Category Design
Envisioning the whole digital person [UX Matters]
Excellent feature article by Jonathan Follett in UX Matters: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitised—from the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster,…
Users who know too much [CIO Magazine]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on understanding alternative scenarios for the future
Today is International Slow Day
Donald Norman’s new book: “The Design of Future Things”
Advanced programme of CHI 2007 available
The CHI 2007 organisers have published an “advanced programme” of the conference, which will take place 28 April – 3 May in San Jose, California. Some highlights: Opening plenary: “Reaching for the intuitive” by Bill MoggridgeBill will attempt to show…
Usability to the people
Videos of “Digital, Life, Design” conference online
Uploading innovation, a NESTA event
Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred toy company by involving their users to an…
Young, mobile, but not yet online [The Times]
User research in a different world
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan [AP]
Yuri Kageyama (blog), AP Business writer, reports: Visit Japan’s top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong “Mixi,” and you’ll see prim, organised columns and boxes of stamp-size photos – not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The…