Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Education guru Sir Ken Robinson talks about the importance of nurturing innovative solutions in the classroom — indeed, in every aspect of modern life. Sir Ken Robinson, now a senior advisor to the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles,…
The UK Design Council published its first RED report: ‘Open Health’, following up on the paper “Health: Co-creating Services” (which was discussed here). Chronic disease and conditions related to an unhealthy lifestyle have reached epidemic proportions and are rising still.…
What everybody in advertising, marketing and media should know about the technologies that are reshaping their business. What’s the effect of an advertising campaign, in a world where every consumer has instant access to all hard data about any given…
The Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Philips today opened the world’s first Ambient Experience Catheterisation Lab (CathLab). The ambient experience design concept aims to improve the workflow of physicians considerably and reduce anxiety of heart patients undergoing catheterisation.…
The European Union is to unveil plans Wednesday for the creation of a rival to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reflecting fears that academic standards are slipping further behind the United States and risk being overtaken by China and India.…
Britain’s historic city of Bath is to host an experiment in advanced wireless computer technology that could provide the blueprint for developing the world’s next generation of mobile phones and lap-tops. Called Cityware, the project will see 30 volunteers using…
The company at the heart of the machine is trying harder to get into the heads of its users. In the latest MRWho, MrWeb’s Michael Kenyon talked to Ken Anderson, Manager of People and Practice Research at Intel and one…
The credit-card giant scored a hit with its online “advergame.” And it’s not alone, as companies try to think of new ways to snag eyeballs There’s a new competition at the Winter Olympics this year — and it involves virtual,…
The British design magazine Design Week reports today that Richard Eisermann, director of design and innovation at the UK Design Council, has left the organisation prematurely to co-found the start-up consultancy Prospect, after two and a half years in the…
This Business Week article by John Hagel and John Seely Brown focuses mainly on an American context, but many of its points could easily be applied to government policies on innovation elsewhere: “In the West, we still confuse invention with…
Bob Jacobson just published a thoughtful reflection in his Total Experience blog on how experience design can help us becoming better prepared in dealing with a bird flu pandemic. “How we experience a potential crisis, a condition that by definition…
Features don’t matter any more. Welcome to the Age of User Experience. As computing and digital devices move more and more into the consumer space, features and functionalities will increasingly take the back seat as motivators for technology adoption: As…
The high-tech tracking of people’s preferences puts firms in touch with tastes. Over the past decade, e-commerce has taken a cue from the notion that friends give the best recommendations. Personalized suggestions have become more commonplace as various forms of…
in/situm, a qualitative research and user-centred consulting firm with offices in Mexico, Brazil and USA, published a short report summarising those contributions and discussions at the Davos World Economic Forum 2006 dealing with design and innovation strategy. Download report (pdf,…
The Hong Kong School of Design MDes programme positions product and interaction design education between cultural identity, local relevance and global competitiveness. “The aim of the Master of Design programme is to equip students with knowledge in design at a…
International professional development and training for professionals working in management and design. The Zollverein School of Management and Design is the only research and educational institute of its kind in Europe. The school was founded in 2004 and its first…
The UK Design Council provides some interesting case studies of what creativity and innovation can do to public procurement and regional and local authorities. Borough of Tower Hamlets – Idea Store Libraries in the London borough of Tower Hamlets were…
Design for Democracy increases civic participation by making the experience clearer, more understandable, easier to accomplish and more trustworthy. Design and social research professionals collaborate to enable compelling, efficient and trust-building experiences between government and the governed. On a nonprofit…
The Winter 2006 issue of the magazine of the Rotman School of Management is devoted to healthcare and features a four page article by IDEO’s Peter Coughlin and Ilya Prokopoff. The article, entitled “Managing Change, By Design”, discusses three design…
Chronic disease and conditions related to an unhealthy lifestyle have reached epidemic proportions and are rising still. This presents a momentous challenge for our current healthcare system. Looking at the problem from a design perspective shows that there are many…