Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Schulze & Webb are working with Chris Heathcote of Nokia’s Insight Foresight Group to develop experimental prototypes to explore personalisation in mobile phones. This project blog discusses their work. There are three overlapping strands in the project: craft, hacking and…
Changes brought about by the internet will be dwarfed by those prompted by the networking of everyday objects, says a UN report. The study looks at how the use of electronic tags and sensors could create an “internet of things”.…
In a half hour audio interview on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Neil Gershenfeld of MIT says a revolution is on the horizon for manufacturing — that existing technologies and tools can bring capabilities once only held by huge factories…
Business Week just published an interview by Liz Danzico (AIGA) with author Peter Morville on his new book Ambient Findability and on what it means to be able to find anything from anywhere at anytime, thanks to ubiquitous computing and…
Chris Luebkeman, director for global foresight and innovation at the innovative top engineering firm Arup, talks in a series of short videos about foresight and innovation. “Foresight is not crystal-ball gazing, it is not about predicting trends. Instead, foresight helps…
We just finished the Italian version of the website of Experientia, the new experience design company that I am a partner of. Any comments from our Italian readers are more than welcome.
The six-story Calit2 laboratory, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean, is designed for 900 faculty and student researchers. Two separate wings extend from the main building. On one side is an ultrasterile set of nanotechnology clean rooms designed for making devices…
Motofuture is a (broadband optimised) site where Motorola presents its vision of the future. Through a series of of people-based future scenarios the company introduces its prototypes of products and services. The site was design by Digit and features a…
This week’s column by Joanna Glasner of Wired News includes input from an assortment of experts who share their views on top contenders to be the technologies of tomorrow. Interestingly, Ian Pearson, futurist at British Telecommunications, focuses on simplicity…
Today we launched the website of Experientia, the new experience design company founded by business specialist Pierpaolo Perotto, usability expert Michele Visciola, user experience strategist Jan-Christoph Zoels and communication strategist Mark Vanderbeeken. The site contains plenty of information on who…
The October 2006 issue of “new value by One Design”, the quarterly magazine of Philips Design, looks at design leadership, design as a tool for visualising the future, and senior management visions on the future of design at Philips. Read…
Ezio Manzini, who is a professor at the Milan Polytechnic and one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable design, recently talked about his ideas at the British Design Council. A background paper entitled Enabling solutions, social innovation and design…
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has been presenting audiences with a prediction and a challenge about the free culture movement: Ten Things that Will be Free. Jimmy’s list is inspried by David Hilbert’s address to the International Congress of Mathematicians…
The Nokia Belgium and Nokia Netherlands sites feature a Nokia Concept Lounge that was developed for the Nokia Benelux Design Awards. The site aims at exploring the future of mobile communications and gathers many student ideas to advance the thinking…
Ray Kurzweil, one of the USA’s most acclaimed inventors, has some unusual ideas about how we’ll live in 25 years. Looking ahead 40 years, Kurzweil believes humans will evolve into semi-mechanical beings who can alter their physical appearance at will.…
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In a special issue of Scientific American titled Crossroads for Planet Earth, the magazine looks ahead at the next 50 years, and features reports on the economic, public health, agricultural, demographic, social, environmental, political and energy concerns facing our planet.
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…
How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically…
Next year there will be more than 2 billion mobile phone users in the world. Marko Ahtisaari, Director of Design Strategy at Nokia, outlines seven challenges to our shared mobile future: reach, sometimes off versus always on, hackability, social primitives,…