Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Digital technology is changing the everyday forms and experience of money. Cheryl Miller reports on the Research@Intel blog how field research by Intel’s People & Practices Research team identified key themes and opportunities for technological innovation. The researchers presented their…
Two of the three Nokia presentations at the LIFT Asia conference are now online. Raphael Grignani (Nokia Design, USA) talked about how Nokia Design addresses environmental and social issues including recycling, energy and making the benefits of mobile technology available…
The upcoming New York Times Magazine has a long feature on the effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of incessant online contact. “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient…
Nicolas Nova and Bruno Giussani have been blogging two of the LIFT Asia conference sessions that took place in Seoul today. Session: Networked city The new digital layers provided by ICTs are transforming contemporary urban environments. What does that mean…
Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms by Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley, editors Riverside Architectural Press (August 15, 2008) Hardcover, 272 pages Mobile Nation explores the emerging field of mobile experience design. The papers in this anthology include essays…
Ofcom, , the UK communications regulator, today published an initial consultation document assessing how the mobile sector delivers on the needs of UK citizens and consumers and posing questions about the future of competition and regulatory policy. Ofcom’s aims for…
MobileActive reports on how farmers in emerging markets are using mobile phones to improve their livelihoods: Agriculture is what keeps economies in most developing countries alive. However, farmers in many countries face major challenges. In an age of global markets,…
The PICNIC conference website has posted a short but intriguing interview with Adam Greenfield, Nokia’s new head of design direction. An excerpt about the urban experience, technology and solitude: “You know, I believe that cities are all about difficulty. They’re…
Benjamin Dangl of AlterNet reflects on how cell phone use has crept into every aspect of daily life, ironically weakening the basic human communication that is the fabric of any community. As Slate commented in his Adbusters essay, “It seems…
Because today’s social networking rarely function or perform well on a mobile device, Oz Communications CEO Jim Knapik argues that carriers must find a simple way to bring the best social networking communities to the mobile masses. A complete mobile…
As part of its coverage on the Bellagio conference on mobile health, MobileActive interviewed Patricia Mechael who is coordinating the mobile strategy for the Millennium Village Project. She talks about mobile adoption, user-centric design, women and mobiles, how Millennium Villages…
Ken Banks writes in PC World on the capacity of the mobile phone to bridge the digital divide. While developed markets get excited by the iPhone, N95, BlackBerry, 3G, WiMax and Android, in developing countries, most excitement centers around the…
Jan Chipcase, Nokia’s user researcher, is the latest contributor in the ongoing series of emerging markets articles that are being published on a weekly basis in Vodafone Receiver’s magazine. Chipchase stresses that his research is more than just “an attempt…
The New York Times reports on software development for mobile devices in emerging markets, through a nice feature on what is currently happening in that area in Kenya: “While engineers in the United States lavish attention on expensive phones that…
As our lives become exposed to more and more technology, and companies become more and more interested in how technology affects us and how we interface with it, anthropologists have found themselves in increasing demand. Ken Banks of Kiwanja.net provides…
For the last two years, David Frohlich and Matt Jones have worked together on StoryBank (movie), a project enabling textual and computer illiterate people to build a repository of audio-visual content via camera phones. Vodafone Receiver magazine has published their…
In May this year, the Guardian weekly published a 5-page special report for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on how new technologies are improving the lives of people around the world, with a particular emphasis on developing nations. Articles…
Two articles in design mind, the online and print magazine of frog design, are worth pointing out on this blog: 555 Million Subscribers & Counting As the competition grows in China’s mobile market, it is cultural dynamics that will determine…
Andrew Grill, a UK telecoms senior executive, discusses the future of the Subscriber Identity Module, better known as the SIM card. “As a tool that securely manages a subscriber’s identity, the SIM is the only remaining element of the mobile…
MobileActive reports on two studies that explore how low-income people use mobile technology in Brazil and South Africa. This rise of mobile phone use by low-income and so-called ‘base-of-the-pyramid’ users raises a number of questions. Are low-income people using mobile…