Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Whirlpool’s in.home project
The future of the internet [Red Herring]
Senior citizens not big users of cell phones, even for emergencies
Alarm over shopping radio tags [BBC]
Vodafone online magazine on mobile phones and the yearning factor
New report on the relationship between teens, technology and society
HP targets “next billion customers” with technologies for growing economies
HP yesterday announced new technologies, created by researchers in HP Labs India, which are designed to help grow opportunities in rapidly expanding economies. The technologies, which primarily focus on India but also address markets in China, Russia and Brazil, are designed to adapt to the…
Design for patient safety
Disney offers teen-tracker mobile [BBC]
Mobile phone user experience hampered by contradictory shell and ghosts
EU Commissioner advocates user-centred design and citizen-centric services
Newsweek cover story on Web 2.0
Designing for the base of the pyramid
Design for the Base of the Pyramid is an initiative by the IIT Institute of Design “to develop human-centered design strategies and concepts for new products, services and businesses capable of generating sustainable economic improvement in the lives of people living in the vast base…
Smart Cities 2020 [Metropolis Magazine]
Design revelations from Shanghai [Business Week]
For the last 10 years, the state of mainstream design in China has approximated the first stage of design in the U.S., writes Patrick Whitney in a Business Week column. Consumers in the emerging mass market are gravitating toward products and messages that represent a…
In a wired South Korea, robots will feel right at home [The New York Times]
Making the New York Times online experience simpler and more useful
How Americans use their cell phones [Pew / Internet]
Xerox center studies ways to make products easier to use [Rochester Democrat & Chronicle]
Philips shows product concepts designed with users [Reuters]
Improve usability for older users
Lifestyle design: a new profession
Intel launches Community PC for India
Intel Corporation just launched an innovative PC platform that has been developed exclusively to meet the needs of rural villages and communities in India. Designed as a result of defining locally relevant computing solutions based on Intel technology, the Intel-powered “Community PC†platform is equipped…
UK government web sites fail accessibility tests [BBC]
Palm got it right ten years ago. So why are we still suffering?
Transitioning to a new model of healthcare
Daily Fix, a new MarketingProfs blog
New design research wiki site
Forms and function, design in the public sector [Design Council]
Creativity and innovation development in business schools [Business Week]
The surveillance society
We Media: creating a better-informed society by collaborating with one another
The WE Media Global Forum is a conference that brings together “the trailblazers of the connected society – the thinkers, innovators, investors, executives and activists seeking to tap the potential of digital networks connecting people everywhere”, or in short “how to create a better-informed society…
Forbes special report on communicating
What you’ll wear in 10 years [Wired Magazine | Forbes]
Open up or shut up. The necessity of open marketing [Always On]
Open marketing assumes your customers are smarter than you, at every stage of the business process, from product build to post-sale service. "We have embarked on the maiden voyage of the open marketing revolution. From RSS to blogs, from podcasts to social networks, companies have…