Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Technology
The home is not about efficiency or technology
User interface of the $100 laptop
The user interface for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, the initiative to put $100 laptops in the hands of children around the world led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founding director of the MIT Media Lab, “uses a highly…
Can mobile phones give you ‘presence?’ [International Herald Tribune]
Dutch heritage conference highlights lack of audience understanding
Cisco focuses on end-user experience [IDG News Service]
The user experience of executive dashboards
Philips Design on sustainability and the virtual world
The January 2007 issue of ‘new value by One Design’ (what’s up with that name?), the quarterly magazine of Philips Design, is devoted to articles on sustainability and the virtual world. Some highlights: Helping 400 million people give up smoking…
Good user experience at Microsoft
Don Norman outlines three challenges for HCI
The ever-increasing complexity of everyday things, the ever-increasing burden of security, authentication, and identification and the ever-increasing use of automation are according to Don Norman the three large, overriding issues in the field of human-computer interaction. After all, he writes…
The Boston Globe interviews Marvin Minsky on book “The Emotion Machine”
Motorola’s Motofone experience website
Dreaming of people-centred RSS feeds
To write a professional blog like Putting People First, one needs to scan a lot of material. In fact, Putting People First would be impossible to compile without the help of RSS. I am subscribed to a great many of…
How long until the mobile is the heart of entertainment?
UN warns on password ‘explosion’ [BBC]
Customer experience strategies revealed as patchy [UsabilityNews]
Temporary ‘social’ cellphone numbers let users stay private [International Herald Tribune]
Book: Frontiers of Capital – Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
ITU Internet Report 2006 on digital life
The eight edition of the ITU Internet Report, entitled “digital.life”, focuses on consumers and looks at how human lives are being continuously shaped and re-shaped by advances in digital technologies. The report begins by examining the underlying technologies for new…