Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Co-creation
Financial Times editorial on how users are transforming innovation
Assignment Zero: can crowds create fiction, architecture and photography?
Unlocking Innovation – why citizens hold the key to public service reform
From climate change to social care, innovation will be critical to meeting the public service challenges of the future. But traditional approaches to generating new ideas will not be enough. Rather than focusing on processes and pipelines, policymakers and service…
Cameron Sinclair’s Open Architecture Network [Business Week]
Like AdSense, which has given Madison Avenue executives the collective jitters, the Open Architecture Network (OAN) suggests that 2.0’s cocktail of collaborative technologies can have an equally radical influence on business and industry practices. In the case of the OAN,…
A user experience conversation on NextD
Philips Design on experiencing experience design
Business Week on John Thackara’s sustainable design approach and what business is learning from it
Spanish translation of Experientia interview with Anne Kirah
Luis López Toledo, a Chilean industrial designer, has published a Spanish translation of the interview I did last year with Anne Kirah, former senior design anthropologist at Microsoft’s MSN Customer Design Centre, and currently dean of the new 180º Academy…
Improving the lives of those with dementia and their carers through design
CHI 2007 – Can user-centred design be harmful?
Researchers and practitioners meeting at CHI 2007 produced the surprising argument that user-centred design is a bad idea, writes Andy Daerden on Usability News. Instead, a range of alternative approaches were proposed for projects in developing countries such as “community…
Gartner’s interview with Eric von Hippel
Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak
Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches Torino GEODESIGN
Yesterday I went to a press conference by Torino 2008 World Design Capital at the Milan Design Fair which presented TORINO GEODESIGN. TORINO GEODESIGN (described in more detail in this Core77 article) is an international competition which will bring designers…
NESTA call for user-focused solutions to mental health problems
The UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling for innovative project proposals from front-line workers, carers and people with direct experience of mental distress, to tackle some of the key challenges surrounding mental health in…