Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The latest report by UK education innovator Futurelab introduces to the concept of social justice and practices of user-centred design in learning and education, and looks at how theories for changing the world marry up with methods to implement these…
The latest publication of the UK think tank Demos looks at the future of social networks and the civil implications they are bringing about: Humans are social animals, spinning intricate webs of relationships with friends, colleagues, neighbours and enemies. These…
Teemu Arina, who will speak at the upcoming Mobile Monday event in Amsterdam, has put a lengthy essay on his blog on the topic “how mobile is changing our society.” “I have a feeling that the question we pose today…
Carphone Warehouse, the British mobile phone retail chain, in conjunction with the London School of Economics, has released its fifth Mobile Life report, a comprehensive study into the technology usage habits of children and adults in the UK and US.…
Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. In a document entitled “EU Communication on Future Networks and the Internet”, the European Commission has outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to…
Experientia’s senior partner Jan-Christoph Zoels was this week at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam, and has been providing regular reports. Here is his third one, covering the Thursday afternoon sessions: Making Love is Eskil Steenberg (Quel Solaar)’s take on a…
Experientia’s senior partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is this week at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam and is sending regular updates. Here is his first one: Create the Future – Collaborative creativity is the guiding theme of Picnic, Amsterdam’s Cross Media Conference,…
The Restaurant of the Future at the University of Wageningen investigates the influences on eating behaviour and carries out studies for the food industry. Ceiling cameras record not only what food you selected, but what you almost selected and how…
In March this year Trendbuero, the consultancy “for social change”, organised its 13th Trend Day. The topic was “Identity Management – Recognition replaces attention”, with speakers such as Richard Florida, Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic, Norbert Bolz (BANG-Design), Hartmut Esslinger of…
In March, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (blog) organised a symposium on service design. Some time ago, I reported that videos of three of the presentations (Bill Hollins, Bill Moggridge, and Jørgen Rosted) were online. Meanwhile you can also…
What is the experience design terminology in other languages? Here are some equivalent expressions dealing with interface design, user experience, experience design, user-centred design and usability in nine European languages (updated version of older post): – Czech: design uživatelskeho rozhranÃ…
The BBC reports that Sir Mick Jagger has taken on a new challenge, as an EU usability consultant: You can’t always get what you want – that was the EU’s message to rock star Sir Mick Jagger at a forum…
Interesting article by Hubert Guillaud of InternetActu.net on understanding non-users (my translation): The French Marsouin research lab just published an interesting study on people who do not use the internet. The study starts off with the various existing typologies to…
Normally Putting People First doesn’t promote conferences, but this is one organised by a good colleague, held at the Belgian university town where I studied, and on a topic that we at Experientia are professionally quite heavily involved with. So…
Ofcom, , the UK communications regulator, today published an initial consultation document assessing how the mobile sector delivers on the needs of UK citizens and consumers and posing questions about the future of competition and regulatory policy. Ofcom’s aims for…
Today we made a little survey of the languages spoken at our office and we came to a quite remarkable seventeen: Arabic, Armenian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kashmiri, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Urdu. This…
The various sessions of the June 2008 b.TWEEN conference, “a unique cross media gathering where interactive ideas are seeded, shared and sold”, are now online. One of them dealt with user centric design: Products designed without clear insight into end-user…
There’s a revolution beginning in the practice of medicine, argues Bob Leckridge, a medical doctor who is working in Scotland. It’s about a shift in power which will change the way doctors work. The traditional doctor-patient relationship is based on…
The upcoming edition of the internationally renowned LIFT conference will take place in Geneva on February 25, 26 and 27, 2009. The LIFT09 conference will explore the new forms of socialization with sessions about the impact of new technologies on…