Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Slower is better. That’s just one of many unconventional ideas about creativity that are taking shape inside the restored yellow mansion, on Atlanta’s Peachtree Road, that BrightHouse calls home. The 17-person company, founded in 1995, works with only one client…
Africa is the world’s fastest-growing cellphone market, a boom that has taken the industry by surprise. From 1999 through 2004, the number of mobile subscribers in Africa jumped to 76.8 million, from 7.5 million, an average annual increase of 58…
What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be “flow,” and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it. Read full story
In this publication the Danish Government* presents initiatives within five new strategic target areas designed to create favourable frameworks capable of reinforcing development and growth potential in the culture and experience economy. The five target areas include the sports industry,…
Paul Graham is at it again. Just one random quote, when he is arguing that bloggers working at home are often much more productive than the so-called “professionals”: “The atmosphere of the average workplace is to productivity what flames painted…
On Neopets’ candy-colored, youth-oriented web site, kids create virtual pets and send them cruising the streets of the online land Neopia. They play games, shop, or make artwork for the site’s online galleries, which all sounds like harmless, creative fun.…
To prepare students for an evolving information-based society, architects are designing innovative schools to support new models of teaching and learning. Read full story (Related story: Students at Roy Lee Walker Elementary School don’t just study textbooks to learn about…
In his blog Chris Lawer of The OMC Group just posted a copy of the presentation he gave to the research panel at Cranfield University School of Management. The pdf paper defines the “story of co-creation”, explores his research question,…
This month, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. will release a mobile phone able to slow down speakers’ voice speed. The key targeted users are the elderly, reveals Tech-on. The speed converter technology slows down speakers’ voice speed up to 0.7x, so the…
Design used to be associated purely with aesthetics. Today it has been embraced by business leaders and is advocated for social policy development. Nico Macdonald (blog) investigates these claims. Read text-only version Download laid out version (pdf, 176 kb) (via…
Mobile phones are used in Asia in strikingly innovative ways. In Japan, there have been stories of schoolgirls writing messages on scraps of paper, photographing them with their phones and then e-mailing them to friends. In Korea the third biggest…
Graduate students from top schools in the United States, Europe and Asia, most from master of business administration programs, are vying for internships at India’s biggest private companies. For many, outsourcing companies are the destinations of choice. Read full…
This very interesting Global Watch* mission report (which I just finished reading) summarises the results of an official UK field trip to the US to investigate the impact of people-centred research in the design process. The authors were interested in…
The industrial revolution is over, and the machines have won. But as jobs in factories and offices disappear, there are still opportunities to create new kinds of employment. According to Jeremy Rifkin, the first opportunity lies in what he calls…
In a bid to eventually sell more chips, Intel has set up four new offices in Bangalore, Cairo, Sao Paulo and Shanghai that are staffed with anthropologists and engineers to help design computers with features for emerging markets. The four…
A Booz Allen Hamilton innovation survey, conducted in the late summer and autumn of 2004, asked European executives to rate the importance of various drivers of innovation performance. Top of their list is improved customer understanding or customer insight, whether…
We all hear that successful innovation depends on creating value for customers. Repeatedly, we see that the key to creating value lies in designing meaningful experiences. But what does this jargon really mean? And more important, how does it impact…
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is understood to have made a bid approach to the fast-growing internet phone group, Skype, which may have valued the two-year-old operation at almost $3bn. Read full story
View this nice comparison chart that summarises the difference between the business approach and the design approach to product and service innovation. (via Usability in the News)
A blank sheet of paper can be liberating — and intimidating. where do great new ideas come from? How can you and your company create more of them? We asked 14 creative people to answer those questions. Nike’s Tinker Hatfield…