Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Design
Delta Airlines: change the experience / experience change
Swisscom launches Room 2.0
CHI 2007 – Can user-centred design be harmful?
Researchers and practitioners meeting at CHI 2007 produced the surprising argument that user-centred design is a bad idea, writes Andy Daerden on Usability News. Instead, a range of alternative approaches were proposed for projects in developing countries such as “community…
LIFT conference video selection
I found some time today to watch the videos of the 2007 LIFT conference presentations. Here are my preferred ones: Panel discussion on technological overload with Stefana Broadbent of Swisscom Innovations (14:25); Daniela Cerqui, anthropologist at University of Lausanne, about…
Healthcare insurers conduct ethnographic research and test prototypes to provide more personalised experiences
Design’s ethnographic turn
Book: Personal Content Experience – Managing Digital Life in the Mobile Age
User-centered design game
The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure
Mobile is the 7th Mass Media and is to internet like TV is to radio
36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia
More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter of 2007,…
Interaction design for classrooms
Web 2.0 is not for India
Avnish Bajaj, co-founder and Managing Director of Matrix India (the $150-million India fund of Matrix Partners, a global venture capital company) thinks Web 2.0 is not for India: “I think people are wasting their time on Web 2.0 in India.”…
Vodafone research on what women expect from mobile phones
Experientia launches Italian version of Putting People First
We are very pleased to announce that we have created an Italian version of Putting People First. Siamo molto lieti di annunciare la realizzazione di una versione italiana di Putting People First. It contains summaries of all the articles of…
Nokia global user study on where people carry their phone
Carlo Ratti and Régine Debatty featured in Ventiquattro magazine
Last Saturday (14 April), Carlo Ratti of MIT’s Senseable City Lab and Régine Debatty of we-make-money-not-art.com were featured in a six page article in Ventiquattro, the magazine of the highly regarded Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (somewhat comparable to…
Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches Torino GEODESIGN
Yesterday I went to a press conference by Torino 2008 World Design Capital at the Milan Design Fair which presented TORINO GEODESIGN. TORINO GEODESIGN (described in more detail in this Core77 article) is an international competition which will bring designers…