Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Luca Chittaro (blog), a professor at the University of Udine, covers the CHI 2008 conference in Florence for Novà , the innovation supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s business newspaper. He is already at the pre-conference workshops where he is…
Luca Chittaro will keep a running blog (in English and Italian) during CHI 2008 where he promises “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer interaction”. Chittaro, who is a professor at the University of…
“By 2020 the terms ‘interface’ and ‘user’ will be obsolete as computers merge ever closer with humans,” is the first sentence of a short article on the BBC News site. According to the BBC, “it is one of the predictions…
Next week on 8 and 9 April I will be at CHI 2008, the international conference that this year is taking place in Florence, Italy. On Wednesday afternoon you can find me in the panel on Interactions Magazine, that Richard…
In a few months, Turin will host the World Congress of Architecture, the top architecture event in the world. They have an interesting programme, with some speakers I really like. They are called “Relatori” on their English website, which non-Italians…
The people from the German consultancy Trendbüro published a short interview with Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken on the topic of identity. It is part of their strategy to publicise their forthcoming Trend Day, which has the theme: “Identity Management –…
The UK government is aiming to make the country a global leader in the arts, media and advertising through initiatives including the creation of thousands of new apprenticeships and the launch of a Davos-style world creative business conference. Prime Minister…
The world of design and innovation has greatly changed in the last decade. The challenges are more complex, more intricate, and more systemic, and therefore require an increasingly holistic and multidisciplinary approach, especially in education. Or in the words of…
I am in Barcelona today to attend the Art Center Global Dialogues: Disruptive Thinking event. The one-day conference is set up as “a series of on-stage conversations with internationally renowned thinkers in many fields whose “disruptive†ideas and actions challenge…
Donald Norman is probably one of the most prominent guests at the upcoming Piemonte Share Festival, curated by Bruce Sterling. Norman will be part of a panel on Saturday afternoon 15 March entitled “Manufacturing Future Designs”. The many conferences of…
Mobile services strategist and fellow Belgian Rudy Dewaele asked me to pitch an upcoming innovation conference in Barcelona. Although not directly related to human-centred design, as a major foresight and innovation conference it merits attention: The Art Center Global Dialogues:…
Most of the presentations of the recent Interaction 08 conference are now online. Here they are in alphabetical order of the speaker’s last name: Cinematic Interaction Design, Sarah Allen, Laszlo Systems (synopsis) Concept Ideation and IxD, Gretchen Anderson, Lunar (synopsis)…
The LIFT conference started on Wednesday and unfortunately I could not attend due to work pressures (our partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is there though). But there is a solution: fifteen presentations can already be viewed online. Check out Genevieve Bell (Intel),…
The Usability Professionals’ Association is proud to announce the first European Regional UPA Conference. The conference will take place from December 4th to December 6th 2008 in the beautiful city of Turin, Italy – the 2008 World Design Capital.…
About a month ago I announced the conference Changing the Change about the role and results of design research in the transition towards sustainability (see PPF and Core77). The conference will be held in Torino, Italy, 10 to 12 July…
Torino, Italy officially opens the World Design Year next week with an extraordinary New Year’s Eve, organised specially to celebrate Torino 2008 World Design Capital. The centre of events for 31 December 2007 is Piazza Castello [the “Castle Square”], the…
Nicolas Nova, user experience and foresight researcher working at the Media and Design Lab (EPFL) and at the near future laboratory, is currently in Brussels where he gave a talk yesterday at iMal, a brand new center for digital cultures…
Dan Saffer is the director IxDA, the Interaction Design Association, and conference chair of Interaction 08, the first IxDA conference. He is also experience design director at Adaptive Path and the author of Designing for Interaction. In this interview with…
The “Power of Collaborative Innovation” will be the theme of the World Economic Forum’s Annual meeting in Davos, January 23-27, 2008. Looking to the future, it becomes readily apparent that complexity, competing interests and scarce resources remain the greatest obstacles…
Robert Ellis Smith, publishes of the Privacy Journal, writes in Forbes Magazine: Government and corporate officials responsible for compliance with privacy laws in Canada and Europe are using a whole new language in 2007. Much of the jargon has passed…