Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category UserResearch
Techno Tots – why computer savvy users are getting younger and younger [BBC]
What is the 1% rule? [The Guardian]
Britons ‘dependent on mobile use’ [BBC]
Kitchen cabinet: new ideas for connecting people and politicians
Whirlpool tests “smart” washers and dryers
Report: The next step in brain evolution [Sunday Times]
The future of human-computer interaction [ACM Queue]
Prof. John Canny of the University of California at Berkeley has published a thoughtful and in-depth article on the future of human-computer interaction in the July/August issue of ACM Queue, a publication of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), “the world’s…
Negative user experience of World Cup on mobile phones [MEX]
The dance of people in public spaces [The New York Times]
Mature users seek uncluttered mobiles, claims research
Rachel Jones, founder of the UK user-centred design company Instrata, writes in Usability News about new research by her company which “set out to discover what consumers in the UK and other European countries aged 30 and upwards really want”…
Philips Design magazine on involving users in the beginning of an innovation process
Philips just released the July issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. In ‘Making the future more tangible‘, the magazine explores how, by involving stakeholders in the ‘fuzzy front end’ of innovation, Philips can truly…
Turning cultures of repair into cultures of innovation
In an effort to understand the total user experience, Jan Chipchase of the Mobile HCI Group at the Nokia Research Center in Tokyo, has taken time out during recent field studies in emerging markets to explore local repair cultures. “The…
Lenovo’s search for the soul of the Chinese customer
Introducing the winners of the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs), Bruce Nussbaum writes in Business Week: “Managers everywhere are turning to rapid ethnography, usability, special materials, and aesthetics—the tools of design—to innovate.” He then goes on to discuss the…
Digital living takes off in Asia [BBC]
Asian countries lead the world in creating digital homes, with Taiwan and Korea at the forefront, says a study. The research, carried out by US market research firm Parks Associates, looked at digital living trends in 13 markets in Asia,…
Usability makes the world work better
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) just launched the official website and event registration for the 2006 World Usability Day, a global series of events on November 14, 2006 to promote awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.…
How customers can help develop concepts via comics
Martin Hardee, director of web experience at Sun, writes in his blog about how Mark Wehner, design researcher at Yahoo! presented best practices for using comic book panels in the design process at the Usability Professionals Association annual meeting earlier…
SmartLab in Torino: Social Media Application Research and Tagging Laboratory
The blog of SmartLab, an interesting new lab in Torino devoted to social media, went live yesterday. SmartLab is the acronym of the Social Media Application Research & Tagging Laboratory established in March 2006 by CSP and the IT Department…