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Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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The EU’s eUSER project
Strategic planning for the future at Siemens
Microsoft opening major research centre in Turin, Italy?
Two new thematic Experientia blogs
Experientia, the international experience design consultancy, launches today two new thematic blogs: E-Democracy is aimed at public authorities. It gathers information on citizen participation and the use of web 2.0 technologies in the websites of public authorities, public administrations and…
Arts Management newsletter on creative industries
Turbo-charging e-government
BBC Wap use flourishing in Africa
Africa, in particular Nigeria, is dominating international mobile phone access to the BBC’s website. According to July’s statistics, 61% of the BBC’s international Wap users came from Nigeria and 19% from South Africa. Africa is the world’s largest-growing mobile phone…
Participatory design – and why it’s more than user-centred-design
In a reflective article written as a follow-up to the Participatory Design conference held a few weeks ago in Trento, Italy, Ann Light dissects the difference between participatory design (PD) and user-centred design (UCD). “What is the status of the…
Get out of that rut and into the shower [The New York Times]
Most UK youth on social networking sites [Financial Times]
The Journey to the Interface: how public service design can connect users to reform
Britain’s digital tribes revealed [BBC]
Children’s Museum of Manhattan emphasises play as foundation of learning [The New York Times]
Mobile internet is still a turn-off [The Register]
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
Couple-surfing to enhance cyber-love [Reuters]
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…