Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Europe
Swisscom study on how we use communication means [Business Week]
Planning Portal – enabling transformational government
Planning Portal is not only a successful example of technology enablement in service delivery but could prove to be a tremendous asset for local authorities in their quest to develop and deliver citizen centric services, says eGov monitor. Just under…
C-Mine, creativity as a tool to transform a former Belgian mining area
Putting People First official blogger of the European Market Research Event 2006
Digital diversity – the end game?
David Gyimah, a video journalist and the director of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC), has written a thought-provoking article on the future of diversity in the rapidly developing world of the net and connected mobile devices. “If the net…
The new simplicity at Philips [Business Week]
Experientia talk: “Innovation in Museum Design” by Arch. Stephen Rustow
New European interaction design institute
Britons ‘dependent on mobile use’ [BBC]
Kitchen cabinet: new ideas for connecting people and politicians
Real Time Rome: MIT reveals Rome’s live traffic info via mobile phones
Report: The next step in brain evolution [Sunday Times]
Negative user experience of World Cup on mobile phones [MEX]
Emphasis on user needs is key in European innovation strategy
Snapshots from the future
Going online for health [International Herald Tribune]
The costs of health care have gradually been passed along to the end user; more and more, the information needed to manage our health is within easy reach as well, on the Internet. The European Union, for instance, last month…
More information on Dott, the UK regional design initiative
Dott is a ten year programme of design innovation, initiated by the Design Council, that will take place every two years in a different region or nation across the UK. The programme encourages the innovative use of design as contribution…
Mature users seek uncluttered mobiles, claims research
Rachel Jones, founder of the UK user-centred design company Instrata, writes in Usability News about new research by her company which “set out to discover what consumers in the UK and other European countries aged 30 and upwards really want”…
Older people ‘missing out’ online [BBC]
Older people are missing out on critical services because they do not use the internet, a report says. Just 28% of people over the age of 65 have home internet access, compared to a UK average of 57% of households.…