Category UserResearch
Stuff the kids [The Guardian]
The latest from GAIN, AIGA’s Journal of Business and Design
More web users browsing via mobile device [Information Week]
New Motorola survey demonstrates the real-world impact of 3G
Interview with Microsoft ethnographer Tracey Lovejoy
New media design for cultural institutions
Qualitative research in the Middle East and North Africa
The limits of consumer-created content [Web User]
User Centered Design Works
Trendwatching website on Infolust
Senior citizens not big users of cell phones, even for emergencies
Vodafone online magazine on mobile phones and the yearning factor
New report on the relationship between teens, technology and society
HP targets “next billion customers” with technologies for growing economies
HP yesterday announced new technologies, created by researchers in HP Labs India, which are designed to help grow opportunities in rapidly expanding economies. The technologies, which primarily focus on India but also address markets in China, Russia and Brazil, are…
Design for patient safety
EU Commissioner advocates user-centred design and citizen-centric services
Designing for the base of the pyramid
Design for the Base of the Pyramid is an initiative by the IIT Institute of Design “to develop human-centered design strategies and concepts for new products, services and businesses capable of generating sustainable economic improvement in the lives of people…
Design revelations from Shanghai [Business Week]
For the last 10 years, the state of mainstream design in China has approximated the first stage of design in the U.S., writes Patrick Whitney in a Business Week column. Consumers in the emerging mass market are gravitating toward products…