Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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
Venture firms in Europe triple fundraising for investment while U.S. fundraising drops 44 percent. Read full story
Michelangelo Pistoletto and his foundation Cittadellarte present “The Third Paradise” at the Biennale of Venice. They will occupy the entire island of San Servolo, which is located between the Giardini and Lido all through the summer. The opening events are on Wednesday 8 and Thursday…
Many of the largest European economies are casting about for a blueprint to remain competitive in the 21st century, as the forces of globalisation and technology shift the fault lines of economic power across the globe. Read full story
While we in the real world labor over the small screens of our mobile devices, trying to figure out which menu button gets to our contact list and which key makes an exclamation mark, researchers and sociologists in assorted ivory towers are contemplating how…
Marco Boglione and the Chinese threat to Italian manufacturing. Read full story
In October 2005, the Interaction Design Institute will leave Ivrea and move to the new premises of Domus Academy in Via Watt in Milan. Read full story
The global economy requires a new way of thinking about how technology, R&D, human resources, and management need to combine. Read full story
John Markoff’s “What the Doormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer” makes the case that the personal computer is intimately bound up with the growth of the counterculture in the 1960s. The personal computer’s origins in the counterculture, he argues, continue to…
Aside from the many (sometimes older) projects, the website showing Philips’ design research projects also contains an interesting movie on foresight (Delphi movie). It seems that the most recent projects are under “Smart Connections”. Go to website
NextBillion.net brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Their goal is to identify and discuss sustainable business models that address the needs of the world’s poorest citizens.…
Creative directors, market researchers, brand strategists and experience designers built the AIGA Center for Brand Experience in order to pool their knowledge and skills to educate the business and design communities about building successful and innovative brands. Go to website
An evolving glossary of experience design. Go to website
To some, the notion of outsourcing work to India conjures up stories of American and European software programmers being reduced to stocking supermarket shelves to make a living. To others, it evokes legions of fresh-faced Indians willing to do intense, high-skill work for low…
By building social issues into strategy, big business can recast the debate about its role, argues Ian Davis of McKinsey. Read full story
‘Go out and play’ vs. ‘de-naturing of childhood’ Read full review
Anatole Gershman, global director of research at Accenture Technology Laboratories, interviewed about Accenture’s vision for the future of technology, which includes interactive grocery carts and the ability for your wardrobe to communicate with stores. Read full story
BBDO Worldwide in New York, General Electric’s longtime advertising agency, was not getting the message. The agency had been offering G.E. its panoply of traditional marketing ideas, leaning heavily on the standard 30-second television spot. But Judy Hu, general manager for global advertising and branding…
It’s a transformation as significant as when we went from black-and-white to color—and it’s already underway. The promise is that you’ll be able to watch anything you want, anywhere—on a huge high-def screen or on your phone. Read full story
Mobile TV has been talked about for ages, probably since the first mobile phone with a colour screen became available and certainly since the launch of 3G, the faster networks that allow video to be accessed at a reasonable speed. Now, Orange has announced a…
Vodafone is launching a back-to-basics mobile phone in response to customer demand for simplicity. Read full story
A technology conference takes cues from nature. Read full story
Working across borders, designers Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar create a new strain of furniture. Read full story
Stephen Bayley takes a pit stop in Turin, and finds the hometown of Fiat is fuelled by fast cars and fabulous food. Read full story
“So how do you feel about e-mail?” asks Simon Roberts, a social anthropologist. “How has it changed your workload?” This is not what social anthropologists are usually expected to ask: they observe courtship rituals, try to interpret ancient chants, analyse gift-giving or tribal cosmology.…
Cell phones. Memory chips. Plasma TVs. How Samsung made Korea a consumer electronics superpower. Read full story
Between 15 and 20 years into the future, Korean people’s long-time wish of living longer and healthier lives will come true and Korea will enter an era of space travel by completing the development of manned spaceship. Such predictions came from a study conducted by…
Silvio Berlusconi’s unfulfilled promises may trouble Italians – but in Europe they add to the prime minister’s reputation as one of the most unloved continental leaders in recent memory. Read full story
The Dalai Lama and a host of Nobel prize winners have joined actor Richard Gere for a conference aimed at righting the wrongs of modern humanity. Read full story
The Industrial Technology Research Institute thinks it has a way to turn the country into an innovator, rather than just an improver. Read full story