Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
The second day of the Fortune Innovation Forum featured a panel discussion called “Design Matters” with Chris Bangle of BMW Group Design, Minda Gralnek of Target and Richard Koshalek of the Art Center College of Design. Is design the same…
Steve Portigal pointed out to me that he just wrote up his own impressions on four user experience related conferences he attended this autumn: – Creative CanUX in Banff in September – About, With, and For (AWF) in Chicago…
Ken Friedman works at the intersection of three fields: design, management and art. At Denmark’s Design School, he works with theory construction and comparative research methodology for design and as Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design at the Norwegian School…
Abstracts and posters of the first Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC, that took place on 14-15 November in Redmond, WA, are already online. The conference proceedings are also downloadable (pdf, 1.9 mb, 198 pages), be it for a limited…
Identity 2.0 is a new user-centric and secure concept of identity on the web, rather than the current directory or site-centric one, which is not exactly safe. Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip Identity, made a brilliant presentation of what this…
Can computers help fight obesity? Can technology motivate you to waste less energy? Can communication devices help overcome racial prejudice? Can a virtual agent persuade you to break your smoking habit? Can a mobile phone help you study? Can a…
DIS 2006, SIGCHI’s biennial conference on Designing Interactive Systems, will take place at Penn State University, University Park, PA USA on June 26-28. DIS has become an internationally recognised forum for design researchers and reflective practitioners. Penn State Professor John…
MIT Technology Review discusses the blossoming field of corporate ethnography as a way to study how people actually use technology and reports on the first-ever Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), organised by ethnographers at Intel and Microsoft and held…
UPA 2006: Usability Through Storytelling brings together engaging speakers from the fields of education, culture, design, technology and entertainment, including: – Steve Denning, “organisational storyteller extraordinaire” – Kevin Brooks, senior staff researcher, Motorola Labs – Nelson Soken, senior engineering manager,…
Rachel Jones of Instrata reflects on the recent “People-Inspired Innovation” conference organised by Chimera* at Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK. When she was last year part of the DTI mission to the west coast of the US (see earlier post),…
A few months ago I wrote about the Gel and euroGel conferences in 2006. Mark Hurst just posted a partial line-up of speakers. The euroGel 2006 conference which will take place on 1 September 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark, features: Han…
The first ever Italian Information Architecture Summit will take place on 24 February 2006 in Rome and registration is free. The main force behind this endeavour is the highly dynamic Emanuele Quintarelli, who has already confirmed me in an…
Luke Wroblewski writes in his blog Functioning Form about his experiences at the recent Designing for User Experience Conference (DUX 05) in San Francisco November 4-5th. He concludes that “user experience design, its methodologies, and terminology are now well established…
A couple of months ago I posted about a very exciting experience design case study by Marc Rettig and MAYA Design on work done for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. On Monday 12 December the Information Architecture Institute organises a…
Bruce Nussbaum, who writes a column on innovation and design for Business Week, reflects today on the IDSA/HP Design About on BOP–the bottom of the pyramid. “Gary Elliot, the vice president of brand marketing for HP, talked about “Me-ism” in…
Today’s tech toys throw in goodies we scarcely used to imagine, from cellphones with tiny TV screens to computers that stream video wirelessly through your house. But lots of those features you probably don’t want, can’t use or don’t know…
Consumers forever grumble about products and services making their life difficult, but there are some shining examples leading the way. As World Usability Day approaches, what are the best doing right? Read full story
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…
As companies seek a better understanding of their customers, designers explore more user-centred methods and educators introduce social issues into the curriculum, the time is right for inclusive design. That was the encouraging message to emerge from the third Include…
The Isreali Design Center, Israel’s first museum dedicated to design will open in Holon by 2008. A series of conferences exploring the role of design in society and raising awareness for the forthcoming museum have been planned. The first conference,…