Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
“T-shaped” thought key to innovation [The Korea Times]
Why have Korean companies failed to create such iconic devices as Apple Computer’s iPod or Motorola’s RAZR despite their technological prowess, asks staff reporter Kim Tae-gyu in The Korea Times. “The answer by the LG Economic Research Institute to this crucial question is that Korean…
Goodbye Gutenberg: a Harvard special on newspaper and journalism in the digital age
IBM launches MySpace-like tools for companies [International Herald Tribune]
The user experience practitioner as change agent [UX Matters]
Interaction Design Institute for rent
We need macrodesigners, says Uday Dandavate
Experience designers work in the retail industry, says Fast Company
Experience designers are top of the list in Fast Company’s overview of the “10 Hot Jobs for 2007”. We are also positioned as people who work in the retail industry. The list, which has been compiled with trend forecasters, “takes a look at 10 of…
Nokia Research on Uganda’s Village Phone initiative
Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research are on a roll. Following a July 2006 field study in Uganda, and previous presentations on shared phone practices and street charging services, they now explored the Village Phone initiative between the Grameen Foundation, Nokia and local…
Nokia presents video scenarios of the future
Governments should focus on connectivity, content and copyright to support user-generated content
World Economic Forum briefing materials
Interview with LIFT 07 conference organisers
Convivio, the European network for human-centred design of interactive technologies, has published an interview with Laurent Haug and Nicolas Nova, two of the organisers of LIFT 07, a conference that will be held in Geneva on February 7-9 2007, focused on the “challenges and opportunities…
User centered design at Sony
2-year course on design for retail experience at India’s National Institute of Design
“With new malls and retail outlets mushrooming all across [India], thanks to the retail boom, it’s no wonder then that the National Institute of Design (NID) has come up with a unique course called Design for Retail Experience“, writes Kumar Anand in the Ahmedabad section…
ThingM: channelling boundless data into specific user experiences
Bruce Tognazzini on the iPhone user experience
Corporate intranets apply Web 2.0 for user benefits, reports Nielsen Norman Group
Intranets typically avoid the over-hyped fads that wash across the Web, according to usability expert Jakob Nielsen, whose research firm Nielsen Norman Group today announced the winners of its seventh annual intranet design contest. This year, rather than avoid the Internet fads, including social networking…
SAP launches new All-in-One version [CIO]
Massive Change and the City
In conjunction with the Massive Change exhibit that recently ended in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the City of Chicago Department of the Environment organised a one-day symposium that brought together experts in urbanization, energy, evolution, information, wealth and politics. The symposium explored…
Book: Informing Digital Futures – Strategies for Citizen Engagement
Customer-centered experience design: creating loyalty in an experience economy
NUWeb: A project for Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user!
The user experience scene in China
Amit Pande, who manages Oracle’s User Experience practice in Bangalore, wrote an interesting post about his impressions of the user experience scene in China. “First, let me start with saying that like many others in the technology & design space, I had also let some…
Nokia research on street charging services in Uganda
Uganda is a country coping with a severe energy crisis resulting in frequent power cuts. In addition, access to mains electricity in rural locations is limited. Given that mobile phones require power, and access to power can be unpredictable – how do people keep their…
Social media making inroads at USA’s fastest growing companies
UK think tank Demos on education for a digital generation
User experience software
First thoughts on the user experience of Apple’s iPhone
Comparing the user experience of Windows Vista and Mac OS X
Torino 2008: design is direction
Enlarging the Davos Conversation
The World Economic Forum will be using new Web applications to extend the discussions at the Annual Meeting 2007 (Davos, Switzerland, 24-28 January – summary programme) to a much wider audience. Held under the theme Shaping the Global Agenda: The Shifting Power Equation, the debates…
Human-centred design at GE’s health-care unit [Business Week]
Business Week writes about how GE’s health-care unit went to design students at the Art Center College of Design for out-of-the-box ideas that are focused on people rather than technology, take a systems approach to problem solving, and are culturally specific. Together they set out…