Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Technology (general)
55% of potential 3G portal users are lost due to basic usability issues
Users turn their noses up at mobile TV
Ubicomp and user experience at LIFT07
Nicolas Nova, one of the organisers of last week’s LIFT conference, has posted what he calls his “not very well structured thoughts on the LIFT07 talks about ubiquitous computing” on his blog Pasta and Vinegar. “There was a dedicated session…
The human factor in gadget, Web design [CNET News]
Be connected on the go: not anytime – not anywhere [Swisscom Innovations]
Trend: User generated search engine
Ajax vs. page views – web metrics vs. usability [USA Today]
Europe takes lead in Second Life [Reuters]
“Europeans make up the largest block of Second Life residents with more than 54 percent of active users in January ahead of North America’s 34.5 percent, according to new Linden Lab data,” as reported on Reuters/Second Life. “U.S. residents made…
LIFT07: the private is invading the workplace, not the other way around
Toy fair becomes tech fair for kids [Wired News]
Xerox PARC spins off start-up on natural language search [The New York Times]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on literacy and mobile phone design
Illiterate consumers are in many ways lead users for the rest of us, argues Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia, at his presentation at the LIFT conference. A person is literate who can with understanding both read and write a…
Information architecture, meet the enterprise web [CMS Watch]
MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab
The MIT Mobile Experience Lab is a new established research lab within the MIT Design Laboratory. Through its research it aims to radically reinvent and design the connections between people, ideas, physical places and information technologies in order to improve…
Microsoft provides more background on Windows Vista user research
Unfriendly technology is creating a digital divide in the workforce, warns Deloitte [Computing Magazine]
Audio interview with Bill Moggridge on interaction design
Jumping jack flash – new forms of interactions
My Experientia business partner and friend, Jan-Christoph Zoels, is one of the main speakers at LIFT 07, a conference that starts today in Geneva, focused on the “challenges and opportunities of technology in our society”. In his talk tomorrow entitled…