Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Potential computer users in the developing world will not want a basic $100 hand-cranked laptop due to be rolled out to millions, chip-maker Intel Corp. chairman Craig Barrett said on Friday. “Mr. Negroponte has called it a $100 laptop —…
Nokia today announced its intention to opening several Nokia Flagship Stores in “shopping capitals of the world.” The first Nokia Flagship store opened today in the prestigious Pushkin Square district of Moscow, Russia. In addition to generating sales, a…
New McKinsey research reveals how the shift from transactional to tacit interactions requires companies to think differently about how to improve performance—and about their technology investments. Moreover, the rise of tacit occupations opens up the possibility that companies can…
Teenagers are using more technology at a younger age to connect with more people than ever before, according to a study of young consumers prepared by Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based market research company. The report, based on a…
About two months ago, I complained in this blog about the fact that i2010, the EU’s website on digital inclusion and participation, was about the opposite of accessibility and inclusivity. I sent the same message to the cabinet of the…
Industry insiders told a gathering of about 150 people at the Digital Living Room conference that consumers have yet to see a need for home networks and that the complexity involved in setting one up scares away potential buyers. According…
“I have been teaching mechanical engineers the process of design for more than 15 years. Traditional engineering design courses focus on technology and not context. The result is a downstream focus on making a design work rather than on…
Being online, being a Buzzer, is a way of life for millions of young Americans across the country. And increasingly, social networks are their medium. Preeminent among these virtual hangouts is MySpace.com, whose membership has nearly quadrupled since January alone,…
A recent interview with Marko Ahtisaari is now online at the Danish Design Center’s web portal. Ahtisaari is the Director of Design Strategy at Nokia and Sebastian Campion talked to him just before his presentation at the Ars Electronica conference…
Future Perfect is the blog of Jan Chipchase, who works in the User Experience Group at Nokia Research. He defines it as a blog “about the collision of people, society and technology, drawing on issues related to the user research…
It is innovation’s biggest paradox: We demand more and more from the stuff in our lives–more features, more function, more power–and yet we also increasingly demand that it be easy to use. And, in an Escher-like twist, the technology that’s…
Abstracts and posters of the first Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC, that took place on 14-15 November in Redmond, WA, are already online. The conference proceedings are also downloadable (pdf, 1.9 mb, 198 pages), be it for a limited…
Can computers help fight obesity? Can technology motivate you to waste less energy? Can communication devices help overcome racial prejudice? Can a virtual agent persuade you to break your smoking habit? Can a mobile phone help you study? Can a…
MuLiMob is an EU financed multi-partner project aimed at using Europe’s linguistic and cultural diversity as hallmark to bolster the mobile market. MuLiMob will review and analyse elements to be changed, fine-tuned and solved in order to develop wireless applications…
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) just published the inaugural issue of the Journal of Usability Studies, a UPA peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to “promoting and enhancing the practice, research, ethics and education of usability engineering”. A great positive is…
MIT Technology Review discusses the blossoming field of corporate ethnography as a way to study how people actually use technology and reports on the first-ever Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC), organised by ethnographers at Intel and Microsoft and held…
UC Berkeley and Yahoo! recently established a joint research laboratory, headed by Prof. Marc Davis, to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on…
Since recently Nokia publishes Usability eUpdate, a monthly newsletter completely focused on mobile usability and user experience. – June issue – August issue – September issue – October issue – Click here to subscribe. It is developed by the…
Changes brought about by the internet will be dwarfed by those prompted by the networking of everyday objects, says a UN report. The study looks at how the use of electronic tags and sensors could create an “internet of things”.…
A prototype of a cheap and robust laptop for pupils has been welcomed as an “expression of global solidarity” by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The green machine was showcased for the first time by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte at the…