Picnic conference videos
On Dik.nl, you can find quite a lot of Picnic conference videos. (via European Centre for the Experience Economy)
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Thoughts on the Euro Information Architecture Summit 2008
Victor Lombardi was at the Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam, and reports on it on his blog Noise Between Stations. The article reviews presentations by Adam Greenfield (Head of Design Direction, Nokia and keynote speaker), Ruud Ruissaard (Informaat), Chris Fahey…
Experientia’s Jan-Christoph Zoels at Picnic /3
Experientia’s senior partner Jan-Christoph Zoels was this week at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam, and has been providing regular reports. Here is his third one, covering the Thursday afternoon sessions: Making Love is Eskil Steenberg (Quel Solaar)’s take on a…
Microsoft Research New England inaugural symposium
On Sept. 22, 2008, Microsoft Research New England conducted an inaugural symposium in Cambridge, Mass., hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to open an extensive collaboration with leading research institutions in the region. The symposium included introductions to Microsoft…
Experientia’s Jan-Christoph Zoels at Picnic /2
Experientia’s senior partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is this week at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam and is sending regular updates. Here is his second one, covering the Thursday morning sessions: Group actions just got easier! – Clay Shirky jump-started the second…
Experientia’s Jan-Christoph Zoels at Picnic /1
Experientia’s senior partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is this week at the Picnic conference in Amsterdam and is sending regular updates. Here is his first one: Create the Future – Collaborative creativity is the guiding theme of Picnic, Amsterdam’s Cross Media Conference,…
Identity management manifesto
In March this year Trendbuero, the consultancy “for social change”, organised its 13th Trend Day. The topic was “Identity Management – Recognition replaces attention”, with speakers such as Richard Florida, Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic, Norbert Bolz (BANG-Design), Hartmut Esslinger of…
More service design symposium videos online
In March, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (blog) organised a symposium on service design. Some time ago, I reported that videos of three of the presentations (Bill Hollins, Bill Moggridge, and Jørgen Rosted) were online. Meanwhile you can also…
NLab’s social networks conference
NLab is a lab developed by the Faculty of the Humanities of De Montfort University in Leicester, UK to connect creative businesses with writers and generate pioneering partnerships. In June they organised a very interesting one-day conference on social networks…
EuroITV2009 conference
Normally Putting People First doesn’t promote conferences, but this is one organised by a good colleague, held at the Belgian university town where I studied, and on a topic that we at Experientia are professionally quite heavily involved with. So…
Nokia presentations at LIFT 08
Two of the three Nokia presentations at the LIFT Asia conference are now online. Raphael Grignani (Nokia Design, USA) talked about how Nokia Design addresses environmental and social issues including recycling, energy and making the benefits of mobile technology available…
The techno-mobile life in our networked cities
Nicolas Nova and Bruno Giussani have been blogging two of the LIFT Asia conference sessions that took place in Seoul today. Session: Networked city The new digital layers provided by ICTs are transforming contemporary urban environments. What does that mean…
Book: Mobile Nation
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…
Eight habits and eight ideas at Core77
Two new articles on Core77 caught my interest: Beyond the schlock of the new: eight strategies for design and foresight by Kevin McCullagh [For those from outside the USA: “schlock” is a play of words, referring to both the “shock…
Alan Cooper on the wisdom of experience
Alan Cooper was asked by the leadership of the Agile 2008 Conference to give the closing keynote address at their annual conference in Toronto. Since the audience at Agile08 consisted of about 1500 programmers, engineers, product managers, and others involved…
User centric design session at b.TWEEN conference
The various sessions of the June 2008 b.TWEEN conference, “a unique cross media gathering where interactive ideas are seeded, shared and sold”, are now online. One of them dealt with user centric design: Products designed without clear insight into end-user…
LIFT09 conference focuses on new forms of socialisation
The upcoming edition of the internationally renowned LIFT conference will take place in Geneva on February 25, 26 and 27, 2009. The LIFT09 conference will explore the new forms of socialization with sessions about the impact of new technologies on…
Recent videos on Fora TV
Fora TV (a.k.a. “the thinking man’s YouTube”) has some videos that are worth taking a look at: Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody Aspen Institute – Jul. 06, 2008 Clay Shirky discusses his latest book, Here Comes Everybody, about the way…
Podcast: Hello everybody… Clay Shirky at Demos
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…
Scientists: humans and machines will merge in future
A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks. They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the…