When the consumer is in control [BBC]
The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control. This was the predominant theme at a conference on the future of digital content…
The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control. This was the predominant theme at a conference on the future of digital content…
Biomimetics: Engineers are increasingly taking a leaf out of nature’s book when looking for solutions to design problems. Read full story
In his June Doors of Perception e-mail newsletter, John Thackara comments on the move of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to Milan: “A brutal policy change by its main sponsor, Telecom Italia, has forced Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to move to…
We’re filling up the world with technology and devices, but we’ve lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In…
With competition mounting from low-cost Asia and the fast-moving United States, European businesses are searching for a model to make them viable in an increasingly globalised marketplace. Read full story
Teller, 34, is chief executive of BodyMedia, a company he cofounded six years ago in Pittsburgh. BodyMedia has sold 7,500 armband monitors, 2.9-ounce pods packed with six sensors absorbing physiological data 32 times a second. Wearers dump their data wirelessly…
While we in the real world labor over the small screens of our mobile devices, trying to figure out which menu button gets to our contact list and which key makes an exclamation mark, researchers and sociologists in assorted…
In October 2005, the Interaction Design Institute will leave Ivrea and move to the new premises of Domus Academy in Via Watt in Milan. Read full story
The global economy requires a new way of thinking about how technology, R&D, human resources, and management need to combine. Read full story
Aside from the many (sometimes older) projects, the website showing Philips’ design research projects also contains an interesting movie on foresight (Delphi movie). It seems that the most recent projects are under “Smart Connections”. Go to website
Creative directors, market researchers, brand strategists and experience designers built the AIGA Center for Brand Experience in order to pool their knowledge and skills to educate the business and design communities about building successful and innovative brands. Go to website
An evolving glossary of experience design. Go to website
‘Go out and play’ vs. ‘de-naturing of childhood’ Read full review
Vodafone is launching a back-to-basics mobile phone in response to customer demand for simplicity. Read full story
Working across borders, designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar create a new strain of furniture. Read full story
“So how do you feel about e-mail?” asks Simon Roberts, a social anthropologist. “How has it changed your workload?” This is not what social anthropologists are usually expected to ask: they observe courtship rituals, try to interpret ancient chants,…
Yahoo’s multiple business units, each containing decentralised user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! brand and produce a less usable network of products. This case…
Bruce Mau, the famed designer and collaborator with Frank Gehry, is co-author of Massive Change. His firm, Bruce Mau Design, is based in Toronto. He spoke with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels recently. Read interview
User Experience Magazine is the global publication of the UPA, Usability Professional Association. It comes out three times a year and is written in the easy reading style of Interactions Magazine. Go to website
Larry Azlin, a software engineer in El Cerrito, Calif., considers himself one of the lucky ones. His aging clamshell cellphone, a Motorola V60, seems to work just fine. But once he gives it some thought, it occurs to him…