Bill Buxton on designing for experience
During the recent Interact 2005 conference in Rome, Italy, Bill Buxton spoke about designing for experience.
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World Usability Day on 3 November 2005
The Usability Professional Association (or UPA, of which I am a member) organises on 3 November 2005 its World Usability Day (WUD) with events in 77 cities and 33 countries. The activities revolve around the common theme – “Making it…
First world conference on the future of science
From 21st to 23rd September 2005 the First World Conference on the Future of Science will be held in Venice, Italy. The idea of this conference arises from the awareness that the problems/ questions generated by the enormous scientific and…
Glocalmap.to – social tagging for mobile phones
Glocalmap.to (site currently in Italian only) is a large-scale cultural “social tagging” project that integrates web mapping, thematic tagging and mobile phone messaging, to create a new urban narrative for the city of Turin. It allows citizens and visitors alike…
Torinodigitalworld: funding cooperation to bridge the digital divide
As part of Turin’s Olympic Truce activites, the city’s government bodies are promoting an international meeting on 19-20 September 2005 to discuss cooperation, best practices and financial tools to narrow the “digital divide” as a guarantee for ensuring just and…
Podcast with Régine Debatty of we-make-money-not-art
“La Signora dei Blog!” is the title of Lele Dainesi‘s introduction to his interview with Régine Debatty, author of the cult blog we-make-money-not-art.com (which has been a favourite link on this blog pretty much from its beginning and was recently…
Putting People First author in podcast
Mark Vanderbeeken, the author of the experience design blog Putting People First and a senior partner of the experience design company Experientia, has been interviewed by Lele Dainesi, who is in charge of the Mash-ups in Italy blog and the…
New interaction design association
Alumni and staff of the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (which is now no longer based in Ivrea) have just founded an Interaction Design Association to “promote the interaction design culture, knowledge and experience” and “to create and maintain a network…
Buongiorno acquires Freever
Buongiorno Vitaminic SpA, an Italian multinational and one of the world’s leading groups in the mobile value-added service (VAS) sector, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of a 100 percent stake in Freever, a leading European company in the…
Another Italian blog
After posting a link to Lele Dainesi’s blog yesterday, here is another Italian-language blog. Carmelo Cutuli (see bio) has a blog about “economy, technology, groups and social networking”. I got a hold of him through LinkedIn, where he is…
Mash-ups in Italy
A friend of mine, Lele Dainesi, manages Mash-ups in Italy, a blog on the “rise of cut & paste culture”. It is all in Italian, but insightful if you understand the language. As part of the nicely designed blog, Lele…
Telecom Italia to invest 200 million € in Olivetti, half of which on R&D
Olivetti, one of the most historic names in Italian industry, was on Wednesday relaunched by the Telecom Italia group after several years out of the public eye. Between 2005 and 2007, Telecom Italia will invest 200 million € in Olivetti,…
The book on perplexing Italians [International Herald Tribune]
Being Italian, says the columnist Beppe Severgnini, is a full-time job. “We never forget who we are, and we take pleasure in confounding those who observe us,” he notes. As a matter of fact, Italians are so profoundly perplexing that…
Venice goes mobile with Wi-Fi walking tours [Metropolis Magazine]
A collaboration between the Department of Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Architecture Venice (IUAV), the project uses video-equipped cell phones, PDAs, and location-based technology to deliver multimedia walking tours of lesser-known Venetian neighborhoods.…
Covering Italy
Italy’s urban vision is not what you think.
Milan is the most wired-up city of Europe [ANSA]
The city of Milan is the most wired-up city in Europe, but also Barcelona is very high up in the list, a survey carried out by Milan Chamber of Commerce shows. Read full story
John Thackara: “Interaction Ivrea morphing”
In his June Doors of Perception e-mail newsletter, John Thackara comments on the move of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to Milan: “A brutal policy change by its main sponsor, Telecom Italia, has forced Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to move to…
Made in Europe: Italy seeks renaissance of industry [International Herald Tribune]
Many of the largest European economies are casting about for a blueprint to remain competitive in the 21st century, as the forces of globalisation and technology shift the fault lines of economic power across the globe. Read full story
Europe’s battered tiger [The Economist]
Marco Boglione and the Chinese threat to Italian manufacturing. Read full story
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea moves to Milan
In October 2005, the Interaction Design Institute will leave Ivrea and move to the new premises of Domus Academy in Via Watt in Milan. Read full story