Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
As a people-centred design company, Experientia frequently uses participatory design methods in its projects. We believe that people are usually the best experts on their own lives, and participatory methods help us to tap into that expertise, to create an…
Method principal Reuben Steiger argues that companies need to start thinking about the holistic relationship between their brands, products, and services. “Crafting an experience requires design that considers these 3 elements of brand, product, and service in order to generate…
As visual analytics architect in SAP’s User Experience team, John Armitage is responsible for creating designs and design concepts for SAP’s analytics products. In this article he talks about new and creative ways of displaying information. “To demonstrate how current…
So how are we doing to augment our senses through digital technologies? Here are some of the products currently on the market that allow people to augment their sensing (and sense-making) through external sensors, with result summaries visualised on smartphones…
The people of the Interaction-Design.org Foundation have given us (and you) preview access to “Socio-Technical Systems Design”, the 24th chapter of the “Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction” A socio-technical system (STS) is a social system operating on a technical base, e.g.…
The Mobile Frontier – A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences By Rachel Hinman Rosenfeld Media June 2012 Publisher’s page | Amazon page Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is…
Barcelona Media, an interdisciplinary center of research and innovation, hosted Lear Center director Marty Kaplan to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration on March 6, 2012. His talk was titled “From Attention to Engagement: The Transformation of the Content Industry.”…
This morning I got an invite in the mail to attend a London design symposium at Brunel University next week (16 June) that will debate the core themes of a new design manifesto, strangely called “Big Potatoes” Although I cannot…
“Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – A Strategic Design Vocabulary” is a short e-book by designer and urbanist Dan Hill in which he argues that in an age of wicked problems, conventional solutions are failing, and a new culture of…
Social scientist Genevieve Bell – who is also the interaction and experience research director at Intel Labs – gave a major talk on what the future of technology looks like, and why middle-aged women may determine that future. The talk,…
Drew Skau, a visualization architect of Visual.ly, explores what will change in data visualisation in the future: – Data visualization will become ubiquitous – The variety of commonly used chart types will increase – Everyone will be able to create…
Kit Eaton explores the coming of age of the emotion-recognition industry. “Because the smartphones we all carry contain sophisticated computing power, cloud computing connections and, increasingly, a front-facing webcam, it’s easy to see that the next generation of advertising will…
“The Computational User Experiences (CUE) group [at Microsoft Research] creates technologies that augment our personal and professional digital lives to enhance individual and collaborative pursuits. We apply expertise in machine learning, visualization, mobile computing, sensors and devices, and quantitative and…
The Wall Street Journal published the umpteenth article on design thinking education. What I keep on missing in these pieces is some reflection on what understanding people actually means: ethnographic and anthropological observation and fast prototyping, combined with some creativity,…
In an open letter to the User Experience Community, Rich Gunther, President of what used to be called Usability Professionals Association (UPA), announces that UPA is no longer. As explained yesterday at the UPA 2012 conference by UPA treasurer Ronnie…
Free services in exchange for personal information. That’s the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. Cory Doctorow argues it could be the worst deal ever. “Far from destroying business, letting users control disclosure would create value. Design an…
Rachel Botsman, founder and chief innovator of the Collaborative Lab (part of the Collaborative Consumption movement) writes that the biggest initial barrier to implementing Collaborative Consumption ideas is typically inertia. Some common questions are: “How do we use technologies to…
Somehow I hadn’t noticed but Interactions Magazine is now (nearly) fully online. As far as I could discover (nothing is explained, sic), only some of the current year’s articles are fully available. Yet all the previous issues (up to 15…
MA thesis by Veronica Bluguermann in collaboration with Nokia, presented as part of the graduation requirements of the Industrial and Strategic Design Programme of Aalto University’s Department of Design. Not so long ago, cell phones were only used just to…
Andrew Keen, a British-American entrepreneur and the author of “The Cult of the Amateur” and “Digital Vertigo”, tells CNN why he believes that Facebook is stealing the innocence of our inner lives, by sabotaging what it really means to be…