Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Design
People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
New interface at the confessional
Design led futures
New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers [International Herald Tribune]
About a year and a half ago I wrote about Zopa, a P2P banking service in the UK, and therefore a potentially disruptive innovation in the financial services sector. The International Herald Tribune has meanwhile discovered it as well: A…
New USA Today website is all about social networking
Nokia Research on new potentials for car sharing
Mobile communication, a professional social network for mobile society researchers
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
Billing itself as a nonprofit venture capital firm, the Acumen Fund uses the principles of design to solve the problems of the poor. Just as the Procter & Gambles and Motorolas of the corporate world conduct extensive ethnographic research on…
GE’s user-friendly healthcare concepts for Africa [Business Week]
GE Healthcare sells $15 billion a year worth of big X-ray machines, CAT scans, and ultrasound testing equipment. The healthcare division of General Electric (GE ) usually differentiates its products by getting better and faster readings from its instruments—”feeds and…
A participatory conference model at NESTA, London
The face of the $100 laptop [Business Week]
Business Week features a long story on Sugar, the breakthrough graphical user interface on the so-called $100 laptop. User testing only started this February when about 2500 beta test machines were shipped to beta testing countries, an approach that received…
Nathan Shedroff on making meaning [Core77]
International Herald Tribune on user interface design
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 [BBC]
Sacred tech [Business Week]
When I met Ranjit Makkuni now over five years ago at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I became immediately mesmerised by his approach to technology and culture and the work he has been doing. This has only grown since. Makkuni…
Business Week on user-driven innovation
Ethnographic research informs Intel’s Mobile Clinical Assistant
New network for user-driven innovation in Denmark
A network of companies, designers, researchers and organisations are joining forces to write a script covering user-driven innovation. The purpose is that in the future, other players may utilise the pilot project’s experiences, writes Denmark’s daily business paper Børsen (and…