Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
In a Business Week interview design guru Don Norman argues for making autos less automated and for infusing gadgets with natural, easy-to-interpret feedback signals. In his new book, The Design of Future Things (Basic Books), Don Norman isn’t afraid to…
M3, the Dutch marketing conference, was this year devoted to co-creation. Keynote speakers were Charles Leadbeater (author of We-Think) and Andrew Keen (author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture), arguing their “enemy” positions.…
2007 Summer at Kitchen Budapest (Paperback) by Bircsák Eszter, Somlai-Fischer Szabolcs (ed.) Kitchen Budapest (KiBu), opening in June 2007, (see also here) is a brand new media lab for young researchers who are not only interested in the convergence of…
Dott 07 was a year of community design projects in North East England that explored what life in a sustainable region could be like – and how design can help us get there. It is called a manual (rather than…
Now that Donald Norman‘s new book, The Design of Future Things, has been published, the man is on a book tour and interviews with him are popping up left and right. After a first one on Core77 (see also this…
Jim Gilmore and Joe Pine, authors of the 1999 marketing classic, The Experience Economy: Work is Theater and Every Business a Stage, have just published a new book Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (see also this post). In a review…
Doing Anthropology in Consumer ResearchPatricia L. Sunderland; Rita M. DennyLeft Coast Press, Inc.352 pp.Nov, 2007 Abstract Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research is an essential new guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in corporate consumer environments. Patricia…
Processing is an open-source programming language that can be used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and anyone who wants to program images, animation, and interactivity. There were many people involved in making Processing to what it is now, but…
James Gilmore and Joe Pine, authors of the 1999 bestseller “The Experience Economy“, have now published a new book “Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want”. Abstract Contrived. Disingenuous. Phony. Inauthentic. Do your customers use any of these words to describe what…
Leonard Verhoef recently completed a Ph.D. at the Universiteit of Leiden (The Netherlands) on the reasons why designers cannot understand their users. He has now self-published his dissertation. Why designers can’t understand their users: Developing a systematic approach using cognitive…
Everyday Engineering: What Engineers See by Andrew Burroughs, IDEO Hardcover: 204 pages Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 6, 2007) Book page | Amazon page Abstract From soaring industrial structures to the humble manhole cover and streetlight, everything in the built environment…
Thoughtful Interaction Design A Design Perspective on Information Technology Jonas Löwgren and Erik Stolterman MIT Press, 2007 ISBN: 0262622092 212 pages The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual technical concerns of usability and usefulness to consider interaction…
Bruce Sterling is now living in Torino, Italy and will stay here, together with his wife, Serbian author and film-maker Jasmina Tesanovic, until the end of March 2008. He is here at the invitation of the Regional Government of Piedmont…
Bruce Sterling will be moving to Turin (a.k.a. “Torino”), Italy, starting September – for a period of six to eight months. Sterling [wikipedia – blog] is an American science fiction writer and highly acclaimed futurist thinker and design critic. His…