Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
For sure Ray Kurzweil (author of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology) and Bruce Sterling (who coined the term “Biot” – an entity which is both object and person – in his book Shaping Things) will enjoy this:…
The increased zeal among copyright holders to clamp down on any hint of piracy by online video sites puts the notion of user-generated content at risk, according to a study from American University’s Center for Social Media, that the New…
A few weeks ago, I published a summary of a talk given by Donghoon Chang, vice president of Samsung’s Mobile User Experience Design Group, at the recent Mobile HCI conference in Singapore. The summary was originally published in Italian on…
User-Centered Design Stories: Real-World UCD Case Studies by Carol Righi and Janice James (Perficient, Inc.) Paperback: 560 pages Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier) Date: April 19, 2007 Intended for both the student and the practitioner, this is the first user-centered design…
The report “User-driven innovation: when the user makes the difference” aims to clarify the awareness and use of user-driven innovation in the Nordic countries. The authors — a group of students from the Norwegian University of Science And Technology (NTNU)…
‘Experience Design in City Tourism‘ is a study by the Nordic Innovation Centre to gain more insight into what and how visitors want to see and experience during their stay and what the tourist industry can do in the long…
From Worldchanging: Sightline Institute’s blog The Daily Score recently noted that people always prefer streetcars and other light rail to buses. They aren’t just being subjective, either–history backs them up. In 2001 the Denver Business Journal wrote of new light…
Bruno Giussani posted his running notes of Jeffrey Huang’s inaugural lesson at EPFL, the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne. “Architecture and design, says my friend Jeffrey Huang (photo), are becoming the interface between physical and virtual lives. And that’s…
Dr. Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are faculty members in the Design Interactions department at London’s Royal College of Art and have gained somewhat of a cult following for their provocative and future-scenario-based design work. As authors of Hertzian Tales…
From an International Herald Tribune article: Nokia used to be just a cellphone maker. Google used to be just an Internet company. Now Nokia wants to be an Internet company and Google, according to rampant speculation among bloggers and technology…
The McKinsey Quarterly has published an article on eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. The authors James M. Manyika, Roger P. Roberts, and Kara L. Sprague have grouped the eight trends –…
Richard Titus, acting head of user experience at the BBC announced yesterday the launch of the new BBC homepage beta: “It was a no-brainer to move to a layout that would be cleaner, more open and more easily readable. There…
By 2010, says Gartner, 20% of global Tier 1 retailers will have some kind of marketing presence in online games and virtual worlds. Gartner predicts that by 2010 20% of Tier I retailers will have a marketing presence in virtual…
Software giant Microsoft unveiled some of its future technology at its fourth annual Innovation Day in Brussels on December 4, reports CNN. “From virtual family organizers to tabletop touch-screens, their vision of the future sees technology move from the traditional…
Demos, the UK think tank for everyday democracy, is starting a project on co-design and public services. “Co-design has become an important tool in the effort to develop better relationships between people and the public services they need and want.…
Interactions Magazine seems to be heading into an exciting direction under its new editors-in-chief Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko. The new byline (“experience – people – technology”) is already a mission statement in itself, especially since the magazine is published…
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…
Paul Lamb reflects on the dire state of mobile services in America: In Japan it is not uncommon for people to make everyday purchases using only a cell phones. A variety of secure mobile technologies alowing for easy transfer of…
Steven Bell writes about the implications of the user experience approach in library design. One characteristic of delivering good user experiences is that it typically results in return business. Whatever that experience is, it is something the user wants to…
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels was profiled last week in “The Marker“, Israel’s number one business and technology newspaper and part of the Haaretz media group. Below is the English translation by Saar Shai. CATS, KIDS AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN by Ora…