Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The 2007 Bower Award and Prize will be presented to a distinguished scientist in the field of Human-Centered Computing.The Bower Award for Achievements in Science is presented annually by The Franklin Institute to a researcher of any nationality for outstanding…
Karl Long of Customer Experience Strategy reviews shopcomposition.com, a shopping site that sells an extremely eclectic mix of products, it seems like a stylish, urban outfitters for grown ups. The web site is a flash extraviganza that puts boo.com to…
Some years ago, the media office at the Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. saw the potential and possibilities of investing time and effort on children as a novel target group for building relations and international understanding. This was the…
Finnish designer Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (aka The HobbyPrincess) argues that small communities will have to radically change their innovation policy in the near future. This will include the moving from strictly institutional, business-oriented idea of innovation and competence development towards an…
CNET’s Release 1.0 editor in chief Esther Dyson sits down with ZDNet editor in chief Dan Farber to discuss the upcoming PC Forum conference which takes place on March 12-14, 2006 in Carlsbad, California. The theme of the conference…
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be attending the meanwhile sold out LIFT conference next week. If some of the Putting People First readers are going to Geneva as well, do seek him out. Aside from his role in Experientia, Jan-Christoph…
Over the past decade, Korea’s Samsung Electronics has transformed itself from a copycat producer of uninspiring goods into one of the world’s top consumer-electronics brands. Much of that transformation is due to a shift in power at the company from…
“Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it’s about everything,” writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, “Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic.” Sterling offers…
Apparently a must-read if you work on sites with large amounts of information: Designing for the Scent of Information The essentials every designer needs to know about how users navigate through large web sites By Jared M. Spool, Christine Perfetti…
A new look at what makes up accessibility. “Did you know that up to 25% of all visitors on your website have some kind of accessibility problem. Some of your users may be blind, deaf, dyslectic, has learning disabilities or…
The room looks like a typical child’s playtime fantasy, decorated with bright carpet and packed with toys, games, costumes, and an indoor jungle gym. But it is also lined on one side with windows and on the other with a…
While the emerging generation’s deftness with technology is a given, researchers say the most potent byproduct may be the feedback factor, which only accelerates the cycles of what’s hot and what’s over. “We think that the single largest differentiator…
The ID-StudioLab of the TU Delft covers research in four areas: designing for the senses, designing and emotion, inspiration engineering and intelligence in products. The challenge of the ID-StudioLab is to shape the conditions for a satisfactory product experience. Traditionally,…
Gotoreport is the regular newsletter of Gotomedia, a San Francisco based strategic consultancy specialised in research, visual design and user experience design. In the January 2006 edition, Leigh Duncan reminds us that as we look forward to Web 2.0…
The Christian Science Monitor caries a highly amusing article by reporter Peter Ford on his quest to obtain some tickets to the Turin Winter Olympics. The process was clearly driven by all kinds of concerns, except usability and user experience.
Following a major research project by ISTAT (the Italian National Institute of Statistics) on how time is used in Italian families, the City of Turin commissioned a more specific study focused on the population of the city and its immediate…
The ever prolific but equally mysterious (who is behind this?) blog Managing Innovative Thinking + Design, published yesterday a series of links to pdf downloads about personas. “Scenarios are a natural element of Persona-based design and development. In Carroll’s…
After suffering user fatigue from early experience of mobile applications, it is great to see companies realising that usability is the best way to create a mass market. Read full story
The future may lie in devices that care for an aging population, used to living on their own and with money to spend. Often the needs of an older population are at odds with the design of new gadgets. According…
MIT World has posted a one-hour video of a lecture by Eric Von Hippel, Professor of Management and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of “Democratizing Innovation” (which can be…