Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Below are the 2010 videos of the Human-Computer Interaction Seminar at Stanford University. Check also the full playlist. Redesigning the programming experience (May 28, 2010) Joel Brandt, a PhD candidate in the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group, discusses the roles that…
Some UX developments at Telefónica, the Spanish telecommunications group. Telefónica introduces user experience lab Telefónica’s research and development unit has presented its user experience lab. Via the user experience lab, Telefónica R&D uses the technique of co-creation, involving users in…
Every other month Mobile Monday Amsterdam organises a network event with visionary speakers and practical cases. The most recent one, on 6 September, was devoted to design and had a couple of top-level speakers. See the videos for yourselves. Matt…
A couple of months ago former Nokia ethnographer Tricia Wang gave a talk at the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, CA, and she just posted the slideshow and the abstract on her blog. “My talk today is about how…
The Intel announcements this week, particularly those by CTO Justin Rattner, are quite visionary. But also anthropologist Genevieve Bell’s approach is making waves in the community, such as this article by TechRadar.com. Before the Experience Lab, [Genevieve Bell] was working…
Much coverage on the presentation by Justin Rattner (video), Intel’s CTO at the Intel Developer Forum, where he discussed a future with so-called context-aware computers and mobile devices. (Make sure to see the full video). PC Magazine Rattner describes the…
The Internet may seem like a 21st-century nightmare version of the worst excesses of the marketplace, writes Melinda Blau in the Psychotherapy Networker. But it’s also creating new possibilities for connection and conversation. “Welcome to the Relationship Revolution—a radical shift…
Ethan Zuckerman reports on yesterday’s Berkman Center lunch talk by Eric von Hippel, where he discussed what he called the “Household Sector†innovation. “Eric von Hippel, a long-time affiliate with the Berkman Center, leads off our 2010 season of lunch…
On his Gravity7 blog, Adrian Chan tries to convince startups and social application companies to embark on in-house social interaction design “The problem, as I see it, is that many small startups, and even some larger social media companies and…
Kristina Krause has recently finished a master’s degree in social anthropology at the University of Kent, with a thesis titled: The impact of design ethnography and WordPress | Client – web designer relationships in the nonprofit sector. “The increasing rate…
The Day Zero event of the Intel Developer Forum started off with a presentation by Intel Fellow (and anthropologist) Genevieve Bell who is now also the head of Intel’s Interaction and Experience Research (IXR) division, that is focused on defining…
Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail has published an extensive, three-part interview that Chad Sapieha conducted with Microsoft Principal Researcher (and fellow Canadian) Bill Buxton. “You’ve likely never heard of him, but he has almost certainly had an impact on…
Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The Past, Present, and Future Research article by Melissa R. Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Thomas N. Smyth (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matthew Kam( Carnegie Mellon University) and Andy Dearden (Shefaeld Hallam University) Recent years…
I live in the future & here’s how it works Why your world, work, and brain are being creatively disrupted by Nick Bolton Crown Business, Sept. 2010 304 pages Amazon The New York Times has published an article that was…
Living with Complexity Norman, Donald A MIT Press, October 2010 280 pages Amazon If only today’s technology were simpler! It’s the universal lament, but it’s wrong. We don’t want simplicity. Simple tools are not up to the task. The world…
Four new articles in today’s edition of UXmatters: Juicy stories sell ideas By Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks Storytelling fits into the design process in many places. You probably know that collecting stories is key to user research and ensuring…
The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life, writes Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd in the Technology Review. “Each time Facebook’s privacy settings change or a technology makes personal information available to…
Stowe Boyd went to BlogTalk in Galway, Ireland and came back inspired: sociality, he says, has turned out to be the most interesting thing to emerge from the past decade of the web. “The next generation of operating environments will…
A few days ago sociologist Ms LucÃa Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). “Considering that young people nowadays are natives of…
Should we focus on changing the behaviour of people OR changing the behaviour of devices? That is the key question in article by Ajit Jaokar on his blog Open Gardens. “The many privacy related issues raised by the Web will…