Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
IDEO’s urban pre-planning [Metropolis Magazine]
Samsung’s DigitAll brand magazine on greatness in the digital era
Joined-up experiences [The Guardian]
In a marketplace that offers a bewildering array of hardware, software and services, the company that prioritises ease of use stands a chance of winning, says Jack Schofield in The Guardian. In the article, he compares Apple’s vertical model of integrate to providing digital experiences,…
What is user experience design?
Philips Design magazine on foresighting techniques, health and ‘sensitive’ interactions
Ziba Design on the importance of informed intuition [Fast Company]
User-centred design not so good when designing breakthrough products
Andy Budd on user experience design and user-centred design for the web
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a more systematic approach to experience…
Jakob Nielsen on getting more users to contribute
IBM invests $100 million in usability [CNET News]
Gartner: Prepare for consumer-led IT [CNET News]
Fabrica at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Established in 1994 on the initiative of Luciano Benetton and Oliviero Toscani, Fabrica is a communications research centre whose range of activities extends from graphic design to cinema, taking in industrial design, writing, interactive media, photography and music on the way. Housed in a strikingly…
Video material on experience design
Executive briefing on customer centred innovation
Of tails and walls [International Herald Tribune]
“The old model [of the global marketplace] was one of control,” said Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine and author of the book “The Long Tail“, while he was recently in Paris. “Companies could control the user experience, and they could control the marketplace.” “The…
Interview with Stanford design school director
Customer-centric digital signage in retail environments
“A retail executive who is considering a digital signage system shouldn’t let the tail wag the dog,” writes Peter Vrettas in Extended Retail Solutions. “Content, rather than hardware or software, drives digital signage. And the best digital signage systems are focused on customer-centric content –…
Interview of BT futurologist Ian Pearson
GE’s Kitchen of the Future with more talking refrigerators
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
World Usability Day on 14 November – major event in Milan
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organises on 14 November 2006 its second global World Usability Day, with events in more than one hundred cities around the world. The World Usability Day event in Italy, which is also aimed at a non-specialised audience, will take place…
Denmark’s largest companies launch user-driven innovation academy
Book: Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge
Digital wellbeing and deglamourising choice [WorldChanging]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on connecting the unconnected
Microsoft Home showcases new prototypes of technology for daily living
“As part of its ongoing investments in exploring how software-driven innovations might influence consumers’ lives over the next five to 10 years, Microsoft Corp. recently unveiled a host of new and updated technologies in the Microsoft Home. The latest scenarios on display, highlight prototype devices…
How the human experience drives design at Nokia
Philips: LiveSimplicity
Trendwatching.com on status skills
Philips reveals new design innovations at the 2006 Simplicity Event
2008 World Congress of Architecture in Torino
Futurelab on learning, social software and games
IDEO’s experiential approach
Applied empathy: a design framework for meeting human needs and desires
“The methods most user experience professionals typically use today are, at best, incomplete and, at worst, without any meaningful focus,” writes Dirk Knemeyer in UXMatters. “There is not a successful, established approach and framework for closely linking the real-world needs and desires of our potential…
European versus American innovation
Book: Creativity and the City
Creativity and the City is the title of a new book, edited by Simon Franke and Evert Verhagen, on how the how the creative economy is changing the city, particularly in the Netherlands. “The creative class and the creative city are two notions which have…