C-Mine, creativity as a tool to transform a former Belgian mining area
Searching for a mobile interface [BBC]
Designing for interaction: an interview with Dan Saffer [AIGA Voice]
Future-making serious games
Experience Design: Principles and Practices
The dashboard as metaphor for the next wave in technological culture
Couple-surfing to enhance cyber-love [Reuters]
Putting People First official blogger of the European Market Research Event 2006
Book: The Necessity of Experience
Digital diversity – the end game?
David Gyimah, a video journalist and the director of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC), has written a thought-provoking article on the future of diversity in the rapidly developing world of the net and connected mobile devices. “If the net becomes, as it is demonstrated,…
The friendly face of business software [Business Week]
The new simplicity at Philips [Business Week]
Poverty-stricken Rwanda puts its faith and future into the wide wired world [The Guardian]
Rwanda’s Vision 2020 project aims to rapidly transform a depressed agricultural economy into one driven by information communications and technology (ICT). If it works, the percentage of Rwanda’s workforce involved in farming will drop from 90% to 50% in 15 years. By then the country…
E-mail losing ground to IM, text messaging [Associated Press]
Advertising 2.0 [International Herald Tribune]
Talk to our customers? Are you crazy? [Fast Company]
The brand underground [The New York Times]
Aging in the 21st century [The New York Times]
Techno Tots – why computer savvy users are getting younger and younger [BBC]
What is the 1% rule? [The Guardian]
Espressamente, Illy’s cult coffee bar [Business Week]
Italian coffee maker Illy is out to conquer the “last frontier” – the coffee bar. By rolling out a global chain of licensed cafes called “Espressamente,” Illy intends not only to sell more of its high-quality coffee, but to purvey the original Italian cult of…
Experientia talk: “Innovation in Museum Design” by Arch. Stephen Rustow
Homo Conexus
Experientia partner leads new media workshop in Canada
Ruthless focus on the customer [Business Week]
New European interaction design institute
Brand experience in user experience design [UX Matters]
Britons ‘dependent on mobile use’ [BBC]
Saving the world, one video game at a time [New York Times]
Washers and dryers air messages to PCs, TVs, phones [Associated Press]
Former Experientia intern Janina Boesch wins 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Award
Whatever happened to… the smartphone? [The Register]
Revealing the source code of the creative mind [Wired Magazine]
Business Week special report on tech toys
Kitchen cabinet: new ideas for connecting people and politicians
Whirlpool tests “smart” washers and dryers
Real Time Rome: MIT reveals Rome’s live traffic info via mobile phones
Don Norman’s case for activity-centred design
In a column written for Interactions Magazine, Donald Norman argues that human-centred designers should not just create clever taxonomies, but also task-onomies. “Many of the design tools used by the Human-Centered Design community lead to well-structured, carefully organized designs, often using powerful card-sorting and hierarchical…