Category Design
A PC for peasant farmers? China targets digital divide.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on how China’s computermakers tap vast rural market with simple tools and local officials’ support. Lenovo, the world’s third-largest computermaker and China’s best-known global brand, chose China’s northeastern town of Langfang to “launch its assault…
Picnic07: Swisscom anthropologist on why everything is moving into the background
Universities, design, user experience and innovation
Ethnographic research to design a better osteoporosis diagnosis device? Of course!
EU benchmark shows mixed results on user experience of online public services
Every year, the EU Benchmark Survey assesses the quality of online public services in Europe. For the first time, the survey also looked at the users experience when accessing on-line public services, in recognition of the growing importance of this…
Donald Norman on the importance of unmet needs
Robots turn off senior citizens in ageing Japan
The French and their mobiles
Ferrari on the importance of understanding users
“The user as an unconscious sensor of the environment” was the title of Antonio Calvosa’s (Ferrari S.p.A.) keynote speech today at the Ubicomp conference in Innsbruck, Austria. Abstract: This talk adheres to the vision that in order to bring key…