Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Social scientists studying human interaction in online worlds
Mapmaking for the masses, online
Former Experientia intern, designer on Pentagram Design project that just won prestigious IDEA award
Former Experientia intern Nina Boesch was the designer and programmer (under the creative lead of Lisa Strausfeld) on Pentagram Design‘s “Interactive model of Lower Manhattan” that just won an Industrial Design Excellence Award. Co-sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America, the…
A well-designed search engine for academic/scientific papers
Explaining the semantic web in plain English
Nokia Trends Lab
Slidecasting – improving the online slide presentation experience
Using design games
BMW reports on the secret life of cars
Trabber, the simple flight search engine
Young keep it simple in high-tech world
“And now for something entirely different…”
Rich ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities
The UK Department for Development has published a long study, written by a number of researchers from British and Australian Universities, about the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in low-income communities in Jamaica, India, South Africa and Ghana. The Australian…
Nicolas Nova talk now on Google Video
Research on smartphones and the work-life balance
User-driven innovation in Denmark and Finland
Describing the spiritual experience
User experience for OpenOffice.org
The German interaction designer Matthias Müller-Prove is the co-lead on the user experience project of OpenOffice.org and has just published an article about his activities. Open source software (OSS) is a paradigm for developing software in a non-proprietary fashion by leveraging virtual communities of independent…
Firms snub ‘mobile for elderly’
Designing for deterioration
Barcelona_London: comparing, contrasting and challenging two urban success stories
Today the UK think tank Demos launches a new collection of essays produced with Catalan think tank Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas comparing and contrasting the two urban success stories of London and Barcelona. The report, called BCN_LDN 2020, explores how London and Barcelona can reflect…
John Maeda interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation
Citizen media: a progress report
Publicly funded culture and the creative industries
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design launches with pilot Masters programme
Revolutionising prosthetics through user-centred design
Nokia’s view of the future – trends research, ethnography and design
Timo Veikkola, senior future specialist at Nokia, has just written an article for usability magazine uiGarden to expand on his vision of our future – already alluded to during his presentation at the PSFK conference just a few weeks ago. “Many shifts in society and…