Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Participation
Living a second life [The Economist]
My customer, my co-innovator
Fab Labs deliver innovative solutions to local needs [Christian Science Monitor]
Fab Labs are different than the myriad other nonprofit programs working to introduce technology to disadvantaged communities. The MIT professors who came up with the Fab Lab concept believed that rural villagers in India, sheep herders in Norway, and impoverished…
BBC Radio interview with Howard Rheingold
Greater than the sum of its parts
User-generated content uncovered: power to the people [Digital Bulletin]
Yahoo! teams with Current TV on viewer created content [Techcrunch]
Belgian experience design lab getting off the ground
One of the exciting initiaves within the Belgian C-Mine project is a new Experience Design Lab within the Media & Design Academy, a platform with the double function of integrating and transforming the various disciplines of the academy, and enabling…
Design to the people! [International Herald Tribune]
Library 2.0 [Library Journal]
ThinkCycle: open collaborative design
ThinkCycle is an academic, non-profit initiative, developed and operated by a group of doctoral students at the MIT Media Laboratory, engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture…
Consumer Idealised Design: involving consumers in the product development process
Veni, Vidi, Wiki [Wired News]
In wiki, everyone helps, but where’s the profit? [International Herald Tribune]
The EU’s eUSER project
Turbo-charging e-government
‘Digital natives’ changing office culture and news organisations
The Serious Games Initiativew
Participatory design – and why it’s more than user-centred-design
In a reflective article written as a follow-up to the Participatory Design conference held a few weeks ago in Trento, Italy, Ann Light dissects the difference between participatory design (PD) and user-centred design (UCD). “What is the status of the…