Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
How can a city perform as an open-source real-time system. Although the approach of this project seems to be driven quite a lot by a cultural engineering mindset, there are some interesting people-focused elements in it: In the past decades,…
Charles Leadbeater is an innovation thinker and a spokesman for collective creativity. In Charles Leadbeater’s latest project, We-think, he argues that mass creativity, mass participation and open standards will be the next big thing. The Danish Innovation Lab just had…
The recent 3rd International Living Knowledge conference (3LK) provided a forum where information on community based research, carried out in both community and academic settings, on new forms of partnerships between research and civil society and on new modes of…
User-centered Design & Innovation is the sub-theme of INDEX: 2007, a series of events currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is thoroughly examined during the Copenhagen Prelude Conference, the INDEX:|Aiga Aspen Design Summit and INDEX: SUMMER CAMP, as…
Co-creation is on the agenda when Copenhagen will be the centre of the world’s prominent specialists within creativity and innovation, reports Copenhagen Capacity. The 10th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ECCI X is to convene on 14-17 October 2007.…
In an extended interview, Peter Day of BBC World Service’s Global Business programme talks to Professor Eric Von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology about his revolutionary thinking and what calls the “democratisation…
For some time now I have been following the French innovation blog Internet Actu, not realising that it was part of a bigger initiative called “Fing“. Fing stands for “Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération”, or the the next generation internet foundation,…
Nokia’s new design studio in Bangalore, India, will use co-creation and ethnographic approaches to explore new design ideas for mobile phones targeted at the Indian market. InfoWorld reports: The studio in India is one of four satellite studios that Nokia…
In an article in the Dutch language Voka Tribune (Voka is the professional association of companies in Flanders, Belgium), management guru C.K. Prahalad talks about the importance of co-creating experiences, starting from the Build the Bear example. Since the article…
The German interaction designer Matthias Müller-Prove is the co-lead on the user experience project of OpenOffice.org and has just published an article about his activities. Open source software (OSS) is a paradigm for developing software in a non-proprietary fashion by…