Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector By Sam Ladner Left Coast Press April 2014, 200 pages [Publisher link – Amazon link] > Download free sample: pdf – kindle Abstract – Ethnography is an increasingly important…
Sociologist and ethnographer Tricia Wang has posted the notes of “The Conceit of Oracles: How we ended up in a world in which quantitative data is more valued than qualitative data,” her inspiring and much appreciated opening keynote at the…
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Townsend W. W. Norton & Company October 2013. 400 pages [Amazon link] Abstract An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile,…
Design Transitions – Inspiring Stories. Global Viewpoints. How design is changing. By Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies and Lauren Tan BIS Publishers [Book site – Amazon link – selected pages] Abstract Design Transitions presents 42 unique and insightful stories of how…
The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think by Douglas T. Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius Basic Books September 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle…
War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views Douglas P. Fry Oxford University Press April 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract Have humans always waged war? Is warring an ancient evolutionary adaptation or a relatively recent behavior–and what…
Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Technology By Nir Eyal Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Released: December 2013 Pages: 154 [Amazon link] Why do some products capture our attention, while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out…
Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics By Stephen Wendel Publisher: O’Reilly Media Released: November 2013 Pages: 400 [Amazon link] A new wave of products is helping people change their behavior and daily routines, whether it’s exercising more…
Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham 240 pages October 2013 Wiley [Amazon link] Description Businesses thrive when they can engage customers. And, while many companies understand that design is a powerful tool…
A new study carried out for Thinkbox by COG Research and designed to help the advertising community understand the context of multi-screening (watching TV and simultaneously using an internet-connected device such as a laptop, smartphone or tablet). Using a combination…
Nearly all videos of the recent Service Design Global Conference in Cardiff, Wales (19-20 November 2013) are now online: DAY 1 Making Data Useful The Service Design Imperative [30:37] Nick Leon – Royal College of Art Bio and synopsis The…
Design Week investigates a new wave of service design proponants who are helping to embed design in big brands. Taking the two-day Service Design Global Conference as a context, the author highlights the radical changes businesses are making by using…
Bruce Sterling’s Wired UK article on the value of design fiction is very much worth a read, as it defines the field so well: “A formal definition exists: “Design fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief…
UX Australia 2013, a 4-day user experience design conference that took place in Melbourne at the end of August, has posted a lot of presentation slides and audio recordings on its site. Here a (small personal) selection: Agile ethnography in…
Reputation Economics: Why Who You Know Is Worth More Than What You Have by Joshua Klein Palgrave Macmillan Publisher November 2013, 256 pages [Amazon link] Abstract As the internet has increasingly become more social, the value of individual reputations has…
Richard Heinberg, author of The End of Growth, gave the keynote address at the ‘Seoul Youth Hub Conference 2013, Reshaping the Way We Live’, held in Seoul, Korea from 6 to 8 November 2013. The conference was co-hosted with 8…
Mapping Design Research Edited by Simon Grand and Wolfgang Jonas Birkhauser 2012, 256 pages [Amazon link] [Sample chapter] An authoritative and scientifically based collection of 18 international texts since 1960 that mirrors and analyses the principal developmental phases of design…
Connect: Design for an Empathic Society by Sabine Wildevuur, Dick van Dijk, Thomas Hammer-Jakobson, Mie Bjerre, Anne Äyväri and Jesper Lund BIS Publishers, 2014 216 pages [Amazon link] Abstract The prospects are clear: we will probably live longer. The number…
Journalism and anthropology both purport to observe and analyse human behaviour and experience, albeit in different ways and over extremely divergent timescales. And they both serve up their findings to the wider world in order to give it greater understanding…
Changing Behaviours: On the Rise of the Psychological State by Rhys Jones, Jessica Pykett and Mark Whitehead Edward Elgar Publishers 2013, 240 pages [Amazon link] Abstract Changing Behaviours charts the emergence of the behaviour change agenda in UK based public…