Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Prototype
Book review: Paper Prototyping
Experience things before they exist [The Economist]
Clothes make a statement electronically [Christian Science Monitor]
Microsoft updates “Tech Tomorrowland” [PC Magazine]
Mobile computing in high-end retail
As mobile computing becomes increasingly popular in the fashion retail industry, challenges emerge pertaining to usability, system tailoring, and enhancing the manager-client user experience. These issues were addressed at LA Promotion (a facility where selected clients can acquire products three…
Mobile Essentials: Nokia field study and concepting
Nokia Sensor: from research to product
Mayo Clinic’s SPARC lab gets physicians to think like designers
Nokia online magazine on music and mobility
Philips Next Simplicity Event
The latest from GAIN, AIGA’s Journal of Business and Design
Whirlpool’s in.home project
Smart Cities 2020 [Metropolis Magazine]
Philips shows product concepts designed with users [Reuters]
What you’ll wear in 10 years [Wired Magazine | Forbes]
Sun making user interaction intuitive through SPOT sensors [San Jose Mercury News]
What if you could transfer the address book from your old cell phone to a new one by tilting the old phone like a pitcher and wirelessly pouring hundreds of numbers into the new phone — instead of punching in…
Media Lab director on confronting social problems and user-driven innovation [Christian Science Monitor]
A long article in the Christian Science Monitor reflects on the new directions for the MIT Media Lab, including how it will relate with its sponsors. Director Frank Moss also speaks about confronting social problems and user-driven innovation. Moss wants…
User-led innovation projects at BBC
In her Outside Innovation blog, best-selling author and management consultant Patty Seybold engages MIT professor Eric von Hippel (author of Democratizing Innovation) in a lively debate about lead users and lead customers. In a response Matt Locke, Head of Creative…
Open Health, a UK Design Council report on creating new healthcare systems
The UK Design Council published its first RED report: ‘Open Health’, following up on the paper “Health: Co-creating Services” (which was discussed here). Chronic disease and conditions related to an unhealthy lifestyle have reached epidemic proportions and are rising still.…