Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
“Working through Screens: 100 ideas for envisioning powerful, engaging, and productive user experiences in knowledge work” is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides…
Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer O’Reilly Media, Inc. Paperback, 268 pages December 3, 2008 ISBN: 0596518390 Promo text: If you want to get started in new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Packed with informative…
The Caryatids (hardcover) by Bruce Sterling Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Del Rey (February 24, 2009) During a speech at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Bruce Sterling announced his next book “The Caryatids”. According to Sterling, the book which will be published in…
The Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine recently organised a workshop on innovation in digital money, entitled Everyday Digital Money. The workshop examined this emerging, complex, and unevenly distributed landscape of digital money innovation from cultural,…
The World as Flatland – Report 1 Designing universal knowledge Gerlinde Schuller Lars Müller Publishers, 2008 ISBN 978-3-03778-149-4 Knowledge is power. If one possesses a collection of the “universal knowledge” of the world, one has ultimate power. Establishing comprehensive, global…
Kazys Varnelis, director of Columbia University’s Network Architecture Lab, has written a very nice essay for Vodafone’s receiver magazine that explores how mediated communication has changed our notion of place, created non-places and now has us darting between simultaneous environments.…
The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID by Rob van Kranenburg Network Notebook #2, September 2008 Report prepared by Rob van Kranenburg for the Institute of Network Cultures with contributions by Sean…
Whiff! The Revolution of Scent Communication in the Information Age by C. Russell Brumfield Quimby Press, Hardcover, June 2008 Secretly, scores of Fortune 500 companies, like Proctor & Gamble, Disney, Bloomingdales, Lexus, Reebok, Sony, Samsung, and Starwood Hotels, have been…
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover) by Tom Boellstorff Princeton University Press Hardcover, 2008, 328 pages Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second…
Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms by Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley, editors Riverside Architectural Press (August 15, 2008) Hardcover, 272 pages Mobile Nation explores the emerging field of mobile experience design. The papers in this anthology include essays…
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Basic Books, 2008 Hardcover, 288 pages This new book, which grew out of the digital natives project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center, investigates “what it…
Donald Norman has just posted a few excerpts from his draft book manuscript tentatively entitled “Sociable Design” for comments and reactions. Introduction Whether designing the rooftop of a building or the rear end of a home or business appliance, sociable…
Nadyne Mielke, user experience researcher in the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft wasn’t so impressed apparently with Adaptive Path’s recent book Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design. “I was disappointed…
Demos, the UK “think tank for everyday democracy”, hosted a conversation with Clay Shirky a few days ago. He was in conversation with Demos Associate and School of Everything CEO Paul Miller, talking around the ideas thrown up by Here…
WorldChanging book review: “Authored by two Univeristy of Chicago heavy-hitters, Economist Richard Thaler and Law Professor Cass Sunstein, Nudge explores the policy implications of behavioral economics, a field describing the irrationalities of human behavior. Taking findings from psychology (e.g. people…
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is organising a four-part lecture series on “Digital Natives,” referring to the generation that has been raised with the computer as a natural part of their lives, especially the young…
HCI Remixed – Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community Edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald MIT Press, 2008 Hardcover, 344 pages > Table of Contents Abstract Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction…
Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies Edited by James E. Katz Afterword by Manuel Castells MIT Press, 2008 Hardcover, 486 pages Abstract Mobile communication has become mainstream and even omnipresent. It is arguably the most successful and certainly the most rapidly…
A few weeks ago we were contacted by Marco Bevolo of Philips Design who was looking for some advance feedback on the book he is writing together with co-authors Stefano Marzano (also Philips Design), Dr. Howard R. Moskowitz and Alex…