Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
UK Design Council launches Design Factfinder to demonstrate the value of design for business
RFID: Frequency, standards, adoption and innovation
Why “humane” might be a better word than “usable”
Banks creating a better branch experience
Experience things before they exist [The Economist]
Nokia design director describes second stage of mobile communications
This afternoon Nokia’s Design Director Marko Ahtisaari talked about “Mobile 2.0: Social Renaissance†at Reboot 8.0 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In his talk, which is summarised by Nicolas Nova on Pasta & Vinegar, Ahtisaari described the second stage of mobile communication. The mobile industry today has…
Latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine devoted to usability in Pacific Rim
The latest issue of User Experience (UX) Magazine, published by the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA), is devoted to “usability around the Pacific Rim”. Zhengjie Liu writes about usability and user-centered design practice in China, Cindy Lu discusses the opportunities for the usability community there, and…
Technology leaves teens speechless [USA Today]
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for exams. This was the topic…
Ethnographic study of robotic products in the home
International Herald Tribune to carry stories written by members of the public
The International Herald Tribune, the global newspaper owned by the New York Times, is to carry stories written by members of the public, writes The Guardian. A deal with a South Korean news website, OhmyNews International, could see so-called “citizen journalists” appearing alongside established writers.…
B2B sites have far worse user experience than consumer sites [Forbes Magazine]
Ecosystems and product innovation
The rise of crowdsourcing [Wired Magazine]
Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Just as distributed computing projects like UC Berkeley’s SETI@home have tapped…
Social networking goes mobile [Business Week]
Clothes make a statement electronically [Christian Science Monitor]
The science of desire [Business Week]
Ten potential pitfalls of participatory design methods
Jeff Axup writes in his blog Mobile Community Design about ten potential pitfalls in the application of participatory design methods. “Participatory design (PD) is a design framework and related methods which advocate user involvement in design, and a political stance advocating worker rights. It originated…
Cultural anthropologist Mizuko Ito on kids’ participation in new media culture
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Mizuko Ito recently published a draft about kids’ participation in new media culture, reports Nicolas Nova in Pasta & Vinegar. The paper, entitled “Mobilizing the Imagination in Everday Play: The Case of Japanese Media Mixes”, addresses the question of how young people…
Just give me a simple phone [Associated Press]
The New York Times on brand co-creation
Experientia partner publishes Italian book on web site usability
User-centered innovation at Intel [Electronic Business]
In a three-part special report of Electronic Business, Herman D’Hooge, innovation strategist in the User-Centered Platform Solutions Division at Intel, explains how a company can use a user-centered innovation process to engineer and develop innovative products. D’Hooge also gives an example of a product—China Home…
Mobile devices: smaller, smarter and still usable?
Co-creation and the one-percenters
MIT is to make Denmark world champion in user driven innovation
User-generated future for gaming [BBC]
Roger Martin on designing decisions
In this interview, Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management (the University of Toronto’s business school) explains why managers need to learn how to think like designers, and why all design is really decision design. The interview was published on the website of…
At museums: invasion of the podcasts [New York Times]
Designing politics – the politics of design
With a commitment to conducting a discourse on the social responsibility of the designer and defining the democratic quality of design, the International Design Forum (IFG) Ulm, Germany announces its public call for project proposals addressing the topic of the relationship design-politics. According to IFG…