Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Living Labs Europe – user-driven innovation environments in the information society
A Living Lab is a city area which operates a full-scale urban laboratory and proving ground for inventing, prototyping and marketing new mobile technology applications. A Living Lab includes interactive testing, but is managed as an innovation environment well beyond…
Library 2.0 [Library Journal]
Where to study experience design?
Experience design has become a hot industry theme. Companies are looking to hire experience designers. New consultancies devoted to experience design are being founded nearly every day. Major industry players like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips are increasingly putting the…
Made in Italy at Chinese prices [Spiegel Online]
Spiegel Online just published a fascinating story about how the Chinese are infiltrating the Italian fashion industry, right here in Italy! The backdrop is Prato, a small Italian city of 180,000 with 25,000 Chinese workers and 2,000 Chinese entrepreneurs, who…
EU working towards eco-innovation for a sustainable future
ThinkCycle: open collaborative design
ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative, developed and operated by a group of doctoral students at the MIT Media Laboratory, engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture…
Microsoft designs the school of the future [CNN]
A new report on service innovation
Presentation on how to apply corporate ethnography to web design
In wiki, everyone helps, but where’s the profit? [International Herald Tribune]
Too Much Information, an IBM research project [ACM Queue]
Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm [The Register]
Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we’re now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase. Tim Berners-Lee, the individual credited with inventing the…
The EU’s eUSER project
Strategic planning for the future at Siemens
Microsoft opening major research centre in Turin, Italy?
Two new thematic Experientia blogs
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy, launches today two new thematic blogs: E-Democracy is aimed at public authorities. It gathers information on citizen participation and the use of web 2.0 technologies in the websites of public authorities, public administrations and…