Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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User Experience 2.0: Any User, Any Time, Any Channel
Nokia study reveals consumer demand for digital convergence
Mobile user interfaces – it’s time for a new paradigm
Innovation through design thinking
Anthropologists help IT focus on how employees really work [Computer World]
Book review: Paper Prototyping
Can collaboration help redefine usability?
“Imagine if [you] could go to a web site that served as a single point of entry to a rich, ever-evolving knowledge base reflecting the current state of the [usability] field,” ponders Charles B. Kreitzberg in the third issue of…
UK Design Council launches Design Factfinder to demonstrate the value of design for business
RFID: Frequency, standards, adoption and innovation
Why “humane” might be a better word than “usable”
Experience things before they exist [The Economist]
Nokia design director describes second stage of mobile communications
This afternoon Nokia’s Design Director Marko Ahtisaari talked about “Mobile 2.0: Social Renaissance†at Reboot 8.0 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In his talk, which is summarised by Nicolas Nova on Pasta & Vinegar, Ahtisaari described the second stage of mobile communication.…
Latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine devoted to usability in Pacific Rim
The latest issue of User Experience (UX) Magazine, published by the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA), is devoted to “usability around the Pacific Rim”. Zhengjie Liu writes about usability and user-centered design practice in China, Cindy Lu discusses the opportunities for…
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…
Ethnographic study of robotic products in the home
International Herald Tribune to carry stories written by members of the public
The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public, writes The Guardian. A deal with a South Korean news website, OhmyNews International, could see so-called “citizen…
B2B sites have far worse user experience than consumer sites [Forbes Magazine]
The rise of crowdsourcing [Wired Magazine]
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Just as distributed computing projects like…