Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Business Week on service prototyping
UX consciousness in business magazines
Josephine Green of Philips on the need for social innovation
Emergence 2007: exploring the boundaries of service design
Low technologies, high aims
The New York Times reports on how M.I.T. has lately turned its attention toward concrete thinking to improve the lives of the poor” “M.I.T. has nurtured dozens of Nobel Prize winners in cerebral realms like astrophysics, economics and genetics. But lately, the institute has turned…
Living Tomorrow
“Concept Design”, a new study from Denmark
The trouble with computers [The Economist]
INDEX: 2007 magazine and website on user-centered design and innovation
User-centered Design & Innovation is the sub-theme of INDEX: 2007, a series of events currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is thoroughly examined during the Copenhagen Prelude Conference, the INDEX:|Aiga Aspen Design Summit and INDEX: SUMMER CAMP, as well as in the INDEX:…
Insights into an ageing society
Destinations straight from internet to your Mercedes
Copenhagen conference about creativity, innovation and co-creation
Co-creation is on the agenda when Copenhagen will be the centre of the world’s prominent specialists within creativity and innovation, reports Copenhagen Capacity. The 10th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, ECCI X is to convene on 14-17 October 2007. Its ambitious goal is to…
Penguin’s user-centred redesign
BBC World Service interviews MIT professor Eric Von Hippel on innovation
In an extended interview, Peter Day of BBC World Service’s Global Business programme talks to Professor Eric Von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology about his revolutionary thinking and what calls the “democratisation of innovation”. The conversation about…
UPA 2008 conference on the many faces of the user experience
UK research firm claims mobile users are turned-off by advanced features
Bruce Sterling writes ‘dispatches from the hyperlocal future’ for Wired Magazine
Why is that thing beeping? A sound design primer
Intuition is losing ground to data mining, a new book claims
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on the challenges of human-centred design
UK research shows that older web users spend more time online than any other group
Design for the other 90% controversy
Design for the Other 90%, the much lauded exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York on how design can address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor and marginalised, has been severely criticised by David Stairs in a hard-hitting…
Europe’s children are internet and mobile savvy and are well aware of the possible risks
A gorgeous cinematic introduction to Turin, Italy
Even for those who don’t understand Italian, this is quite a spectacular introduction to Turin (or “Torino”), Italy, and its surrounding region. The videos are shot in gorgeous high definition quality by the Turin movie director Luciano De Simone and narrated by Carlo Massarini (who…
Latest issue of UPA’s Journal of Usability Studies
Recognising gestures: interface design beyond point-and-click
SAP user experience testing
Intel to customise solutions for the Russian dacha
David Malouf on the foundations of interaction design
Share Award: digital art prize 2008 competition announcement
Book: Interaction Design – beyond human-computer interaction (2nd edition)
Kitchen Budapest, Magyar Telekom’s innovation lab
Magyar Telekom‘s new media lab Kitchen Budapest (KiBu), opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams. Promising…
Standford’s Design and Medical Schools team up on Respira for asthma sufferers
Jeannie Choe reports on Core77 how Stanford University’s Design School and School of Medicine teamed up to create Respira, an extremely affordable device for better asthma care. “In order for asthma inhalers to perform effectively, the discharged medicine must be taken in coordination with a…