Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The (UK) Times reports on the successful networking site for tweens. The features of Club Penguin, one of the most successful virtual worlds aimed specifically at children, may defy logic – and gravity – but they represent the new frontier…
Earlier this week, Linden Lab, creator of the well-known virtual world Second Life, announced a new CEO: Mark Kingdon, currently CEO of digital marketing firm Organic. He will be taking over in mid-May. Technology Review assistant editor Erica Naone spoke…
Rick Poynor, a writer and critic based in London specializing in visual culture, wrote a provocative essay (published in I.D. Magazine), tackling contemporary indulgence with design thinking and innovation: Design is now so important, it seems, that designers can no…
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…
The German government just announced a high level initiative for universal and transgenerational design to archive world leadership in the production of innovative products for the elderly including innovation strategies, product and service development, design school projects, and a universal…
IBM press release: At the 10th anniversary commemoration of IBM’s India Research Lab, the company this week unveiled a new initiative to bring even more features and functions to mobile devices as they continue to rival the PC as the…
Knowledge@Wharton has published an article on the blurring boundary between consumer and corporate technologies. Apple CEO Steve Jobs says the iPhone’s latest software tweaks due in June will make the device more palatable to corporate America. Oracle on March 11…
Mark Ury contacted me the other day. He is the chief experience architect for Blast Radius and has a very good blog, entitled “The Restless Mind“, that features the kind of “slow” insightful writing that I really enjoy. Take a…
As keynote speaker at the IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool puts his foot in it: Jared Spool, the IA Summit 2008 keynote speaker, posited the idea that UCD was an out-dated methodology that should be retired by the UX community.…
Sohrab Vossoughi, the founder and president of ZIBA Design, argues in an article for Business Week that companies are flourishing when they try to create holistic experiences by emotionally engaging their consumers. “Advances in manufacturing technology and the global reach…
Julian Bleecker has decided to join Nokia’s Design Strategic Projects Studio. Julian and (LIFT conference‘s) Nicolas Nova are the co-founders of the Near Future Laboratory where client work focuses on developing emerging and conceptual design-technology for new interactive experiences. Jan…
The Chipchase hype has hit the New York Times Magazine. Nokia’s user anthropologist Jan Chipchase is becoming very popular. Just a day after the Economist, now one of the world’s top newspapers has published a 6,000 word feature on him,…
The Economist asked Nokia’s “user anthropologist” Jan Chipchase to self-document his nomadic life in Tokyo and Seattle, taking pictures and leaving phone messages. The video is part of The Economist special report on mobility and “digital nomads”. Watch video
On Apr. 9, France Telecom’s Orange mobile, Internet, and TV unit unveiled a service [“Orange Cinéma Séries“], set to be introduced in the fourth quarter of this year, that will let subscribers get premium movies from Warner Brothers and HBO…
The MIT Media Laboratory and Bank of America today announced the creation of the Center for Future Banking, a five-year collaboration to which Bank of America has committed $3-5 million annually. The new research center, which will be located at…
Architecture and design magazine Icon has published a 4 page article on video ethnography in its latest issue. “The video ethnographers’ findings are gold dust to their clients and video ethnography has become one of the fashionable research techniques that…
Kevin Kelly, the founding executive editor of Wired Magazine, has written a long post about making sense of value in a world in which many digital goods are available for free. “The internet is a copy machine. At its most…
The latest David Report bulletin, called “I shop therefore I am”, looks into the world of consumer culture from different point of views; ethical, social, political, economical and humanistic. Shopping has turned into a lifestyle. We consume as leisure and…
Business Week reports on how Indians are using their cell phones as a “one-stop shop” for everything from e-mailing to banking. A growing group of Indian consumers who want more from their phone than just talk time. […] Indians spent…