Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Some months ago I announced the publication of the book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser. The book, which grew out of the digital natives project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center,…
Deep Search was a conference on the social, cultural and political implications of search, that took place on 8 November 2008 in Vienna, Austria. “Deep Search” wants to look at the social and political dimensions of how we navigate the…
A review of the Shaping the Global Design Agenda conference by Mark Vanderbeeken (Experientia) and Marcia Caines (Cluster) The days after the American presidential election are clearly a period of reflection. Newspapers and magazines are full of thoughtful articles, and…
Two major research reports were published last week about digital lifestyles in Europe. EIAA Mediascope Europe 2008 (press release – executive summary) tells you all you want to know about why people are using digital stuff. It is particularly useful…
Over 250 participants are expected to attend the first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) next month. From December 4-6, 2008, the beautiful baroque city of Turin, 2008 World Design Capital, will host the conference, themed “Usability…
DIT-Design in Tourism was an EU-funded project to develop tools suitable for everyday use within the tourism industry and to promote service design competencies from terminology to strategies and concepts. The project has – up till now – not been…
Alcatel-Lucent’s Worldwide Lab is an innovative primary research program focused on soliciting the end-user experiences and preferences from the highly coveted teen and young adult market. Lab Members are made up of users from around the world and range in…
“Working through Screens: 100 ideas for envisioning powerful, engaging, and productive user experiences in knowledge work” is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides…
Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer O’Reilly Media, Inc. Paperback, 268 pages December 3, 2008 ISBN: 0596518390 Promo text: If you want to get started in new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Packed with informative…
MobileActive.org has just released its newest resource, A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media. “In this report we explore the dynamics of the role of mobile phones in enhancing access to and creating information and citizen-produced…
The Caryatids (hardcover) by Bruce Sterling Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Del Rey (February 24, 2009) During a speech at Mobile Monday Amsterdam, Bruce Sterling announced his next book “The Caryatids”. According to Sterling, the book which will be published in…
Last week frog design and IxDA NY organised Tiger.Blam, a public conversation with Nokia’s Jan Chipchase on effective design research in cross-cultural mobile markets, or in other words, how he ‘designs’ his research expeditions. No video or presentation download is…
In this nearly 27 minute video Bruce Sterling, a leading futurist, speaker, columnist and science fiction writer, shares his vision on where mobile is heading. Preaching his story from a somewhat unconventional place, the pulpit instead of the stage, he…
Two user experience magazines landed on my desk this week. They are available only to subscribers, both in print and online. But subscriptions are relatively cheap. User Experience is the quarterly magazine of the Usability Professionals’ Association (membership is a…
Videos of the September LIFT conference in Seoul, Korea are slowly being posted. The latest one is by Jan Chipchase, a well-known Nokia user researcher. “He details the nine trends he thinks will shape the future of social interactions, trends…
The Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Irvine recently organised a workshop on innovation in digital money, entitled Everyday Digital Money. The workshop examined this emerging, complex, and unevenly distributed landscape of digital money innovation from cultural,…
The World as Flatland – Report 1 Designing universal knowledge Gerlinde Schuller Lars Müller Publishers, 2008 ISBN 978-3-03778-149-4 Knowledge is power. If one possesses a collection of the “universal knowledge” of the world, one has ultimate power. Establishing comprehensive, global…
Kazys Varnelis, director of Columbia University’s Network Architecture Lab, has written a very nice essay for Vodafone’s receiver magazine that explores how mediated communication has changed our notion of place, created non-places and now has us darting between simultaneous environments.…
Yesterday Genevieve Bell, a highly respected anthropologist and Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group, gave a lecture at Indiana University’s School of Informatics. One of the university’s doctoral student reports: Bell used an ethnographic lens to examine…
The fourth annual international Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark last week. As described by Lucy Kimbell, EPIC “brings together those working in organizations for whom ethnography is central to their practice. They might be…