Category Design
Ars Electronica posts audio of over forty presentations
Interview with David Kelley of IDEO
P2P banking in the UK
This billboard is talking to you
It is not an example of experience design the way I like to understand it, but it is clearly a designed experience. Ogilvy Belgium has launched this week a talking billboard in their campaign for Ford. [Alain Caviggia was commissioned…
Users as designers of public services
Demos, the British think tank for everyday democracy and the publisher of The Greenhouse weblog, organises a series of monthly discussions about innovation and future leadership in education and public services, called Open Secrets. Tellingly, the latest discussion, which was…
BBC Radio 4 discusses anthropology in business
In a 30 minute dicussion with six guests, BBC Radio 4 delves into the topic of anthropologists who no longer observe tribal people out in the jungle, but watch us instead. This approach is meant to give busy executives an…
Brenda Laurel speaking in New York
For our readers in New York: The Parsons Department of Design and Management is having Brenda Laurel speak as part of their Stephan Weiss Memorial Lecture Series in Business Strategy, Negotiation & Innovation. The lecture, titled “Design Research: Informed Creativity”,…
Reflecting on Sony’s integration of user experience and branding
Ian McArthur reflects in the CPH127 blog on Sony’s Qualia product series, and how it is an example of how “user experience†can be extended and elaborated on to integrate seamlessly with branding strategy. The effect in this case, he…
Smart cards make inroads in European transit [International Herald Tribune]
Bus to the train station, train to the city, subway to the office – all with one ticket. With advances in smart card technology and agreements between transport companies, that scenario is becoming a reality. “Being able to use a…
Upcoming conferences
This post is no longer updated. Visit instead this shared calendar of experience design events and conferences.
Next steps for Wi-Fi [International Herald Tribune]
In re-reading an article on the future of Wi-Fi from last week’s Herald Tribune, I was struck by a comment towards the end: “What doesn’t work is the complexity to get onto a Wi-Fi network. The ability to make wireless…
1000 European cities take aim at car use [BBC]
(After two posts about car companies, this is refreshing) Hundreds of towns and cities across Europe begin a week of events designed to persuade people to choose forms of transport other than cars. More than 900 towns and cities in…
PSA Peugeot Citroën on designing for the senses
The current magazine of PSA Peugeot Citroën, the French car manufacturing group, is devoted to a car’s sensory dimensions. Cars appeal to all of our senses. We use our sight, hearing, smell and touch to appraise the shape and colour…
BMW on the elements of the driving experience
In this speech, BMW board member Burkhard Göschel discusses the elements of the driving experience (which he defines as a complex subjective and emotional experience that appeals to all the senses and also responds to external influences), the BMW take…
International conference on future design and innovation in Denmark
Imagine how many problems around the world we can begin to solve if we use our insight into human needs, combine it with all our available knowledge and technology, and make use of our creativity… The INDEX: Views Summit, which…
Donald Norman on Google’s so-called “simplicity”
Is Google simple? No. Google is deceptive. It hides all the complexity by simply showing one search box on the main page. The main difference, is that if you want to do anything else, the other search engines let you…
Exploring good experiences at the Gel 2006 and euroGel 2006 conferences
Mark Hurst of Good Experience contacted me today about the Gel 2006 conference. Gel is a conference and community, exploring good experience in all its forms — in business, art, society, technology, and life. The goal of the conference [which…
Will web users ‘Flock’ to social surfing? [New Scientist]
A “social” web browser has been created to meet the needs of a new generation of web users who want to edit, comment on and share web content, rather than just peruse it. With the underlying capabilities of a basic…
Hacking to improve Lego’s new tool [C|Net]
When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company’s new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: they cheered. Unlike executives at so many corporations, who would…