Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Online marketers shift focus to user experience – new report
UXmatters July 2007 issue
Five new articles in the July 2007 issue of UXmatters, the user experience web magazine: Your design is infringing on my patent: the case against user interface and interaction model patents and intellectual property By Paul J. Sherman “Despite what the intellectual property lawyers and…
Unlocking Innovation – why citizens hold the key to public service reform
From climate change to social care, innovation will be critical to meeting the public service challenges of the future. But traditional approaches to generating new ideas will not be enough. Rather than focusing on processes and pipelines, policymakers and service deliverers needs to harness the…
IBM says healthcare is “driving under the influence of terrible interfaces”
Cameron Sinclair’s Open Architecture Network [Business Week]
Like AdSense, which has given Madison Avenue executives the collective jitters, the Open Architecture Network (OAN) suggests that 2.0’s cocktail of collaborative technologies can have an equally radical influence on business and industry practices. In the case of the OAN, the industry in question is…
Donald Norman on the next UI breakthroughs
A user experience conversation on NextD
Jackson Fish Market – handcrafted software experiences
Jackson Fish Market, with the tagline “Handcrafted Software Experiences,” in November 2006. “In their introductory blog post, co-founder Hillel Cooperman talks about his grandfather’s fish store, Jackson Fish, a “small businesses was run by family, with everyone pitching in as best they could” and which…
The New York Times “introducing” the usability professional
Finland moves towards ubiquitous information society
Philips Design on experiencing experience design
European designers to meet in World Design Capital to promote usability and design
(Bloomingdale, IL: July 6, 2007) – The first European regional conference of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) will take place in Torino, Italy, named the 2008 World Design Capital. Hundreds of designers and usability specialists are expected to attend. “The UPA Europe 2008 conference provides…
Involving end-users in the design of medical devices
Peter Greenaway and the Savoy experience
The Nokia “observe and design” brand slide show
New Core77 article series more sophisticated than ever
Business Week on John Thackara’s sustainable design approach and what business is learning from it
Recent stories on the Turin 2008 World Design Capital website
A few months ago Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken started doing some writing for the Turin 2008 World Design Capital website, and will continue to do so until the end of 2008. The site has just been refreshed with an interview with Marie-Josée Lacroix, design commissioner…
Nicolas Nova in Turin
Nicolas Nova, Swiss Federal Research Institute (CH) Designing a new ecology of mixed digital and physical environments 12 July 2007 – 7pm Order of Architects of the Province of Turin via G. Giolitti 1 – Torino – 3rd floor Nicolas Nova will give a…
Nicolas Nova lectures in Turin, Italy – 12 July
Timo Veikkola (Nokia) on a vision of the future
Jyske, the Danish experience bank
78 steps to configure email on a Nokia 3G phone
Innovative service design concepts in the US
The vision deficit
The shape of things to come has never been so inadequately imagined. Peter Lunenfeld suggests that designers can overcome the vision deficit by taking on the future as a client, in an article published on Adobe Design Center’s Think Tank, a series of in-depth articles…
Motion presence – a Motorola field study on sharing motion information
Alcatel-Lucent’s Alex and Lucie on user-centric experience
Motorola ethnographic research on shared experiences to inform ICT innovation
Carphone Warehouse study on the role of mobile phones in our daily lives
Portable objects in three global cities: the personalisation of urban places
With Daisuke Okabe and Ken Anderson. Draft of a chapter forthcoming in Rich Ling and Scott Campbell Eds., The Mobile Communication Research Annual Volume 1: The Reconstruction of Space & Time through Mobile Communication Practices. Transaction Books. Mizuko Ito reports on her blog that a…
Yaniv Steiner launches Wikipedia in Second Life
Brunel University in the UK opens user-centred design centre
Intel exec calls for user-centred design of healthcare IT
On the ground running: Lessons from experience design
The Slow Home movement
Audio interview with Johannes Vandermeulen of Namahn
Jyri Engeström on the future of participatory media
Matt Jones, former UX director at Nokia, now moving to BBC and Dopplr
Improving the retail customer’s experience when clothes shopping
Last month I posted a story on a smart dressing room trial at New York’s Bloomingdale’s, reported in the New York Times. Meanwhile the San Jose Mercury News provides some more depth on the prototype and introduces another one. “A New York technology company called…