Category Design
NESTA call for user-focused solutions to mental health problems
The UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling for innovative project proposals from front-line workers, carers and people with direct experience of mental distress, to tackle some of the key challenges surrounding mental health in…
In Europe, the social network as digital friend [International Herald Tribune]
How Second Life changes customer service
Ubiquitous computing is messy
Some of my favourite blogs nominated for Webby award
Simplicity: the ultimate sophistication
Experience or don’t experience. There is no try.
Consumer technology: is “ease-of-use” a myth?
A panel recently discussed the growing problems with product design features vs. the cry for “make it easy to use†and where designers and developers have to address this issue to win back consumers. Speakers were Bill Moggridge, founder of…
Mixed feelings [Wired Magazine]
McKinsey on how businesses are embracing Web 2.0. But why are they afraid of blogs?
Social-networking sites have business uses too [The Economist]
Experientia interviews Paola Zini, director of Torino 2008 World Design Capital
Core77, the online design magazine, published today an interview with Paola Zini, the director of Torino 2008 World Design Capital, conducted by Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken. The interview is the first of many as Mark is pleased to announce that…
More and less: Designing for high-stakes decisions
The Vodafone journey
International Journal of Design launched
The Collaborative State
Tony Blair on user needs
France caters to market for the most simple of computers [International Herald Tribune]
I just wrote on Core77 how French Internet service provider, Neuf Cegetel, has taken inspiration from the legendary Minitel to develop the Easyneuf computer based on a similar low-cost model, aimed at people who are unable or unwilling to buy…