Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
USE-ME.GOV (usability-driven open platform for mobile government) is an EU-sponsored research and development project designed to support and encourage access to new e-government services anytime and anywhere through the use of mobile communications and internet technologies. The main goal of…
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,…
The wilderness isn’t what it used to be. Today’s campers come equipped not just with bug spray and burgers, but cell phones, computers, televisions and video games. As electronic gadgets have become more portable, Americans have begun toting them everywhere…
Régine Debatty who runs the very successful cult blog we make money not art just launched no garlic please, a new blog on what’s beautiful or interesting in Europe, starting this week with a special on 100%design London. The blog…
As part of this week’s Index: 2005 events in Copenhagen, Denmark, CPH127 interviewed Joong Yeal Choi, Head of Samsung Design Europe and made it available in video. Mr. Choi has studied industrial design and design management at Seoul National University…
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…
Bus to the train station, train to the city, subway to the office – all with one ticket. With advances in smart card technology and agreements between transport companies, that scenario is becoming a reality. “Being able to use a…
(After two posts about car companies, this is refreshing) Hundreds of towns and cities across Europe begin a week of events designed to persuade people to choose forms of transport other than cars. More than 900 towns and cities in…
Imagine how many problems around the world we can begin to solve if we use our insight into human needs, combine it with all our available knowledge and technology, and make use of our creativity… The INDEX: Views Summit, which…
In a blog that talks about participatory design and how users can contribute to the design of services, we cannot sidestep the ethical issue. Often people’s creativity and cultural contributions are used against their own interests. In a long and…
A video-blogger from Bergen in Norway is aiming to energise a new generation of voters ahead of Norwegian parliamentary elections, and turning his camcorder on politicians. Read full story
The Sacred World Foundation was founded several years ago by Ranjit Makkuni, a visionary and designer and a former leading researcher at Xerox PARC. It is a state of the art research and design think tank, located in New Delhi,…
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…
The Economist has just published a survey of higher education (which can be viewed without subscription) and argues in an editorial that the state of Europe’s higher education is a long-term threat to its competitiveness. Europe’s only chance of preserving…
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…
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…