Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Paul Lamb reflects on the dire state of mobile services in America: In Japan it is not uncommon for people to make everyday purchases using only a cell phones. A variety of secure mobile technologies alowing for easy transfer of…
Newsweek reports on how mobile banking in India saves the government and banks money and reduces fraud that plagues the public-distribution system. Mobile phones are making life better for people in remote, underserved areas of India. They no longer have…
Dott 07 was a year of community design projects in North East England that explored what life in a sustainable region could be like – and how design can help us get there. It is called a manual (rather than…
Changing the change. Design Visions, Proposals and Tools is an international conference, chaired by Ezio Manzini (blog) of the Politecnico di Milano, on the role and results of design research in the transition towards sustainability. The conference will be held…
Many mobile service providers are failing to capitalise on potentially lucrative corporate contracts because they don’t focus enough on client’s business needs, according to Gartner. Service providers that don’t update their sales strategies to provide tailored solutions to businesses risk…
The UK Design Council sponsored conference InterSections 07 brought together 34 leading thinkers in design to consider how design is evolving and how this is affecting its relationships with other fields. The conference, held in NewcastleGateshead in October 2007, asked…
Hilary Cottam, UK Designer of the Year 2005 and former director of RED [archive site], the meanwhile closed innovation unit of the UK Design Council, is now one of the founding partners of Participle, a new social enterprise designing the…
House of Fraser, the UK designer clothing retailer, has recently launched their first e-commerce site. Paul Rouke has posted a long user experience review “looking at how persuasion architecture has been adopted, key browsing functionality provided and the overall shopping…
Business Week published a special report on design schools which contain a few stories that are quite relevant to what is being dealt with in this blog: The cross-discipline design imperative In a new, multi-skill approach, traditional design tactics are…
Mobi Ad Network has published an interview with Blyk’s Marko Ahtisaari where he talks about the design of the service, user testing, targeting and personalisation. Blyk – the first completely ad-supported MVNO – launched this week in the UK market.…
User-centered Design & Innovation is the sub-theme of INDEX: 2007, a series of events currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is thoroughly examined during the Copenhagen Prelude Conference, the INDEX:|Aiga Aspen Design Summit and INDEX: SUMMER CAMP, as…
Jeannie Choe reports on Core77 how Stanford University’s Design School and School of Medicine teamed up to create Respira, an extremely affordable device for better asthma care. “In order for asthma inhalers to perform effectively, the discharged medicine must be…