Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Experientia, the Turin-based user experience design company, has created a new and innovative international website for the Max Mara brand. It’s online. www.maxmara.com is the address of the new Max Mara website, historical Made in Italy fashion brand, based in…
Nicolas Nova reports on the “networked objects†session at Lift Asia 09. Speakers were Rafi Haladjian (in transition from Violet to his new company called sen.se), Adrian David Cheok (from the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore and Keio University) and…
The New Scientist reviews the current state of Augmented Reality and is a bit concerned: “While some who back the technology think its time has now come, after more than a decade in development, others warn that undercooked applications…
Too many emails, texts and tweets can lead to rising anxiety, lower intelligence – and a generation of BlackBerry orphans. Paul Hemp reports in The Guardian. “With the information floodgates open, content rushes at us in countless formats: text messages…
Canada’s International Development Research Center and Harvard’s Berkman Center convened a conversation at Harvard yesterday on the future of information and communication technology and development (ICT4D). Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Michael Spence joined Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts…
Tomorrow I will be speaking at an informal, but high energy Paris conference, called (somewhat predictably) Paris 2.0. The conference takes a total of four days, and is attended by a young, edgy French crowd. I am unfortunately only here…
Luke Wroblewski, an internationally recognized Web thought leader and Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., provides a comprehensive overview of augmentation as a user interface, complete with real-world examples. “Though many computer applications and operating systems…
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains a lengthy interview with Donald Norman: “Long live the body, the physical world, reality. The world of…
Louis Rosenfeld alerted me to two new Ning-based community sites that Rosenfeld Media authors recently started: Design for Care compiles methods, results, case studies, and research from many healthcare contexts to help designers understand and improve healthcare products and…
One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen Foundation has launched an initiative to determine how best to use mobile phones to increase…
This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium, which featured over twenty presenters, was structured in six sessions — Redefining Roles, Policy Perspectives, Enabling Technologies,…
Archana Rai of LiveMint.com, the online edition of Mint, an Indian partner publication of the Wall Street Journal, has interviewed Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research. In the interview, Churchill explains how in her present position as principal research scientist at…
Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer for Clearleft, discusses how people form mental models of urban environments, and how technology can augment and even replace our wayfinding skills. The article was published on Johnny Holland and is an extract from…
On July 27, 2009, National Public Radio (NPR) relaunched the website www.npr.org through the efforts of its in-house design team and interactive agency Schematic. Senior interaction designer Neylan describes the massive task in a case study written for AIGA. “NPR…
In a two-part podcast Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow and Director of the User Experience Group, discusses the intersection of technology and society, with a special focus on the social media explosion and worldwide technology adoption. Listen to podcast: part 1…
The Wall Street Journal looks at the rise of alternative currencies: “The weak dollar. A Federal Reserve constantly being second-guessed. It’s times like these when talk inevitably turns to alternative or complementary currencies. While local currencies have come and gone,…
Jamais Cascio argues on Fast Company that, as our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. “The real shift comes when we move away from direct interaction…
A recent article by Nita Rollins on DMI’s Digital Management Review: “As the Web has matured, brand relationships have become ever more dynamic. Nita Rollins outlines and illustrates the kinds of digital brand experiences consumers have come to expect–on-demand efficiency…
Eva Hornecker explains on interaction-design.org the evolving concept of Tangible Interaction. “Broadly, Tangible Interaction encompasses user interfaces and interaction approaches that emphasize – tangibility and materiality of the interface – physical embodiment of data – whole-body interaction – the…
Jonathan Donner, a researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India, has submitted a paper — together with Shikoh Gitau and Gary Marsden — on first-time mobile internet use in South Africa to the upcoming (3rd)…