Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Backpackers in Australia often wish to organise group activities, but have few collaboration methods available and only a trickle of communication is possible between them as they move. They regularly explore unfamiliar locations quickly, but have only basic resources to…
About two months ago, I complained in this blog about the fact that i2010, the EU’s website on digital inclusion and participation, was about the opposite of accessibility and inclusivity. I sent the same message to the cabinet of the…
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,…
Vodafone is initiating a new way of communicating itself to its customers. The most obvious aspects of this image repositioning are, initially, a change to the design of the Vodafone logo and a new Vodafone communication platform, with the now…
The Workshop on Digital Inclusion and Participation in Brussels on 23 September 2005 aimed at setting the scene for the EU’s i2010 ambitions: an inclusive information society that provides high quality public services and promotes quality of life. It involved…
“Strange that Inform.com, the latest online newsreader, didn’t include its own much-promoted launch in today’s inaugural Lead Story headlines. It didn’t make its own business or tech sections either. Not even entertainment. Remarkable editorial restraint, I’d say, for a startup…
By affecting how people think and act and by connecting an organisation to its constituents’ values, design can enhance performance. In this article for the Design Management Journal, Roger Sametz and Andrew Maydoney of Sametz Blackstone Associates (a strategic…
The Sacred World Foundation was founded several years ago by Ranjit Makkuni, a visionary and designer and a former leading researcher at Xerox PARC. It is a state of the art research and design think tank, located in New Delhi,…
The communications and public relations landscape is changing rapidly. Are press releases dead? Will blogs soon replace them? For dialogue and debate on this and more, check out the New PR/Wiki, set up as an in-depth resource for executives, PR…
The increasing ubiquity and popularity of mass SMS-enabled but temporary political affiliation may actually end up bringing its demise. These are not true bottom-up, spontaneous, grass-roots expressions of networked solidarity, nor even representations of groups willing to follow up on…
Africa is the world’s fastest-growing cellphone market, a boom that has taken the industry by surprise. From 1999 through 2004, the number of mobile subscribers in Africa jumped to 76.8 million, from 7.5 million, an average annual increase of 58…
The latest ‘Big Bang’ in information-sharing is free, and its flagship already gets more traffic than the New York Times and USA Today combined: Meet the ‘wiki.’ Read full story
Technorati has published this chart (click to enlarge) that illustrates the influence or authority of a site or blog as measured by the number of people who are linking to it. As the chart above shows, the most influential media…
[You could call it a less pleasant sort of “experience design”] The Washington Post’s website features a special report consisting of three in-depth articles, two video reports and various graphics that explore how al Qaeda has become the first guerrilla…
Mobile phones have turned members of the public into reporters and camera crews – “citizen journalists”. The media are hungry for their digital images and eyewitness accounts. Read full story
Recent experiences in the struggle against terrorism have shown not only what a critical role the public plays in preventing and responding to crises, but also the importance of a widely available tool the public can use to prevent terrorist…
The Pattern Map offers a visual guide to the sustainability patterns that provide a framework for developing a Conservation Economy: an ecologically restorative, socially just and reliably prosperous society. The fifty-seven patterns are adaptable to local ecosystems and cultures, yet…
France Télécom this month offered up its latest version of convergence by tacking on a few useful services to its Livebox home networking product, a “triple play” service combining Internet, telephone and television service. The most interesting of the new…
Website lets Americans see what the world’s non-English publications say about US policy. The headline reads, “Columbus’ Discovery of America: History’s ‘Biggest Mistake.’ ” That might sound harsh to an American audience, but it’s less likely to ruffle Iraqis reading…
Bob Griffith, editor of Macworld, expresses his doubts on the much-hyped podcasting phenomenon. I couldn’t agree more. Read full story