Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Business Week interviews Nokia’s Jan Chipchase
NESTA launches £20m initiative to stimulate social innovation
Qualitative research leads to new bicycle “for fun”
When Japanese bike part manufacturer Shimano set out to make a bicycle aimed at America’s dwindling group of casual bikers, they enlisted the help of design consultancy IDEO, and embarked on a qualitative research and design process that eventually lead…
Next step for games: social networking [San Jose Mercury News]
People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers [International Herald Tribune]
About a year and a half ago I wrote about Zopa, a P2P banking service in the UK, and therefore a potentially disruptive innovation in the financial services sector. The International Herald Tribune has meanwhile discovered it as well: A…
Social networking’s next phase [The New York Times]
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
Billing itself as a nonprofit venture capital firm, the Acumen Fund uses the principles of design to solve the problems of the poor. Just as the Procter & Gambles and Motorolas of the corporate world conduct extensive ethnographic research on…
GE’s user-friendly healthcare concepts for Africa [Business Week]
GE Healthcare sells $15 billion a year worth of big X-ray machines, CAT scans, and ultrasound testing equipment. The healthcare division of General Electric (GE ) usually differentiates its products by getting better and faster readings from its instruments—”feeds and…
International Herald Tribune on user interface design
KPMG on how digital media are affecting work, play and relationships across Europe
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 [BBC]
Business Week on user-driven innovation
Ethnographic research informs Intel’s Mobile Clinical Assistant
New network for user-driven innovation in Denmark
A network of companies, designers, researchers and organisations are joining forces to write a script covering user-driven innovation. The purpose is that in the future, other players may utilise the pilot project’s experiences, writes Denmark’s daily business paper Børsen (and…