Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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…
Something is clearly not working right: About 300,000 motorists have crashed because of a satnav, the [UK] Mirror [newspaper] has found. Around 1.5 million drivers have suddenly veered dangerously or illegally in busy traffic while following its directions. And five…
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…
New mapping technologies are fundamentally changing the way we experience the city. Urban planners Varnelis and Meisterlin explore the busy intersections of design and cartography in a long and excellent essay on Adobe’s Design Center Think Tank. “Today’s intelligent maps…
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…
A group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks. They will discuss what should be done to prevent these risks from becoming realities that could lead to the…
“Polite, pertinent and… pretty: designing for the new wave of personal informatics” was the title of a talk given by Matt Jones (Dopplr) and Tom Coates (Yahoo! Brickhouse) at the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Summarising their talk…
On Wednesday 2 July Nicolas Nova (LIFT lab) moderated a session at the World Congress of Architecture in Turin, Italy, entitled “From ubiquitous technology to human context – Technology applied to architecture and design: does it solve problems or create…
The SAP Design Guild has published a long and quite critical report on the recent CHI conference by Gerd Waloszek, a user experience professional at the business software company SAP. The SAP Design Guild is a site maintained by SAP…
The great people at the splendid French blog InternetActu have conducted an interview with the Japanese sociologist, Mito Akiyoshi. Since InternetActu is published in French, and I have been pushing them time and again to make the rich contents of…
Firms including Microsoft, Intel, Google and IBM have formed an Information Overload Research Group to help workers cope with the digital deluge and improve productivity. “Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and IBM, are banding together…
The second article in Vodafone’s newly updated Receiver Magazine is about China and the next billion customers. Author Jared Braiterman seeks to understand mobile phones play in China’s fast-paced development and explores why China become a centre of passionate technology…
The fact that young people are more adapt at using the latest technologies has less to do with expertise, experience or access, but more with their “non-dramatic” relation with these technologies, as evidenced by the way they deal with small…
In a month’s time Turin, Italy will host the XXIII edition of the World Congress of Architecture, promoted by the UIA (International Union of Architects). More than 4000 participants have registered already. There are over 70 sessions with more than…
Nokia press release: LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Today marks the launch of the new long-term research partnership between Nokia Research Center and the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, with the Pervasive Communications Laboratory doors officially opening in Lausanne. The focus of…
Gartner’s top 10 disruptive technologies 2008-2012: (for what it is worth – the emphasis is mine) Multicore and hybrid processors Virtualisation and fabric computing Social networks and social software – because business IT applications will start to mirror the features…
The Spring issue of Ambidextrous, the design journal of the Stanford d.school, contains a fairly long interview with Joy Mountford>. Joy has been designing and managing interface design efforts for over 20 years. Most recently she was vice president in…
The Spanish innovation network Infonomia features a video section (called Infonomia TV) with a series of English language video interviews that the readers of this blog might find interesting: Nicolas Nova: The future of urban computing [5:25] Nicolas Nova is…