Category Industry sectors
Trendwatching.com on status skills
Philips reveals new design innovations at the 2006 Simplicity Event
Futurelab on learning, social software and games
IDEO’s experiential approach
Healthcare facilities that invite
Living a second life [The Economist]
My customer, my co-innovator
Fab Labs deliver innovative solutions to local needs [Christian Science Monitor]
Fab Labs are different than the myriad other nonprofit programs working to introduce technology to disadvantaged communities. The MIT professors who came up with the Fab Lab concept believed that rural villagers in India, sheep herders in Norway, and impoverished…
Ethnographic research on teens and brands
New usability report on the online travel sector
Design intervention at Philips [Fast Company]
User-generated content uncovered: power to the people [Digital Bulletin]
Jeffrey Veen: designing the complete user experience
Branching out [The New York Times]
Certainly the message you would get if you were to visit the Umpqua branch in Portland’s trendy Pearl District neighborhood seems only vaguely related to the mundane business of certificates of deposit, checking accounts and loans. With free wi-fi access,…