Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Nokia design director describes second stage of mobile communications
This afternoon Nokia’s Design Director Marko Ahtisaari talked about “Mobile 2.0: Social Renaissance†at Reboot 8.0 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In his talk, which is summarised by Nicolas Nova on Pasta & Vinegar, Ahtisaari described the second stage of mobile communication.…
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…
Roger Martin on designing decisions
In this interview, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management (the University of Toronto’s business school) explains why managers need to learn how to think like designers, and why all design is really decision design. The interview was…
Stanford conference ponders world with machines more powerful than their creators
Business insights from consumer culture, a top-level conference on ethnography, marketing and business
Mobile computing in high-end retail
As mobile computing becomes increasingly popular in the fashion retail industry, challenges emerge pertaining to usability, system tailoring, and enhancing the manager-client user experience. These issues were addressed at LA Promotion (a facility where selected clients can acquire products three…
Mobile Essentials: Nokia field study and concepting
Nokia Sensor: from research to product
Innovation and creativity workshops at Davos World Economic Forum
Somewhat belatedly, I discovered John Thornhill’s summaries (published in the Financial Times) of the CEO workshops at January’s Davos World Economic Forum. Building a culture of innovation “The participants in this workshop [were] asked to apply design thinking to a…
Implications of ethnography for design
Mediamatic publishes comprehensive reader on RFID
Mediamatic, the Amsterdam cultural institution, has published a comprehensive reader on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), as a preparation for their upcoming workshop on The Internet of Things (9-11 May – speakers include Régine Debatty and Malcolm McCullough). “Radio frequency identification…
The latest from GAIN, AIGA’s Journal of Business and Design
European Futurists Conference presentations
We Media: creating a better-informed society by collaborating with one another
The WE Media Global Forum is a conference that brings together “the trailblazers of the connected society – the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists seeking to tap the potential of digital networks connecting people everywhere”, or in short “how…
Creative communities: a bottom-up perspective on welfare and local development
Peter Morville presentation on ambient findabilility at SXSW
Bruce Sterling on the internet of things
“Value creation through experience” executive course
Classifying experiences
Sorting, Classifying, and Labeling Experiences … in order to understand all factors contributing to how a product (or service) is perceived While plenty of practitioners invoke the word ‘experiences’, how often are we talking about the same thing? From ‘user…