Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Yahoo Inc., the world’s largest Internet media site, had agreed to acquire Del.icio.us, a popular Web site that helps users share links to their favorite Web sites, the site’s founder said on Friday. Joshua Schachter, the founder of Del.icio.us, confirmed…
Mobile Community Design is a frequently updated blog that provides research and design information on mobile communities. It is maintained by Jeff Axup, a Ph.D. student in Information Environments at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and contains some…
The Apple website has, perhaps a bit surprisingly, a rather extensive feature on the design consultancy IDEO on its website. A first article entitled “Bigger than a breadbox design” describes how IDEO uses innovative design methodologies and applies them to…
New McKinsey research reveals how the shift from transactional to tacit interactions requires companies to think differently about how to improve performance—and about their technology investments. Moreover, the rise of tacit occupations opens up the possibility that companies can…
The 2006 Participatory Design Conference will take place in Trento, Italy, July 31 – August 5, 2006. The conference theme “Expanding Boundaries in Design” focuses attention on the multiple contexts in which design takes place and on an expanding range…
With the help of screen-readers–programs that speak the text on the monitor–and magnifying and contrast-enhancing features, the approximately 260,000 blind and 10 million vision-impaired people in the United States have a way to access the Internet, which has become critical…
Teenagers are using more technology at a younger age to connect with more people than ever before, according to a study of young consumers prepared by Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based market research company. The report, based on a…
About two months ago, I complained in this blog about the fact that i2010, the EU’s website on digital inclusion and participation, was about the opposite of accessibility and inclusivity. I sent the same message to the cabinet of the…
China Daily has an extensive English language report on the Beijing design and innovation meeting “Next Generation Design, Innovation and Creativity for China” (30 November 2005), co-hosted by China Daily and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and apparently a prelude…
A couple of months ago I posted about a very exciting experience design case study by Marc Rettig and MAYA Design on work done for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Maya Design has meanwhile posted a case study synthesis of…
Industry insiders told a gathering of about 150 people at the Digital Living Room conference that consumers have yet to see a need for home networks and that the complexity involved in setting one up scares away potential buyers. According…
Being online, being a Buzzer, is a way of life for millions of young Americans across the country. And increasingly, social networks are their medium. Preeminent among these virtual hangouts is MySpace.com, whose membership has nearly quadrupled since January alone,…
Exasperation with focus groups, while not universal, is growing as companies look for better ways to get inside consumers’ heads, often assisted by new technology and the Internet. Perhaps the most common complaint about focus groups is that consumers…
The industrial design site Core77 just launched a new discussion board forum on design and innovation, moderated by Steve Portigal. The site also hosts a great many other discussion forums, including those on design research and on interaction design. In…
The latest issue of trendwatching.com talks about virtual anthropology. “As consumers around the world pro-actively post, stream if not lead parts of their lives online, you (or your trend team) can now vicariously ‘live’ amongst them, at home, at work,…
Leigh Duncan of Live Path argues in a long post on his blog that user experience is an interface discipline, part of the wider field of customer experience management. It is all a matter of definitions of course, but in…
The UK Design Council launched today Design of the time (DOTT, in short), a £50 million, ten-year initiative to re-design the UK that begins in North East England in 2007. DOTT, which is lead by John Thackara, gives the UK…
Future Perfect is the blog of Jan Chipchase, who works in the User Experience Group at Nokia Research. He defines it as a blog “about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the user research…
Steve Portigal pointed out to me that he just wrote up his own impressions on four user experience related conferences he attended this autumn: – Creative CanUX in Banff in September – About, With, and For (AWF) in Chicago…
A very insightful story by Geraldine Bedell in today’s Observer explores the latest thinking on the role of design as a means to develop solutions to services, business models and social issues, and the controversy this has generated in…