Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
HP yesterday announced new technologies, created by researchers in HP Labs India, which are designed to help grow opportunities in rapidly expanding economies. The technologies, which primarily focus on India but also address markets in China, Russia and Brazil, are…
Design for the Base of the Pyramid is an initiative by the IIT Institute of Design “to develop human-centered design strategies and concepts for new products, services and businesses capable of generating sustainable economic improvement in the lives of people…
For the last 10 years, the state of mainstream design in China has approximated the first stage of design in the U.S., writes Patrick Whitney in a Business Week column. Consumers in the emerging mass market are gravitating toward products…
Intel Corporation just launched an innovative PC platform that has been developed exclusively to meet the needs of rural villages and communities in India. Designed as a result of defining locally relevant computing solutions based on Intel technology, the Intel-powered…
Europe is falling behind Asia in terms of education and skills, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and released today by the Lisbon Council. It blames France and Germany which are criticised for…
In a story in Pakistan’s Daily Times, Bill Siu (whom I presume to be an Intel Vice-President), shares some of the insights gained from Intel’s ethnographic research in Asia. The Inside Asia project team, led by Dr Genevieve Bell [which…
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…
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…
Over the past decade, Korea’s Samsung Electronics has transformed itself from a copycat producer of uninspiring goods into one of the world’s top consumer-electronics brands. Much of that transformation is due to a shift in power at the company from…
Innovation consulting firm BrainReactions LLC is now offering six-day “innovation tours” of America for Indian executives, with the first of these tours scheduled to take place in early April. Each Innovation Trip combines a mix of hands-on workshops, meet-and-greets with…
With too few young workers supporting an ageing population, somebody—or something—needs to fill the gap, especially since many of Japan’s young people will be needed in science, business and other creative or knowledge-intensive jobs. Many workers from low-wage countries are…
To be competitive, companies need more than managerial decision-making capabilities; they need their people to be more creative and innovative. Therefore, leading management thinkers, corporations like Procter & Gamble, Nissan and Ford, and B-schools like Stanford’s Graduate School of…
Mike Kuniavsky, author of the book Observing the User Experience, was recently in Japan which inspired him to write a thoughtful reflection on the current value of user reseach, based on his observations there. “The Japanese classic Modernist “supply-driven” model…
Business Week comments on the recent Cox Review of Creativity in Business (see also my previous post) and publishes excerpts of an interview with the author Sir George Cox. According to the magazine, the report’s findings are worrying. “Far from…
Bruce Nussbaum argues that Design in India is beginning to take off, as American companies discover the inexpensive but high-grade work consultancies such as Elephant Design and others, and alerts me to the great Design in India website, where you…
The [just published] Cox Review of Creativity in Business has been eagerly awaited by the design industry. Many creatives in the UK (as in other industrialised countries) fondly believe that while manufacturing and call centres may emigrate to cheaper countries,…
China Daily has an extensive English language report on the Beijing design and innovation meeting “Next Generation Design, Innovation and Creativity for China” (30 November 2005), co-hosted by China Daily and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and apparently a prelude…
China design (cover story) How the mainland is becoming a global center for hot products Motorola’s new mission in China China chief Michael Tatelman on how the handset maker is integrating the country’s consumers and designers into its global strategy…
Usability is an approach to product development that incorporates direct user feedback throughout the development cycle in order to reduce costs and create products and tools that meet user needs. India may have achieved global recognition as an IT…