Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Book
Mining the golden years [Business Week]
Stuff the kids [The Guardian]
The latest from GAIN, AIGA’s Journal of Business and Design
Book: Mobile Interaction Design
The Persona Lifecycle: a field guide for interaction designers
The Persona Lifecycle, First Edition : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design The Persona Lifecycle (Amazon – Elsevier) addresses the “how” of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe…
An exponentially expanding future from exponentially shrinking technology
Ray Kurzweill, author of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology and featured before in this blog (link and link), was recently a guest speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he discussed how our lives might look…
“Shaping Things” by Bruce Sterling
“Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it’s about everything,” writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, “Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic.” Sterling offers…
Designing for the Scent of Information
Apparently a must-read if you work on sites with large amounts of information: Designing for the Scent of Information The essentials every designer needs to know about how users navigate through large web sites By Jared M. Spool, Christine Perfetti…
Designing for Small Screens
A useful book concentrating on the important “user experience†aspects of design for small screen devices The design of interactive applications or presentations on small screens can be challenging for the designer. Not all design concepts that are valid on…
Rosenfeld Media, a new UX publishing house
Louis Rosenfeld, the founder of UXnet and the author of the book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, has founded Rosenfeld Media, a new user experience publishing house. Rosenfeld Media is a publishing house dedicated to developing short,…
The product as story [The Observer]
If you had to write your organisation’s obituary, what would it say? Would there be any mourners? Has it made any difference to anyone? Would the world be worse off without it? Would anyone actually notice? Faced with this question,…
Business Week reviews IDEO’s most recent book
Business Week just published a review on Tom Kelley’s new book “The Ten Faces of Innovation” (see also my earlier post). Though critical of the fact that all insights are filtered through only one design consultancy, IDEO, the reviewer praises…
In-depth interview with Tom Kelley of IDEO
Dave Iverson of San Francisco public radio station KQED interviews Tom Kelley, the general manager of IDEO, about his new book The Ten Faces of Innovation. The 45 minute interview focuses on how to encourage and recognise daily innovation and…
The design of things to come
From strategy, brand and innovation to product, service and experience Businesses fifteen years ago referred to everything as product, and the focus was on how to make those products robust. A new life insurance policy was referred to as a…
Making sense – design for well-being
The theme of this doctoral dissertation, entitled “Making Sense – Design for Well-being” is the design of IT artefacts for increased well-being in the home. The goal of this publication, written by Sara Ilstedt Hjelm at KTH, Sweden, was to…
The 10 faces of innovation [Fast company]
Fast company published a long excerpt from the book "The Ten Faces of Innovation" by (IDEO's) Tom Kelley
Kurzweil sees future when humans, tech will converge [The Mercury News]
Ray Kurzweil, one of the USA’s most acclaimed inventors, has some unusual ideas about how we’ll live in 25 years. Looking ahead 40 years, Kurzweil believes humans will evolve into semi-mechanical beings who can alter their physical appearance at will.…
The mobile connection: the cell phone’s impact on society
Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for “real time†coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens “text†to each other day and night. The…
Peter Morville publishes “Ambient Findability”
How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically…