We all want to take the easy option [The Guardian]
After suffering user fatigue from early experience of mobile applications, it is great to see companies realising that usability is the best way to create a mass market. Read full story
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Design
Rosy outlook for gadgets for elderly [BBC]
The future may lie in devices that care for an aging population, used to living on their own and with money to spend. Often the needs of an older population are at odds with the design of new gadgets. According…
Rosenfeld Media, a new UX publishing house
Louis Rosenfeld, the founder of UXnet and the author of the book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, has founded Rosenfeld Media, a new user experience publishing house. Rosenfeld Media is a publishing house dedicated to developing short,…
Core77 launches Design2.0, a debate series on design, strategy and innovation
Core77, the industrial design site, is launching a brand new debate series called Design2.0: Discussions on Design, Strategy & Innovation. The first panel discussion focuses on current thinking in brand and service innovation and will take place in New York…
Video lecture by Eric Von Hippel
MIT World has posted a one-hour video of a lecture by Eric Von Hippel, Professor of Management and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of “Democratizing Innovation” (which can be…
Job opportunities at Experientia
We have some job opportunities at Experientia, the company that I founded with three other partners some months back. However it is crucial that you are fluent in Italian, and it would help if you are based in or…
Estonians twice as likely to use public e-services than Britons [Usability News]
The UK’s e-government strategy is fragmented and producer driven, says Andrew Lomas, author of “Rewiring Democracy”, a study that compares Estonia’s record in e-government with Britain’s – and finds the bigger country lacking. “Despite a lower level of personal Internet…
An anthropologist at an architecture firm
I have always been convinced that the traditional research approach as applied in architectural practices is conceptually closer to user experience research than that found in most other contexts. Peter Merholz just alerted me to MKThink, an architecture firm which…
Recent Design Council publications
This morning I interviewed Richard Eisermann, Director of Design & Innovation at the UK Design Council, and you will read more about that soon. He pointed me to a number of interesting Design Council publications. They are all available for…
Digital interactive television for older people [BBC]
The University of Dundee’s Department of Applied Computing is looking for people who accept the potential advantages of new technology but whose experience is more pain than pleasure. It wants to explore how fear of change can be reduced by…
Philips design magazine provides vision for simplicity
Philips released today the January issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. The current issue starts with an introductory article by Stefano Marzano, CEO and chief creative director, and then continues with an overview of…
Forrester slams hard to use consumer electronics
Consumer electronics companies will miss out on up to $3.8bn in revenue by 2010 because buyers are not able to use their devices properly, according to a Forrester Research report. Apart from the obvious newsworthiness of this sales message,…
Design and innovation at Davos World Economic Forum [Business Week]
This year’s World Economic Forum features a roster of programs seeking to bring business up to speed on new thinking about innovation. The World Economic Forum, held annually in Davos, Switzerland, is a high-altitude, high-profile gathering of the globe’s business…
Insperiences
Trendwatching has just updated its Sept/Oct 2004 “Insperience” newsletter. “In a consumer society dominated by experiences in the (semi) public domain — often branded, designed, themed and curated to the nines — Insperiences represent consumers’ desire to bring top-level experiences…
Defining user experiences for applications versus information resources on the web
Leo Frishberg argues in UXMatters that “though the process of designing and creating application and information space user experiences for the Web is virtually the same—even if the deliverable design documents may differ—their user experiences are fundamentally and profoundly different.”…
The user experience of a product is everything that’s not human-computer interaction
“The user experience of a product is everything that’s not human-computer interaction. It’s everything that affects how someone interacts with a tool–whether it’s software, hardware, a service, or whatever. To me, this meant that I had to deal with…
Mobile phones are so complex you can’t even send an sms
In a study entitled ‘HandyERGO’ conducted by the technical college in Gelsenkirchen in Germany, almost two thirds of the more than 1,200 subjects failed to send a simple SMS using a strange mobile phone. This vividly illustrates how mobile phone…
When consumers became producers
In reflecting on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Business Week’s Bruce Nussbaum concludes that one trend is clear: “Companies that want to succeed must be in the enabling business, not the product or even the service business.…
RSA website on inclusive design
Inclusive design is about ensuring that environments, products, services and interfaces work for people of all ages and abilities. Many people are interested in this, but there is no ready source of information, methods, tools and examples to help them…
Creativity and design as tools for regional innovation
Here are some links for those interested in the role of creativity and design as tools for innovation, especially in the context of regional development. Creative London: realising the economic potential of London’s creative industries London’s mayor commission on…