Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category UserResearch
A PC for peasant farmers? China targets digital divide.
The Christian Science Monitor reports on how China’s computermakers tap vast rural market with simple tools and local officials’ support. Lenovo, the world’s third-largest computermaker and China’s best-known global brand, chose China’s northeastern town of Langfang to “launch its assault…
Picnic07: Swisscom anthropologist on why everything is moving into the background
Claritas segments the U.S. population
Ethnographic research to design a better osteoporosis diagnosis device? Of course!
Donald Norman on the importance of unmet needs
Robots turn off senior citizens in ageing Japan
The French and their mobiles
Ferrari on the importance of understanding users
“The user as an unconscious sensor of the environment” was the title of Antonio Calvosa’s (Ferrari S.p.A.) keynote speech today at the Ubicomp conference in Innsbruck, Austria. Abstract: This talk adheres to the vision that in order to bring key…
Principles and practices for successful experience design
Making technology fit users
New French research on collective mobile phone use
The ultimate user experience: technologically-mediated sex, erotica and BDSM
Business Week on service prototyping
Josephine Green of Philips on the need for social innovation
Living Tomorrow
The trouble with computers [The Economist]
INDEX: 2007 magazine and website on user-centered design and innovation
User-centered Design & Innovation is the sub-theme of INDEX: 2007, a series of events currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is thoroughly examined during the Copenhagen Prelude Conference, the INDEX:|Aiga Aspen Design Summit and INDEX: SUMMER CAMP, as…
Insights into an ageing society
Copenhagen conference about creativity, innovation and co-creation
Co-creation is on the agenda when Copenhagen will be the centre of the world’s prominent specialists within creativity and innovation, reports Copenhagen Capacity. The 10th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ECCI X is to convene on 14-17 October 2007.…