Category Experientia
Mattel workshop on play experiences for the next generation
Looking to generate new ideas about the future of play, Mattel invited the Interaction Design Institute to present concepts during its company-wide Play Experiences for the Next Generation workshop. Children discover the world through play. Playing shapes human mental and…
Experientia attending LIFT conference
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be attending the meanwhile sold out LIFT conference next week. If some of the Putting People First readers are going to Geneva as well, do seek him out. Aside from his role in Experientia, Jan-Christoph…
“Experientia interviews…”: a new interview series on user experience and innovation
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy (that is also responsible for this blog), launches today “Experientia interviews…”, a series of dialogues with leading professionals on the topic of user experience, user-centred design, design strategy and innovation. The inaugural interview is…
Experientia site launch
Today we launched the website of Experientia, the new experience design company founded by business specialist Pierpaolo Perotto, usability expert Michele Visciola, user experience strategist Jan-Christoph Zoels and communication strategist Mark Vanderbeeken. The site contains plenty of information on who…
Experientia participates in UNESCO toys workshop in Armenia
Experientia takes part in an international creativity workshop on “toys for children’s rehabilitation” in Yerevan, Armenia. The symposium, workshop and exhibition, which will take place from 20 November to 3 December, is a joined organisation of Studio-College of the National…
Design experience in public spaces
The Isreali Design Center, Israel’s first museum dedicated to design will open in Holon by 2008. A series of conferences exploring the role of design in society and raising awareness for the forthcoming museum have been planned. The first conference,…
Dubrovnik forum on leadership and responsibility
Today I am leaving for a short trip to Dubrovnik, Croatia, where I will be attending the Dubrovnik Leadership Forum, organised by two top central European business schools, IEDC-Bled School of Management (Slovenia) and ESMT-European School for Management and Technology…
World Usability Day on 3 November 2005
The Usability Professional Association (or UPA, of which I am a member) organises on 3 November 2005 its World Usability Day (WUD) with events in 77 cities and 33 countries. The activities revolve around the common theme – “Making it…
Conference on empathic market sensing involves Experientia
One of the first activities of the newly founded Launch Institute is a conference on empathic market sensing on 20-21 September in Hamburg, Germany. Empathic market sensing builds upon voice-of-the-customer and observational “applied ethnography†techniques to dive deeply into how…
Putting People First author in podcast
Mark Vanderbeeken, the author of the experience design blog Putting People First and a senior partner of the experience design company Experientia, has been interviewed by Lele Dainesi, who is in charge of the Mash-ups in Italy blog and the…
New WWF freshwater site
Over the last few months I have been working at an overhaul of the WWF Freshwater site. It was more of a content and editing job than a technical challenge and I am very pleased with the result. Go to…
New WWF climate change site
Over the last few months I have been working at an overhaul of the WWF Climate Change site. It was more of a content and editing job than a technical challenge and I am very pleased with the result. Go…