In three years…
Three years ago we founded Experientia. It has been a very exciting ride since. In three years we worked with some of the best companies in the field and some of the best people too. Here they are in alphabetical…
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Mark Vanderbeeken
Bridging communities via interactions
Richard Anderson reports on a discussion session that Elizabeth Churchill and Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken participated in, held at the recent CHI conference in Florence, Italy, that dealt with the role of interactions magazine in bridging communities – “something essential…
Putting People First is media partner of PICNIC 2008
Experientia/Putting People First has been invited to become a media partner of PICNIC 2008. Set up as a series of events – a top-class conference, seminars and workshops – PICNIC will be held in Amsterdam from 24 to 26 September…
Upcoming book on the “high end”
A few weeks ago we were contacted by Marco Bevolo of Philips Design who was looking for some advance feedback on the book he is writing together with co-authors Stefano Marzano (also Philips Design), Dr. Howard R. Moskowitz and Alex…
Changing the Change conference looks very promising
The three-day Changing the Change conference, which is about the role of design research in sustainable change and scheduled for 10-12 July in Turin, Italy, looks to become very interesting indeed. The list of invited speakers and discussants features Bill…
Reviewing the CHI 2008 conference
A few weeks ago I attended the CHI conference in Florence, Italy. I was only there for a day and a half, and this being my first CHI conference, I am not in a position to give it a solid…
Understanding Users – a workshop in Brussels
Design Flanders and Flanders In Shape organise a one-day conference and intensive training on user-centred design in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels on 22 May. Experientia’s Jan-Christoph Zoels and Mark Vanderbeeken (the author of this blog) are in charge of…
A short interview on identity
The people from the German consultancy Trendbüro published a short interview with Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken on the topic of identity. It is part of their strategy to publicise their forthcoming Trend Day, which has the theme: “Identity Management –…
Art Center College opening up a global debate
The world of design and innovation has greatly changed in the last decade. The challenges are more complex, more intricate, and more systemic, and therefore require an increasingly holistic and multidisciplinary approach, especially in education. Or in the words of…
A conversation about Torino with Bruce Sterling
Today Torino World Design Capital published an interview Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently conducted with Bruce Sterling. This time not about spimes, ubiquitous computing or digital fabrication, but about his experience with the city where he lived for the last…
Is our blog “Putting People First” still of value to you?
Experientia’s blog “Putting People First” has been going for three years now and contains several thousand posts. Lots of things have changed in those three years. The term “experience design” has become mainstream and is sometimes even over-used; industry has…
Our contribution to Core77
As most of you know, Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken also writes for Core77. Here is the list of recently posted contributions, meanwhile 70 items long.
Interview with Hilary Cottam
It took Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken quite some effort to schedule an interview with 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, and…
UXnet launches new site
UXnet, the user experience network, launched its new website this week, with some major improvements. UXnet is a platform organisation that provides tools and resources for the user experience community. It works with a worldwide network of local ambassadors. The…
Simplicity tomorrow
Last week Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken attended the Philips Simplicity Event in London. It was a mixture of a vision presentation, a prototype exhibition, a networking event, and a marketing opportunity. The prototypes on show were conceptual designs for social…
Interview with Jonathan Kestenbaum of NESTA on innovation and design
A few weeks ago Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken interviewed Jonathan Kestenbaum, the CEO of NESTA, the UK Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. The interview, which is now published on the website of Torino 2008 World Design Capital in…
A virtual think tank on regional innovation in Belgium
Turin 2008 on Italian slow design, Irish design innovation and doing good
Second thoughts on Second Life
Recent stories on the Turin 2008 World Design Capital website
A few months ago Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken started doing some writing for the Turin 2008 World Design Capital website, and will continue to do so until the end of 2008. The site has just been refreshed with an interview…