Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Where artists and inventors plot to save the world [The New York Times]
Design led futures
New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers [International Herald Tribune]
About a year and a half ago I wrote about Zopa, a P2P banking service in the UK, and therefore a potentially disruptive innovation in the financial services sector. The International Herald Tribune has meanwhile discovered it as well: A Web site based in Britain,…
New USA Today website is all about social networking
Nokia Research on new potentials for car sharing
Mobile communication, a professional social network for mobile society researchers
Social networking’s next phase [The New York Times]
Venture philanthropy fund uses design thinking and ethnography to help solve real-world problems [Business Week]
Billing itself as a nonprofit venture capital firm, the Acumen Fund uses the principles of design to solve the problems of the poor. Just as the Procter & Gambles and Motorolas of the corporate world conduct extensive ethnographic research on consumers, Acumen finances companies that…
GE’s user-friendly healthcare concepts for Africa [Business Week]
GE Healthcare sells $15 billion a year worth of big X-ray machines, CAT scans, and ultrasound testing equipment. The healthcare division of General Electric (GE ) usually differentiates its products by getting better and faster readings from its instruments—”feeds and speeds,” as Lou Lenzi, the…
A participatory conference model at NESTA, London
The face of the $100 laptop [Business Week]
Business Week features a long story on Sugar, the breakthrough graphical user interface on the so-called $100 laptop. User testing only started this February when about 2500 beta test machines were shipped to beta testing countries, an approach that received a lot of criticism. “The…
Nathan Shedroff on making meaning [Core77]
International Herald Tribune on user interface design
KPMG on how digital media are affecting work, play and relationships across Europe
Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 [BBC]
Sacred tech [Business Week]
When I met Ranjit Makkuni now over five years ago at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I became immediately mesmerised by his approach to technology and culture and the work he has been doing. This has only grown since. Makkuni is not only building bridges…
Business Week on user-driven innovation
Ethnographic research informs Intel’s Mobile Clinical Assistant
Cinema 2.0 project in Turin
New network for user-driven innovation in Denmark
A network of companies, designers, researchers and organisations are joining forces to write a script covering user-driven innovation. The purpose is that in the future, other players may utilise the pilot project’s experiences, writes Denmark’s daily business paper Børsen (and made available in English through…
Indian lawmakers caught in Web 2.0 [India Times]
“The virtual (internet) network of people has always been a problem for [Indian] lawmakers,” reports Ritwik Donde in Infotech, an online technology news source of the India Times. “One of the problem with internet has been that it is impossible to control or censor it.…
A focus on user-driven innovation in the Nordic region
User experience at Oracle
Usability found wanting on web-only news sites [The Guardian]
Social networking for 9-year olds [Newsweek]
Envisioning the whole digital person [UX Matters]
Excellent feature article by Jonathan Follett in UX Matters: “Our lives are becoming increasingly digitised—from the ways we communicate, to our entertainment media, to our e-commerce transactions, to our online research. As storage becomes cheaper and data pipes become faster, we are doing more and…
Users who know too much [CIO Magazine]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on understanding alternative scenarios for the future
Today is International Slow Day
The mash-up future of the web [BBC News]
Donald Norman’s new book: “The Design of Future Things”
Advanced programme of CHI 2007 available
The CHI 2007 organisers have published an “advanced programme” of the conference, which will take place 28 April – 3 May in San Jose, California. Some highlights: Opening plenary: “Reaching for the intuitive” by Bill MoggridgeBill will attempt to show how design thinking can harnesses…
Usability to the people
Videos of “Digital, Life, Design” conference online
High technology meets cultural anthropology: Dr Genevieve Bell
Demanding Innovation: Lead markets, public procurement and innovation
Uploading innovation, a NESTA event
Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred toy company by involving their users to an extreme degree. He also states…