Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
As an experiment, we created two new Facebook groups today: Interaction Design Institute Ivrea This group is open to all who ever worked, studied, consulted or visited Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and liked what happened there. It complements an existing…
If you are interested in bottom-up innovation within emerging markets using mobile phones, the recent MobileActive08 conference (more here) in Johannesburg, South Africa generated a wealth of materials. Below are some videos: Mobiles and news gathering at Al Jazeera Safdar…
McGraw-Hill is pitching me books and now and then I request a copy because the subject matter interests me greatly. Don Tapscott’s “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World” is such a book. It explains how…
Ethan Zuckerman, a researcher on the impact of information technology in developing nations, reports on his blog on a recent panel discussion, organised by the Open Society Institute, on new media in authoritarian societies. The discussion started from the premise…
The current issue of Vodafone’s Receiver magazine — on space and location — is one of the best yet. Every week the editors invite another thoughtful thinker to contribute an essay on the topic, and this week the honour goes…
The Denmark-based Center for Sustainable Innovation (blog) is embarking on a new combined research and consultancy project about People Centred Innovation with Base of the Pyramid. The project, which is funded by the Danish Network for Research Based Userdriven Innovation…
Alcatel-Lucent’s Worldwide Lab is an innovative primary research program focused on soliciting the end-user experiences and preferences from the highly coveted teen and young adult market. Lab Members are made up of users from around the world and range in…
A three-year research project that explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives has just published its report. “Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” is a collaborative project funded by the…
The Washington Post published a long article on how, for every move, mood and bodily function, there’s a website to help you keep track. “Self-disclosure has been redefined online. In Web 2.0, it’s led to blogs and Tweets, Facebook and…
Hilary Cottam is the 2005 UK Designer of the Year and former director of RED [archive site], the meanwhile closed innovation unit of the UK Design Council. I interviewed her last year for Torino World Design Capital site. And she…
MobileActive.org has just released its newest resource, A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media. “In this report we explore the dynamics of the role of mobile phones in enhancing access to and creating information and citizen-produced…
The Nordic Innovation Centre recently published a report on user-driven innovation in the Nordic region. The 137 page report describes in detail what user-driven innovation actually is, outlines the current state of affairs in each of the five countries (Denmark,…
Nokia Open Studios are a design research method for engaging communities in shanty towns. According to Nokia’s senior design manager Younghee Jung, they were set up as a community design competition with the theme of ‘design your ideal mobile phone’,…
The latest report by UK education innovator Futurelab introduces to the concept of social justice and practices of user-centred design in learning and education, and looks at how theories for changing the world marry up with methods to implement these…
CNN reports on how Donald Norman wants designers to be more inclusive: The future of design could see the divide between able-bodied and disabled people vanish. Don Norman , design Professor at Northwestern University in Illinois, and the author of…
The latest publication of the UK think tank Demos looks at the future of social networks and the civil implications they are bringing about: Humans are social animals, spinning intricate webs of relationships with friends, colleagues, neighbours and enemies. These…
A long article in US News & World Report describes the current popularity of mass customization: “While retailers have long made money by selling multiple copies of the same pair of pants or mass-produced sneakers, we’re on the verge of…
Teemu Arina, who will speak at the upcoming Mobile Monday event in Amsterdam, has put a lengthy essay on his blog on the topic “how mobile is changing our society.” “I have a feeling that the question we pose today…
Jeff Parks of Boxes and Arrows just posted a lot of material from the recent IDEA Conference (Chicago, 7-9 October), including a 41 slide presentation (pdf) by Aradhana Goel, the service design strategist at IDEO: When we look through the…
Mobile Revolutions is a great blog about mobile phones, youth and social change by Lisa Campbell, that I discovered via Mobile Active. What’s more, she has actually taken the time to write a lengthy, seriously researched and in-depth paper to…