Category Business
Students’ new best friend: ‘MoSoSo’ [Christian Science Monitor]
Developing user-centered tools for strategic business planning
“T-shaped” thought key to innovation [The Korea Times]
Why have Korean companies failed to create such iconic devices as Apple Computer’s iPod or Motorola’s RAZR despite their technological prowess, asks staff reporter Kim Tae-gyu in The Korea Times. “The answer by the LG Economic Research Institute to this…
IBM launches MySpace-like tools for companies [International Herald Tribune]
The user experience practitioner as change agent [UX Matters]
Interaction Design Institute for rent
Experience designers work in the retail industry, says Fast Company
Experience designers are top of the list in Fast Company’s overview of the “10 Hot Jobs for 2007”. We are also positioned as people who work in the retail industry. The list, which has been compiled with trend forecasters, “takes…
Nokia Research on Uganda’s Village Phone initiative
Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research are on a roll. Following a July 2006 field study in Uganda, and previous presentations on shared phone practices and street charging services, they now explored the Village Phone initiative between the…
Nokia presents video scenarios of the future
Governments should focus on connectivity, content and copyright to support user-generated content
World Economic Forum briefing materials
User centered design at Sony
2-year course on design for retail experience at India’s National Institute of Design
“With new malls and retail outlets mushrooming all across [India], thanks to the retail boom, it’s no wonder then that the National Institute of Design (NID) has come up with a unique course called Design for Retail Experience“, writes Kumar…
ThingM: channelling boundless data into specific user experiences
Bruce Tognazzini on the iPhone user experience
Corporate intranets apply Web 2.0 for user benefits, reports Nielsen Norman Group
Intranets typically avoid the over-hyped fads that wash across the Web, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, whose research firm Nielsen Norman Group today announced the winners of its seventh annual intranet design contest. This year, rather than avoid the…
SAP launches new All-in-One version [CIO]
Customer-centered experience design: creating loyalty in an experience economy
The user experience scene in China
Amit Pande, who manages Oracle’s User Experience practice in Bangalore, wrote an interesting post about his impressions of the user experience scene in China. “First, let me start with saying that like many others in the technology & design space,…