Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Researcher Bill Buxton started his career as a musician in Toronto, but found his true calling mixing computer science with his passions for music and design. Now at Microsoft Research, the human-computer interaction and computer graphics pioneer will collaborate with…
Travelers are starting to leave behind heavy, dog-eared guidebooks and instead are cramming their much lighter mobile devices with all the necessary tips they’ll need to discover new parts of the world. Airlines, tour operators, entrepreneurs and even old-fashioned travel…
Philips unveils the Entertaible – a 21st century tabletop gaming platform that marries the best of electronic and traditional board games in a natural and simple way. Sitting comfortably around the game table, people can enjoy both the shared experience…
Looking to generate new ideas about the future of play, Mattel invited the Interaction Design Institute to present concepts during its company-wide Play Experiences for the Next Generation workshop. Children discover the world through play. Playing shapes human mental and…
The credit-card giant scored a hit with its online “advergame.” And it’s not alone, as companies try to think of new ways to snag eyeballs There’s a new competition at the Winter Olympics this year — and it involves virtual,…
The British design magazine Design Week reports today that Richard Eisermann, director of design and innovation at the UK Design Council, has left the organisation prematurely to co-found the start-up consultancy Prospect, after two and a half years in the…
More than ever, people are getting on the Internet to hang out or just blow off some time, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said Wednesday. Some 40 million Americans said they go online just for…
The Persona Lifecycle, First Edition : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design The Persona Lifecycle (Amazon – Elsevier) addresses the “how” of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe…
Bob Jacobson just published a thoughtful reflection in his Total Experience blog on how experience design can help us becoming better prepared in dealing with a bird flu pandemic. “How we experience a potential crisis, a condition that by definition…
Features don’t matter any more. Welcome to the Age of User Experience. As computing and digital devices move more and more into the consumer space, features and functionalities will increasingly take the back seat as motivators for technology adoption: As…
The high-tech tracking of people’s preferences puts firms in touch with tastes. Over the past decade, e-commerce has taken a cue from the notion that friends give the best recommendations. Personalized suggestions have become more commonplace as various forms of…
in/situm, a qualitative research and user-centred consulting firm with offices in Mexico, Brazil and USA, published a short report summarising those contributions and discussions at the Davos World Economic Forum 2006 dealing with design and innovation strategy. Download report (pdf,…
Developing Leaders for Innovation is the name of a new minisite of the Chicago-based Institute of Design, with many examples of their work. The site is particularly interesting because it describes some user experience design tools and processes, such as…
The Olympics have barely started, but Torino is already looking ahead to its next venture: in 2008 it will become the first World Design Capital. At a prestigious and well-attended press conference today, an illustrous panel, consisting of Sergio Chiamparino,…
The Hong Kong School of Design MDes programme positions product and interaction design education between cultural identity, local relevance and global competitiveness. “The aim of the Master of Design programme is to equip students with knowledge in design at a…
Dan Saffer, an interaction designer at Adaptive Path and the author of the upcoming book “Designing for interaction” just published an interview with Marc Rettig. Marc Rettig is a designer, educator, and researcher, as well as founder and principal of…
Beacon Hill Village is an innovative nonprofit organisation created by and for local residents determined to grow old in familiar surroundings, and to make that possible for others. Community-based models for aging in place designed by the people who use…
LocaModa is a company that creates proprietary interactive networks that extend the power of the web to the steet helping consumers to opt-in and connect to brands. The have launched two services: StreetSurfer and StreetMessenger. StreetSurfer is a mobile-enabled interactive…
International professional development and training for professionals working in management and design. The Zollverein School of Management and Design is the only research and educational institute of its kind in Europe. The school was founded in 2004 and its first…
In a long story on the Design Council website, Peter Davies, chief executive of Pera International, reflects on the implications of emerging technologies and the pace of technological change for design and design professionals. “By tracking and understanding today’s emerging…