Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Nokia design director on emerging markets
Antti Kujala, a design director at Nokia’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, spearheaded Nokia’s strategy and design development. He spoke to Nandini Lakshman of Business Week in New Delhi about the nuances of designing for emerging markets and about future mobile design trends. An excerpt: What…
What does “user value” mean?
User experience and the analysts
Cultural differences in the emotional experience
Marco van Hout asks in a long article for uiGarden.net whether there is something like a common ’emotional experience’. “In my opinion, the answer to this question is two-fold. First of all, people share basic emotional reactions and basic human needs. This makes us all…
Jakob Nielsen: the web design guru that web designers love to hate
Five new experience design-related interviews by Adaptive Path
What’s new in participatory design with Liz SandersLiz Sanders (UX Week conference page) is the president of MakeTools, a design research company that focuses on collaborative creativity about the participatory process and it’s impact on design. Liz has worked across a variety of mediums, including…
Downloading wisdom from online crowds
Turin 2008 on Italian slow design, Irish design innovation and doing good
Second thoughts on Second Life
Jesse James Garrett interview on usability and user experience
Technology turns library science from spinster to suddenly sexy
Fing: the next generation internet foundation from France
For some time now I have been following the French innovation blog Internet Actu, not realising that it was part of a bigger initiative called “Fing“. Fing stands for “Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération”, or the the next generation internet foundation, aimed at stimulating and promoting…
How feature creep ruined the moleskine city notebook
Breaking down the walls of phones’ web gardens
PDF prototypes: mistakenly disregarded and underutilised
BT futurologist predicts the real and virtual merging
‘Game School’ aims to engage and educate
Social networks affecting health
What’s good for a business can be hard on friends
Mobile providers claim to support social networks, but then actually hinder them in practice, as shown in this example from the US market (reported in The New York Times). In the US, T-Mobile is the exception with MyFaves allowing to call for a fixed fee…
As the vision fades, the indignities grow
Peter Morville on “Ambient Findability and The Future of Search”
Peter Morville, widely recognised as a founding father of information architecture, spoke in June 2007 at Google TechTalks on “Ambient Findability and The Future of Search” (video online). At the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, the user experience is out of control, and…
Jared Spool on “The Dawning of the Age of Experience”
Ambient Devices releases two smart and practical everyday products
What patients want
eBay’s Meg Whitman on improving the finding and auction experience
Central role for co-creation and ethnography at new Nokia design studio in Bangalore
Nokia’s new design studio in Bangalore, India, will use co-creation and ethnographic approaches to explore new design ideas for mobile phones targeted at the Indian market. InfoWorld reports: The studio in India is one of four satellite studios that Nokia plans to set up over…
New Virgin planes take user experience up a notch
Promoting user-centred design innovation in Ireland
Management guru C.K. Prahalad and the experience of the teddy bear
In an article in the Dutch language Voka Tribune (Voka is the professional association of companies in Flanders, Belgium), management guru C.K. Prahalad talks about the importance of co-creating experiences, starting from the Build the Bear example. Since the article is not available in English,…
“My New Leg”
TI working with end-users to design their perfect product
The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0
For better or worse, adults learn to say it with emoticons
Bill Gates on natural user interfaces
Web special on factors that make a city great
A large chunk of the latest issue of Monocle magazine on the 20 most liveable cities in the world is freely available via the International Herald Tribune. All the content is linked from the introductory article “Urban Manifesto: Factors that make a city great” by…