Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Italy
Pooptopia, a pet waste removal urban game
Pooptopia, the Interaction-Ivrea graduation project of Aram Saroyan Armstrong, is a pet waste removal service/game that explores the interplay of service design and entertainment. A few days ago Régine Debatty summarised Pooptopia on her own blog we-make-money-not-art as follows: “Pooptopia…
uni.me, a new mobile communication service centred on people’s availability
What if a mobile phone could provide easily glanceable information of people’s availability? To answer that question, Ana Camila Pinho Amorim developed uni.me, a new mobile communication service and Ana’s graduation project at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea. uni.me supports us…
Eldy, an operating system for the elderly
Experientia partner publishes Italian book on web site usability
Creative communities: a bottom-up perspective on welfare and local development
“Value creation through experience” executive course
Grocery checkout, Italian style
DIY checkout or self-scanning has long been called the next big thing in supermarkets, but perhaps because of the hellish line situation, Inferno-familiar Italians were quick to adopt them. Unicoop Firenze was the first Italian retailer to introduce self-scanning in…
What Ikea could teach Alitalia [Business Week]
Design Continuum CEO Gianfranco Zaccai imagines an airline that strives to provide an overwhelmingly positive customer experience I recently visited Boston’s new Ikea store with my two young children. A few days later, I flew to Italy on my usual…
Mattel workshop on play experiences for the next generation
Looking to generate new ideas about the future of play, Mattel invited the Interaction Design Institute to present concepts during its company-wide Play Experiences for the Next Generation workshop. Children discover the world through play. Playing shapes human mental and…
Visa’s virtual Olympic challenge [Business Week]
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,…
Torino 2008 World Design Capital
The Olympics have barely started, but Torino is already looking ahead to its next venture: in 2008 it will become the first World Design Capital. At a prestigious and well-attended press conference today, an illustrous panel, consisting of Sergio Chiamparino,…
Turin on Time, a comprehensive study on how the citizens of Turin use their time
Following a major research project by ISTAT (the Italian National Institute of Statistics) on how time is used in Italian families, the City of Turin commissioned a more specific study focused on the population of the city and its immediate…
Job opportunities at Experientia
We have some job opportunities at Experientia, the company that I founded with three other partners some months back. However it is crucial that you are fluent in Italian, and it would help if you are based in or…
The experience of visiting the Museum of the Mountains
Today I visited Italy’s National Museum of the Mountains (“Museo Nazionale della Montagna”), which is located just a few minutes from my home on a hill overlooking the city of Turin. In fact, the museum re-opened today after an extensive…
Turin World Design Capital in 2008
My hometown Turin (or “Torino” in Italian) has been selected as the 2008 World Design Capital by ICSID, the international council of societies of industrial design. With this nomination, Turin has been given the go-ahead to organise a series of…
Experientia website now also in Italian
We just finished the Italian version of the website of Experientia, the new experience design company that I am a partner of. Any comments from our Italian readers are more than welcome.
First Italian Information Architecture Summit
The first ever Italian Information Architecture Summit will take place on 24 February 2006 in Rome and registration is free. The main force behind this endeavour is the highly dynamic Emanuele Quintarelli, who has already confirmed me in an…
Italy aggressively pursues Wi-Fi and WiMAX
Under new policies and initiatives from its Ministry of Communications, Italy is turning to Wi-Fi and WiMAX to make broadband Internet access more universally available throughout the country. On October 4th, the Minister for Communications, Mario Landolfi, issued a new…
Red Herring interviews Régine Debatty
International woman of blogs Régine Debatty does a balancing act between art and technology. Over the past 18 months, 34-year-old Ms. Debatty has written about robots, digital information security, nanotechnology, technology for women, and about many such intersections of society,…