Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Design
Business Week special report on tech toys
Kitchen cabinet: new ideas for connecting people and politicians
Whirlpool tests “smart” washers and dryers
Real Time Rome: MIT reveals Rome’s live traffic info via mobile phones
Don Norman’s case for activity-centred design
In a column written for Interactions Magazine, Donald Norman argues that human-centred designers should not just create clever taxonomies, but also task-onomies. “Many of the design tools used by the Human-Centered Design community lead to well-structured, carefully organized designs, often…
Misunderstood phones costs industry US$4.5 billion [Cellular News]
Human integration and the death of the device
Emotionally aware computer designed to read people’s minds [Business Week]
Measure user experience through engagement, not satisfaction
The future of human-computer interaction [ACM Queue]
Prof. John Canny of the University of California at Berkeley has published a thoughtful and in-depth article on the future of human-computer interaction in the July/August issue of ACM Queue, a publication of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), “the world’s…
Negative user experience of World Cup on mobile phones [MEX]
Emphasis on user needs is key in European innovation strategy
Women and consumer technology [CNET News]
Snapshots from the future
The dance of people in public spaces [The New York Times]
More information on Dott, the UK regional design initiative
Dott is a ten year programme of design innovation, initiated by the Design Council, that will take place every two years in a different region or nation across the UK. The programme encourages the innovative use of design as contribution…
Mature users seek uncluttered mobiles, claims research
Rachel Jones, founder of the UK user-centred design company Instrata, writes in Usability News about new research by her company which “set out to discover what consumers in the UK and other European countries aged 30 and upwards really want”…
Philips Design magazine on involving users in the beginning of an innovation process
Philips just released the July issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. In ‘Making the future more tangible‘, the magazine explores how, by involving stakeholders in the ‘fuzzy front end’ of innovation, Philips can truly…
The science and art of user experience at Google
On Google Video you can find a recent 30 minute Google Tech Talk presentation by Jen Fitzpatrick, engineering director at Google and in charge of Google’s user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis…