Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Experientia interviews Anne Kirah, senior design anthropologist at Microsoft
Anne Kirah (bio) is senior design anthropologist at Microsoft’s MSN Customer Design Centre. In this interview, she talks on the importance of taking off your blinders and focusing on the real lives of real people. She discusses her work at…
Making the case for ease, elegance and endurance
Experientia shows gesture-based interface at international art fair
In London next week
Bad usability calendar
The People will be heard: Interactive technology in public spaces
Digital utopia
The Guardian magazine devoted to Web 2.0
Weekend, the colour magazine of the British newspaper The Guardian, is devoted to web 2.0. It includes a lead feature by award-winning novelist John Lanchester, which doesn’t contain a lot of new insights, but provides a good overview of the…
Gannett to crowdsource news [Wired News]
Book: The Cell Phone – An Anthropology of Communication
“Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This…
Waking up to a surveillance society
Philips Research magazine provides deeper look at simplicity commitment
User-centred design at the Young Tate
Tim Berners-Lee launches research project on social implications of web’s development
According to the BBC, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Wikipedia | blog) wants to set up a research project to study the social implications of the web’s development. “The changes experienced to date because of the internet are just the start of…