Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Internet users transformed into news reporters [AFP]
User research in a different world
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan [AP]
Yuri Kageyama (blog), AP Business writer, reports: Visit Japan’s top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong “Mixi,” and you’ll see prim, organised columns and boxes of stamp-size photos – not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The difference in appearance between the…
10 TouchPoints: design for everyday life in Singapore
The Economist on the end of the cash era
Adaptive Path president takes aim at Jakob Nielsen
Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME)
Designing engaging mobile experiences
Glossary of social media for non-techies
Anne Kirah: “When culture meets technology and when technology meets culture”
Anne Kirah, until recently Senior Design Anthropologist at the Microsoft Corporation, spoke recently about her experience in developing software user interfaces that are based on local cultural conditions. The 50 minute talk, which can be seen in video stream, was held on 30 January at…
Belgium’s i-City project tests mobile applications with thousands of users
55% of potential 3G portal users are lost due to basic usability issues
Users turn their noses up at mobile TV
Ubicomp and user experience at LIFT07
Nicolas Nova, one of the organisers of last week’s LIFT conference, has posted what he calls his “not very well structured thoughts on the LIFT07 talks about ubiquitous computing” on his blog Pasta and Vinegar. “There was a dedicated session about it with Julian Bleecker,…
Kids, the internet and the end of privacy: the greatest generation gap since rock and roll [New York Magazine]
The human factor in gadget, Web design [CNET News]
Be connected on the go: not anytime – not anywhere [Swisscom Innovations]
Trend: User generated search engine
Ajax vs. page views – web metrics vs. usability [USA Today]
Europe takes lead in Second Life [Reuters]
“Europeans make up the largest block of Second Life residents with more than 54 percent of active users in January ahead of North America’s 34.5 percent, according to new Linden Lab data,” as reported on Reuters/Second Life. “U.S. residents made up only 31.2 percent of…
LIFT07: the private is invading the workplace, not the other way around
Demos project on user-led service design in local authorities
Toy fair becomes tech fair for kids [Wired News]
Xerox PARC spins off start-up on natural language search [The New York Times]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on literacy and mobile phone design
Illiterate consumers are in many ways lead users for the rest of us, argues Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia, at his presentation at the LIFT conference. A person is literate who can with understanding both read and write a short simple statement on his…
Co-leader of IDEO’s Consumer Experience Design Practice on how design can drive growth
Information architecture, meet the enterprise web [CMS Watch]
MIT’s Mobile Experience Lab
The MIT Mobile Experience Lab is a new established research lab within the MIT Design Laboratory. Through its research it aims to radically reinvent and design the connections between people, ideas, physical places and information technologies in order to improve peoples’ life through meaningful experiences.…
Microsoft provides more background on Windows Vista user research
Unfriendly technology is creating a digital divide in the workforce, warns Deloitte [Computing Magazine]
Condé Nast Italy launches Style.it portal, based on Experientia input
Condé Nast Italy launched today Style.it, a fashion, lifestyle and entertainment portal for the young Italian woman. The new portal upgrades the existing and very popular Vogue/Vanity and Glamour websites. During the concept development and design of the portal, Experientia was intensely involved in providing…
Want to know your readers? Better go and live with them [The Independent]
Audio interview with Bill Moggridge on interaction design
From Experience to Identity–The New Paradigm
Brands are inside-out, user experience is outside-in
Jumping jack flash – new forms of interactions
My Experientia business partner and friend, Jan-Christoph Zoels, is one of the main speakers at LIFT 07, a conference that starts today in Geneva, focused on the “challenges and opportunities of technology in our society”. In his talk tomorrow entitled “Jumping jack flash – new…