Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Storytelling for User Experience – Crafting Stories for Better Design By Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks Rosenfeld Media April 2010 Availability: Paperback + PDF We all tell stories. It’s one of the most natural ways to share information, as old…
A Canadian article about Canada’s most important technology company, Research in Motion (the makers of the Blackberry), is always worth delving into. “RIM captured boardrooms by reinventing business communication. Now it faces a balancing act between keeping those customers and…
The folks at Johnny Holland have published reviews on no less than four UX related books: Beyond the Usability Lab Authors: Bill Albert, Donna Tedesco, Thomas Tullis Publishers: Morgan Kaufman [Companion website – Amazon] User Experience Re-Mastered Authors: Chauncey Wilson…
Flanders InShape, the Flemish/Belgian competence centre for product development and industrial design, is supporting a new research project on the development of a requirements programme for future prison design in Belgium. On 25 March Flanders InShape organised the “Towards a…
Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund [disclaimer: and Experientia client] has launched a new book, After the Crisis, and a report, Finland: Wellsprings for a Vital Future, that shed light on the fundamental change Finland is going through. “For decades, Finland’s…
This week’s Economist contains a special report on television. The leader article presents television as the great survivor, which has coped well with technological change: “It helps that TV is an inherently lazy form of entertainment. The much-repeated prediction that…
Gary Wolf reflects in the upcoming New York Times Magazine on what happens when technology can analyze “every quotidian thing that happened to you today.” “Numbers make problems less resonant emotionally but more tractable intellectually. In science, in business and…
Timo Arnall, the acclaimed interaction designer, alerts us to the fact that Touch project PhD researcher Kjetil Nordby has just published two journal articles on interactions with RFID and NFC. “These articles pull together concepts from ubiquitous computing and HCI,…
Tim Macer of Research reviews Revelation, an online qualitative research environment for depth interviewing, discussions and ethnographic studies. “Online qualitative research does not need to be a pale imitation of conventional face-to-face groups and depths, and it is better not…
The bilingual (Fr/En) research journal CADI of the highly respected design school L’École de design Nantes/Atlantique in the French city of Nantes is a worthwhile treat, as each issue contains four in-depth interviews with professional authorities who worked with their…
The disciplines of interaction design and architecture share a number of common traits—such as a focus on solving problems for people and encouraging people to interact with products and environments in new and exciting ways—and each discipline can learn much…
The latest issue of Interactions Magazine is about the spread of design into new areas, write editor Jon Kolko: “The process of design is spreading into new areas of society and business, and as it does, our work gets more…
In his presentation at this weekend’s Internional Symposium on Online Journalism, Nuno Vargas of the University of Barcelona (Spain) talked about how news and information is graphically presented online. His paper discusses whether the design of online newspapers shows they…
Over the past few decades, researchers have codified many of the patterns that describe why people behave irrationally. As researchers, how can we be on the lookout for these patterns of behavior when we go into the field? As designers,…
What might we gain, asks Adam Greenfield, if we begin to conceive of cities, for some limited purposes anyway, as software under active development? What if we imagined that the citizen-responsiveness system we’ve designed lives in a dense mesh of…
According to the Repubblica newspaper, the head of the Catholic Church has been arguing today for the centrality of the person on the web. We agree, but are surprised that this man who is in charge of an institution with…
Alexa Spence and Nick Pidgeon of Cardiff University write in Environment Magazine that meeting existing and future climate change targets will require rapid social transformations that economics and technology alone cannot induce. We must, they say, also face up to…
Stepan Doubrava and Jakub Franc of ExperienceU (Czech Republic), argues on the Global User Research blog for the proper use of user-centred design principles in eGovernment projects. “eGovernment, or the transfer of government activities to the Internet […] brings with…
The Mobile Behavior blog interviewed Robert Suarez, a senior portfolio lead in the Consumer Experience design (CXd) group at IDEO. With a background in User experience design and human factors research, he has experience working on generative, evaluative, and experiential…
The BBC UX&D team has published a global experience language for the BBC’s digital service: The GVL 3.0 guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile and IPTV recommendations). The design…