Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
“Imagine if [you] could go to a web site that served as a single point of entry to a rich, ever-evolving knowledge base reflecting the current state of the [usability] field,” ponders Charles B. Kreitzberg in the third issue of…
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…
The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public, writes The Guardian. A deal with a South Korean news website, OhmyNews International, could see so-called “citizen…
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Just as distributed computing projects like…
Jeff Axup writes in his blog Mobile Community Design about ten potential pitfalls in the application of participatory design methods. “Participatory design (PD) is a design framework and related methods which advocate user involvement in design, and a political stance…
With a commitment to conducting a discourse on the social responsibility of the designer and defining the democratic quality of design, the International Design Forum (IFG) Ulm, Germany announces its public call for project proposals addressing the topic of the…
Through Core77, I learned about the thinking of Uday Dandavate, a principal of the participatory design agency Sonic Rim. Dandavate, who is trained as an industrial designer and is from Indian origin, is a thorough believer in the duty of…
The WE Media Global Forum is a conference that brings together “the trailblazers of the connected society – the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists seeking to tap the potential of digital networks connecting people everywhere”, or in short “how…
Open marketing assumes your customers are smarter than you, at every stage of the business process, from product build to post-sale service. "We have embarked on the maiden voyage of the open marketing revolution. From RSS to blogs, from podcasts…