Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the international UX consultancy
Niklas Zennström, the internet entrepreneur behind both Kazaa and Skype, spoke to BBC Click Online about how his two inventions came about, and how broadband and wireless devices are shaping his vision for the future. Read full story
Dan Saffer reports in his blog on a talk on service design by Mark Jones, head of service design for IDEO Chicago.
A particularly thorough and insightful article on how the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), based as it is on 19th and early 20th century paradigms, is coping with a changing world. It analyses the simple question raised by Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo: has…
A collaboration between the Department of Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Architecture Venice (IUAV), the project uses video-equipped cell phones, PDAs, and location-based technology to deliver multimedia walking tours of lesser-known Venetian neighborhoods. The mobile information system will…
This week, the International Telecommunication Union unveiled the Connect the World initiative, with the double goal to push “digital divide” issues to the top of worldwide policy agendas and to connect all communities worldwide by 2015. Founding members include Alcatel of France, the Japanese operator…
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del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add web pages you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only among your own browsers and machines, but also with…
The future office will be increasingly mobile, with technology enabling employees to perform their jobs from virtually anywhere, according to Office of the Future: 2020, a research study recently released by OfficeTeam. But greater control over where and how people work won’t necessarily translate…
Italy’s urban vision is not what you think.
The Mediterranean Social Forum opens today in Barcelona. The Spanish city hosts some 280 events, including conferences, seminars, workshops, devoted to the promotion of a public space for communication within the Mediterranean coasts. Since its creation the Forum has opened up new horizons of discussion,…
NextDesign Leadership Institute aims at helping design educators and practicing professionals meet the challenges of cross-disciplinary design and innovation leadership. The latest issue of their journal addresses the role of design journalism in creating the future of design.
The ‘One Planet Living’ concept is aimed at building flagship sustainable communities around the world, including one in London’s Thames Gateway. The community is intended to be built within easy reach of the capital and will be the first zero-carbon, zero-waste community in the UK,…
Raid on Deerfield set out to do with a virtual exhibit that which would be almost impossible in a conventional museum setting: to simultaneously communicate five different cultural perspectives of the same historical event in a comprehensible manner.Read full story
Password is the name of the quarterly magazine of Philips Research. The latest issue is devoted to ambient intelligence and experience design and is now available online. See also this interview with Emile Aarts, vice-president of Philips Research on ambient intelligence and the experience economy.
Only a fifth of big corporations have formal crisis-management plans. In the phrase of the sociologist Neil Weinstein, we are “unrealistic optimists†and tend to have trouble taking seriously those events with a low probability but a high cost. In other words, the very…
Rey Ramsey’s mission of social change starts with the home and leads to the Web. Read full story
The June 2005 issue of Fast Company is entirely devoted to the design. Click on the title of this post to get a full overview or read one of the selected features below. – Strategy by design (IDEO) – The power of design – What…
[…] There is a certain correspondence between Microsoft’s research agenda and the work of the old-time anthropologists, many of whom were funded by colonial governments that needed to understand their native subjects in order to rule them more effectively. The modern version of this knowledge-power…
At Intel, which wasn’t used to having a direct relationship with its end users, the challenges for an anthropologist were not simple. Read full story
The official blog for the Future of Work Community, a membership organisation of HR, IT and facilities professionals. Go to blog
Thomas Friedman’s influential book The World is Flat has been strongly critisised for its bias, simplicity and sloppiness: – The Daily Telegraph (Robert Hanks) – The Daily Telegraph (Noel Malcolm) – The Economist – The Guardian – The Hindu – The Independent – The Nation…
The Participation Age is all about access, built on a model of networked human beings who share, interact, and solve problems, via telephone, internet, and a myriad of other ways of connecting. Their participation creates ideas, information, opportunities, and value-social and economic-everywhere on the network.…
The people who make films, TV and music are trying to work out how to survive in a digital era where the consumer is in control. This was the predominant theme at a conference on the future of digital content held at the Institute of…
The city of Milan is the most wired-up city in Europe, but also Barcelona is very high up in the list, a survey carried out by Milan Chamber of Commerce shows. Read full story
Frontline is the name of America’s best investigative journalism TV programme. It is produced by PBS and fifty of its in-depth reports can now be viewed in streaming video. (Scrolling over the title brings up a short summary, clicking on it gives you even more…
With more than 1 billion cellphones in circulation around the world, the questions of how, when and why people use them have turned from matters of curiosity and conversation into serious subjects of academic research. Read full story
Biomimetics: Engineers are increasingly taking a leaf out of nature’s book when looking for solutions to design problems. Read full story
The first serious attempt to build a computer model of the brain has just begun. Read full story
Last week was not a great time to unveil a new pan-European initiative. Yet the programme is an important source of funding for IT-based innovations in public services. It is aimed not at putting services online (most already are) but in encouraging people to…
Bangalore is entering a mature new phase as a technology centre, starting to produce its own high-tech products, research, venture capital firms and start-ups. “The ecosystem for innovation is now starting to be created here,” said Nandan Nilekani, the chief executive of Infosys. Increasingly, Western…
TakingITGlobal.org is a global online community, providing youth with inspiration to make a difference, a source of information on issues, opportunities to take action, and a bridge to get involved locally, nationally and globally. TakingITGlobal – which works with UN agencies, corporations and youth organisations…
During the last five months, I have been working intensively with Michelangelo Pistoletto and the staff of his foundation, Cittadellarte, on a clearer definition of Cittadellarte’s core identity, which had become a little diffuse after several years of fast growth in its activities. The organisation…
The main topic in March 2005 was a mid-term review of the ongoing Lisbon agenda, which could lead to a reform of the whole process. It was Europe’s aim to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010, capable…
In his June Doors of Perception e-mail newsletter, John Thackara comments on the move of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to Milan: “A brutal policy change by its main sponsor, Telecom Italia, has forced Interaction Design Institute Ivrea to move to Milan and effectively merge with…
We’re filling up the world with technology and devices, but we’ve lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a…
“Almost Real” is the title of the 7th issue of the magazine Beyond Borders. It is devoted to art and social change.Beyond Borders is published by the European Cultural Foundation, Europe’s only independent, non-national and pan-European cultural foundation. Click here to download a 3.1…
The newest scenarios from Shell, the company that has been trendsetting the use of scenarios in strategic planning. Go to website
With competition mounting from low-cost Asia and the fast-moving United States, European businesses are searching for a model to make them viable in an increasingly globalised marketplace. Read full story
Teller, 34, is chief executive of BodyMedia, a company he cofounded six years ago in Pittsburgh. BodyMedia has sold 7,500 armband monitors, 2.9-ounce pods packed with six sensors absorbing physiological data 32 times a second. Wearers dump their data wirelessly to a PC, which sends…
It helps to be persistently joyful and joyfully persistent. Read full review