Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Forbes Magazine has a huge special report on the future and wonders why people simply aren’t very good at predicting the future and foresight remains largely blind. The issue is full of articles explaining this lack of foresight capacity, but…
The latest issue of Pictures of the Future, the half-yearly research and innovation magazine of Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, looks at the future, with Epcot style utopian thinking and illustrations straight from the Jetsons (check page 40). Two topics…
Leonard Verhoef recently completed a Ph.D. at the Universiteit of Leiden (The Netherlands) on the reasons why designers cannot understand their users. He has now self-published his dissertation. Why designers can’t understand their users: Developing a systematic approach using cognitive…
Bruno Giussani reports on the press conference announcing the LIFT08 conference programme (backgrounder): The conference LIFT08 will take place for the third time in Geneva, Switzerland, on 6-8 February 2008. The main structure of the programme has been presented tonight…
Business Week reports on how, with the success of the iPhone, mobile-phone players want to improve menus and other navigation tools on their handsets. “Of all the ways Apple’s iPhone is disrupting the mobile-phone industry, one of the most tangible…
Phil Keys writes in Tech On how Japanese companies drew the attention of participants to their research at “Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC2007),” an event concerning ethnographic research at companies. There were programs related to researches conducted by Fujitsu…
The always very well-informed Internet Actu blog has posted an article by Bruno Marzloff, a sociologist and the driving force behind the Chronos Group, a research lab specialised in mobility and dislocation. Marzloff reflects on the future of our relation…
Amazon is in the process of rolling out a redesigned site with a completely new primary navigation. As it is being tested, only some users get to see the new navigation and UI right now. However, Amazon have a “remodel”…
The Pop!Tech conference is a four day summit that explores the deep forces shaping our collective future, the social impact of new scientific insights and emerging technologies, and the new approaches humanity is taking to address national and global challenges,…
Just when you thought that science parks were based on a paradigm, a new mixed science, technology and business driven initiative – the Creative Conversion Factory in Eindhoven, Netherlands – will launch on 12 November. Note the current focus areas…
Visitors to the Dutch Design Week will be able to see two projects from Philips Design’s ongoing ‘Design Probes‘ programme. These projects – SKIN; Tattoo and Off the Grid; Sustainable Habitat 2020 – take a provocative and stimulating look at…
The American Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine has published a long story on why device companies are increasingly incorporating human factors into their product development processes. “Only a few years ago, human factors was a discipline virtually ignored in…
The Economist has published a good, and critical, overview article on open innovation – the notion of looking for bright ideas outside of an organisation – that also features Professor Eric von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group…
The Copenhagen Prelude Conference inaugurated the alliance between INDEX: and AIGA/Aspen Design Summit on the role of design to improve life for people around the world. During four sessions in two days late August 2007, leading international design and innovation…
India is one of the world’s hottest mobile design locations today. The Hindu Business Line reports on what handset makers think of design in India, and how they track trends and make gadgets that reflect people’s personality and needs. The…
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 upcoming “New trends in Nordic innovation” conference, organised by the Finnish presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic Innovation Centre, will focus on regional and user-driven innovation. In the Nordic region, as in most other regions,…
Today is the closing day of EPIC 2007, the third international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, in Keystone, Colorado, USA. EPIC is the premier international forum bringing together artists, computer scientists, designers, social scientists, marketers, academics and advertisers to discuss…
An anthropological take on wireless broadband technology Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and director of user experience at Intel, gave a lecture this week at Rice University in Houston, Texas, entitled “From the Electrical Fairy to the Magic Box:…