Category UserResearch
User experience at Oracle
Users who know too much [CIO Magazine]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on understanding alternative scenarios for the future
Advanced programme of CHI 2007 available
The CHI 2007 organisers have published an “advanced programme” of the conference, which will take place 28 April – 3 May in San Jose, California. Some highlights: Opening plenary: “Reaching for the intuitive” by Bill MoggridgeBill will attempt to show…
High technology meets cultural anthropology: Dr Genevieve Bell
Uploading innovation, a NESTA event
Putting People First poll
Young, mobile, but not yet online [The Times]
User research in a different world
Adaptive Path president takes aim at Jakob Nielsen
Anne Kirah: “When culture meets technology and when technology meets culture”
Anne Kirah, until recently Senior Design Anthropologist at the Microsoft Corporation, spoke recently about her experience in developing software user interfaces that are based on local cultural conditions. The 50 minute talk, which can be seen in video stream, was…
Belgium’s i-City project tests mobile applications with thousands of users
Users turn their noses up at mobile TV
The human factor in gadget, Web design [CNET News]
Be connected on the go: not anytime – not anywhere [Swisscom Innovations]
LIFT07: the private is invading the workplace, not the other way around
Demos project on user-led service design in local authorities
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on literacy and mobile phone design
Illiterate consumers are in many ways lead users for the rest of us, argues Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia, at his presentation at the LIFT conference. A person is literate who can with understanding both read and write a…