Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category UserResearch
Living Labs conference in Belgium
Big brands turning to Big Brother [Daily Telegraph]
Book: Anthropology in Consumer Research
Intel admits tech can be tedious [The Register]
CNBC on the role of customers in business innovation
Singapore Management University designing campus IT around the user
Csikszentmihalyi starts doctoral programme on happiness
The Jan Chipchase controversy: corporate ethnography is “primitive”
Business Week interviews Nokia’s Jan Chipchase
Qualitative research leads to new bicycle “for fun”
When Japanese bike part manufacturer Shimano set out to make a bicycle aimed at America’s dwindling group of casual bikers, they enlisted the help of design consultancy IDEO, and embarked on a qualitative research and design process that eventually lead…
Sociology at Microsoft
Canadian HOT Topics magazine on user experience
People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
Mobile communication, a professional social network for mobile society researchers
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
Billing itself as a nonprofit venture capital firm, the Acumen Fund uses the principles of design to solve the problems of the poor. Just as the Procter & Gambles and Motorolas of the corporate world conduct extensive ethnographic research on…
GE’s user-friendly healthcare concepts for Africa [Business Week]
GE Healthcare sells $15 billion a year worth of big X-ray machines, CAT scans, and ultrasound testing equipment. The healthcare division of General Electric (GE ) usually differentiates its products by getting better and faster readings from its instruments—”feeds and…
The face of the $100 laptop [Business Week]
Business Week features a long story on Sugar, the breakthrough graphical user interface on the so-called $100 laptop. User testing only started this February when about 2500 beta test machines were shipped to beta testing countries, an approach that received…
Ethnographic research informs Intel’s Mobile Clinical Assistant
New network for user-driven innovation in Denmark
A network of companies, designers, researchers and organisations are joining forces to write a script covering user-driven innovation. The purpose is that in the future, other players may utilise the pilot project’s experiences, writes Denmark’s daily business paper Børsen (and…