Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Swisscom’s Vision 2015 highlights the most probable future with respect to developments and usage of ICT. Taking into consideration both technological and societal trends, Swisscom developed a number of storylines covering different aspects of the every-day life in order to…
If any single business theme emerged from the 22 sessions on innovation at Davos, it is that CEOs realize that their current corporate organizations and cultures need to be dramatically changed, and that new people with new skills have to…
During the Fall semester of 2005, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design teamed with MAYA Design to do a long-distance academic collaboration. Students were given the Strategic Plan 2001-2005 of the National Park Service and were asked to develop…
Given the opportunity to start a new media empire from scratch, what would be the ideal approach? Four high-ranking media executives who were in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum last week, shared their visions with Thomas Crampton of…
Experience Matters is the name of a section on the Macromedia website where the company wants to show its customers "what great experiences are, how they deliver better business results and how to create them". "Macromedia is motivated by…
Eventbranche is a Dutch-language blog of Henk-Jan Winkeldermaat where you can view (English-language) videos of recent presentations by Marc William Hansen, chief experience officer at LEGO (on experience co-creation) and by Joe Pine, author of The Experience Economy (on…
The new version of Mindstorms, Lego’s all-time best-selling product, was developed with the help of a Mindstorms User Panel, with the aim of developing a better product but also a tighter, more trusting bond between corporation and customer. A lengthy…
Some years ago, the media office at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. saw the potential and possibilities of investing time and effort on children as a novel target group for building relations and international understanding. This was the…
Finnish designer Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (aka The HobbyPrincess) argues that small communities will have to radically change their innovation policy in the near future. This will include the moving from strictly institutional, business-oriented idea of innovation and competence development towards an…
Business Week reports on the recent Challenges of Design Promotion in Europe conference which drew new attention to areas where European businesses excel — and fall short A recent conference in Paris, called Challenges of Design Promotion in Europe and…
While the emerging generation’s deftness with technology is a given, researchers say the most potent byproduct may be the feedback factor, which only accelerates the cycles of what’s hot and what’s over. “We think that the single largest differentiator…
The ID-StudioLab of the TU Delft covers research in four areas: designing for the senses, designing and emotion, inspiration engineering and intelligence in products. The challenge of the ID-StudioLab is to shape the conditions for a satisfactory product experience. Traditionally,…
DMI, the Design Management Institute, has just released a free pdf download of a Spring 2005 article by Stefano Marzano, CEO of Philips Design, entitled “People as a Source of Breakthrough Innovation”. “The product visions are startling—jackets with cell phones…
Tim Brown, head of IDEO, who will be speaking and moderating at the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF), thinks it is precisely the power and ability of design that made the organisers decide to make design central to the conference:…
Adam Richardson, a strategy director at frog design has created a new blog that immediately starts off with a thoughtful piece on managing the user experience performance and understanding the experience/expectation gap. “Developing complex products today – cellphones, digital…
Core77, the industrial design site, is launching a brand new debate series called Design2.0: Discussions on Design, Strategy & Innovation. The first panel discussion focuses on current thinking in brand and service innovation and will take place in New York…
MIT World has posted a one-hour video of a lecture by Eric Von Hippel, Professor of Management and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of “Democratizing Innovation” (which can be…
The UK’s e-government strategy is fragmented and producer driven, says Andrew Lomas, author of “Rewiring Democracy”, a study that compares Estonia’s record in e-government with Britain’s – and finds the bigger country lacking. “Despite a lower level of personal Internet…
This morning I interviewed Richard Eisermann, Director of Design & Innovation at the UK Design Council, and you will read more about that soon. He pointed me to a number of interesting Design Council publications. They are all available for…
Philips released today the January issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. The current issue starts with an introductory article by Stefano Marzano, CEO and chief creative director, and then continues with an overview of…