Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Today Torino World Design Capital published an interview Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently conducted with Bruce Sterling. This time not about spimes, ubiquitous computing or digital fabrication, but about his experience with the city where he lived for the last…
Newsweek claims that the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals: Some of the same entrepreneurs that funded the user-generated revolution are paying professionals to edit and produce online content. In short, the expert is…
I am in Barcelona today to attend the Art Center Global Dialogues: Disruptive Thinking event. The one-day conference is set up as “a series of on-stage conversations with internationally renowned thinkers in many fields whose “disruptive†ideas and actions challenge…
Darren Waters of BBC News recently visited Nokia’s scientists and researchers at their lab in Palo Alto to talk about the future of mobile phones in three, five and eight years, and also beyond that. The first thing he highlighted…
Two of the world’s largest environmental organizations, WWF and IUCN, supported by Nokia, are launching today connect2earth.org for young people to tell the world what they think about the environment. Gland, Switzerland, and Espoo, Finland (IUCN, WWF and Nokia) –…
If executives are going to rely on the wisdom of the masses for business help, it’s probably time the masses get a little compensation for it. That’s the theory behind Kluster, the newest in a lineup of companies using the…
Although usability engineering as a profession has been developed in the western countries for over twenty years, its development in other parts of the world like China remains relatively unknown. The study reported in this paper seeks to compare the…
The International Herald Tribune has published an article on why it has become more important than ever for mobile phone manufacturers to understand the psyche of consumers and why they pick one phone over another. But the solutions seem disparate…
Stephen Wilcox describes in Medical Device Link how ethnographic research, when used correctly, can provide hard data for guiding a device company’s business decisions. The use of ethnographic research has since become much more common in medical device development. However,…
The Design Council published a report from a fact-finding tour to the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland that explored how cross-disciplinary teaching and learning is changing the nature of design. The tour members, which were academics and policy makers and also…
Donald Norman is probably one of the most prominent guests at the upcoming Piemonte Share Festival, curated by Bruce Sterling. Norman will be part of a panel on Saturday afternoon 15 March entitled “Manufacturing Future Designs”. The many conferences of…
“We Think”, the new book by Charles Leadbeater, a UK-based innovation thinker and spokesman for collective creativity, has just been published. Society is based not on mass consumption now but on mass, innovative participation – as is clear in phenomena…
I recently interviewed Prof. Yrjö Sotamaa, President of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Sotamaa is the man behind the initiative to start a new Innovation University in Finland, by bringing together three Finnish top universities: the University of…
Gain, the AIGA journal of business and design, seems to be awake again (after a long slumbering period). The latest contribution, entitled Design Meets Research, is by Debbie Millman and Mike Bainbridge, both of Sterling Brands, one of the leading…
Very interesting article on the BBC news site on how Nokia is transforming itself from a device manufacturer into a software and services company that monetises its software know-how through selling devices, and the strategic role that research plays in…
UXmatters continues to surprise with its thought provoking articles. Bravo for the good work! Applied empathy: a design framework for human needs and desires by Dirk Knemeyer (of Involution Studios and president of UXnet) Part One of this series, Applied…
Former Economist writer, “Long Tail” author and current Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, is pushing another of his disruptive business ideas and preparing the launch of his next book. “Thanks to Gillette, the idea that you can make money by giving…
Mobile services strategist and fellow Belgian Rudy Dewaele asked me to pitch an upcoming innovation conference in Barcelona. Although not directly related to human-centred design, as a major foresight and innovation conference it merits attention: The Art Center Global Dialogues:…
As medical devices transition from hospital to home, device manufacturers must create a positive experience for users, argues Matthew Jordan, director of research and interaction design at Insight Product Development, in a long article in Medical Device Link. Certain macrotrends…
The Boston Globe ponders what happens now that women are wielding increasing influence in a high-tech world that has been largely built and engineered by men, and how that changes the technology itself. No one would make the argument that…