Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Design
The Jan Chipchase controversy: corporate ethnography is “primitive”
The experience store, a store where you don’t buy [International Herald Tribune]
The International Herald Tribune reflects on ‘experience stores’, the latest trend in retailing and claims it is a return to the old department store shopping experience, where shopping was treated as theatre as well. The article claims that Samsung was…
Bruce Nussbaum asks if designers are the enemy of design?
New York Times on interactive mirror in department store
Business Week on the innovation workshops at the Royal College of Arts, London
Usability consulting in Central and Eastern Europe
Business Week interviews Nokia’s Jan Chipchase
NESTA launches £20m initiative to stimulate social innovation
New Songdo City, a living lab on ubiquitous computing in Korea
UNESCO publishes survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies
Qualitative research leads to new bicycle “for fun”
When Japanese bike part manufacturer Shimano set out to make a bicycle aimed at America’s dwindling group of casual bikers, they enlisted the help of design consultancy IDEO, and embarked on a qualitative research and design process that eventually lead…
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Next step for games: social networking [San Jose Mercury News]
Doors of Perception taking on the global food crisis [Business Week]
Diane Brady of Business Week reports on The Doors of Perception conference in Delhi which focuses on applying design thinking to modern challenges in food, water and waste. “John Thackara is doggedly pragmatic. The British design guru likes nothing more…