The art of work [Fast Company]
What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be “flow,” and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it. 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
Website lets children design, share and order their own Lego sets [Business Week]
Lego released a new version of Lego Factory, a recently launched brand that combines Digital Designer — free software that lets children create their own 3D models — with the ability to let customers to share their personal designs as…
Denmark in the culture and experience economy – 5 new steps
In this publication the Danish Government* presents initiatives within five new strategic target areas designed to create favourable frameworks capable of reinforcing development and growth potential in the culture and experience economy. The five target areas include the sports industry,…
Magical history tour [CIO magazine]
[A number of] museums are busily implementing a variety of forms of ubiquitous (a.k.a. pervasive) computing to assist customers. […] What the museums learn about things such as delivering personalised multimedia content to mobile users, luring visitors to lesser-known exhibits…
Neopets CEO on the future of children’s site [Red Herring]
On Neopets’ candy-colored, youth-oriented web site, kids create virtual pets and send them cruising the streets of the online land Neopia. They play games, shop, or make artwork for the site’s online galleries, which all sounds like harmless, creative fun.…
Design for learning [CNN]
To prepare students for an evolving information-based society, architects are designing innovative schools to support new models of teaching and learning. Read full story (Related story: Students at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School don’t just study textbooks to learn about…
we-make-money-not-art.com ranks in top 75 blogs
Missing from yesterday’s Feeedster’s Top 500, was R´´gine Debatty’s cult blog we-make-money-not-art.com (which has been a favourite link on this blog pretty much from its beginning). Feedster has now rectified the error and not only does we-make-money-not-art.com make the list,…
Overview of experience design companies
This list has been replaced by a shared list on del.icio.us. The tag is xdcompanies.
Designing from the user’s experience [DMI eBulletin]
Peter Jones of Redesign Research has written a viewpoint article on Designing From the User’s Experience for the August 2005 Design Management Institute eBulletin. In the article, he ties the broad the user experience concept to product and user research.…
I’m running late because of my phone [Daily Telegraph]
Mobile phones have made people less organised and more willing to be late when meeting their friends, according to a survey.Nearly one in five people admitted to being unreliable about timekeeping because they had the “safety net” of a mobile.…
Experience diagram [Designing Great Experiences]
A digital diagram by Matt Zellmer shows how the “Experience” a company delivers to its customers (no matter what is sells) differs from “Experience” as a separate offering for which a company charges money. Read full post
Chris Lawer on how firms can co-create knowledge with their customers
In his blog Chris Lawer of The OMC Group just posted a copy of the presentation he gave to the research panel at Cranfield University School of Management. The pdf paper defines the “story of co-creation”, explores his research question,…
Project Fusion: an Adidas/Polar collaboration on sports wearables
Polar Electro, the innovative leader in heart rate monitoring, and adidas, one of the world’s leading sports brands, have formed a partnership that will introduce the world’s first completely integrated training system. Called “Project Fusionâ€, it seamlessly integrates Polar heart…
DoCoMo designs phones for the elderly
This month, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. will release a mobile phone able to slow down speakers’ voice speed. The key targeted users are the elderly, reveals Tech-on. The speed converter technology slows down speakers’ voice speed up to 0.7x, so the…
Blinklist and the human mind
Blinklist, a new social bookmarks manager (still in Beta), makes a lot of claims about functioning the same way that our mind does: “BlinkList is a tool that allows you to create a mental map of the internet of sites…
Overview of experience design blogs
This list has been replaced by two shared lists of del.icio.us, one on experience design blogs and one on mobile experience design blogs. The tags are xdblogs and mxdblogs.
The Work Foundation’s iSociety project
The Work Foundation’s iSociety project is a definitive and independent analysis of the impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on our everyday lives. The UK-based project is especially focused on the ways that information and communications technologies (ICTs) are…
Better by design [RSA Journal]
Design used to be associated purely with aesthetics. Today it has been embraced by business leaders and is advocated for social policy development. Nico Macdonald (blog) investigates these claims. Read text-only version Download laid out version (pdf, 176 kb) (via…
MEX: the mobile user experience conference
MEX, the PMN mobile user experience conference, will take place on 6 and 7 September 2005 in London. The two day conference provides insight into all aspects of the mobile user experience, including technology platforms, design strategy and the commercial…
CKS, a usability and interaction design practice for South-East Asia
CKS (Center for Knowledge Societies) is the first and only usability and interaction design research practice in and for South-East Asia. The company, which is based in Bangalore and New Delhi, affords design driven insight into the contextual use of…