…
Business Week published a special report on design schools which contain a few stories that are quite relevant to what is being dealt with in this blog: The cross-discipline design imperative In a new, multi-skill approach, traditional design tactics are…
Lucas Pettinati has published a long article on the design challenges for mobile user interfaces on the Yahoo! User Interface Blog. The single most important concept to master when designing mobile device interfaces is “contextâ€. The context in which an…
The latest issue of Frog Design Mind (permalink), the bi-monthly newsletter of Frog Design Inc., is devoted to identity and contain a rich group of articles on “the struggle to find new meaning in the growing landscape of design”. Here…
Thoughtful Interaction Design A Design Perspective on Information Technology Jonas Löwgren and Erik Stolterman MIT Press, 2007 ISBN: 0262622092 212 pages The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual technical concerns of usability and usefulness to consider interaction…
Mobi Ad Network has published an interview with Blyk’s Marko Ahtisaari where he talks about the design of the service, user testing, targeting and personalisation. Blyk – the first completely ad-supported MVNO – launched this week in the UK market.…
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Bruce Sterling is now living in Torino, Italy and will stay here, together with his wife, Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tesanovic, until the end of March 2008. He is here at the invitation of the Regional Government of Piedmont…