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Design for the next billion 2012: What
From Putting People First

Design for the next billion 2012: What

In a blog post, Niti Bhan, the head of Experientia’s Emerging Market Business Unit, writes about her realization that there is a huge gap in design for the next...

Aljazeera
From Putting People First

Aljazeera

Aljazeera’s The Stream reports on how people declare economic independence by establishing alternative currencies. “People and businesses are establishing micro...

Ericsson User Experience Lab blog
From Putting People First

Ericsson User Experience Lab blog

Cristian Norlin, master researcher at the Ericsson Research User Experience Lab, alerted me via Twitter to the Lab’s new blog. The User Experience Lab at Ericsson...

From Putting People First

Site works also as a full-screen swipeable tablet web app Today granstudio, the international design studio based in Turin, launches its new website, created by...

Design prototypes as boundary objects in innovation processes
From Putting People First

Design prototypes as boundary objects in innovation processes

Holger Rhinow, Eva K

Ecosystems rule over products now. Here
From Putting People First

Ecosystems rule over products now. Here

In order for designers to navigate the complex ecosystem of digital platforms, they’ll need to master business modeling and become comfortable working across disciplines...

After ethnography, and other papers by Iota Partners
From Putting People First

After ethnography, and other papers by Iota Partners

Iota Partners is a new Chicago-based venture of Rick Robinson and John Cain (with whom Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels once worked at Sapient) that deals...

Researchers glean deep UI lessons from a haptic steering wheel
From Putting People First

Researchers glean deep UI lessons from a haptic steering wheel

According to a new driving study, conducted by Professor SeungJun Kim at Carnegie Mellon

Short report on EPIC Europe, a conference on ethnography research in industry
From Putting People First

Short report on EPIC Europe, a conference on ethnography research in industry

Short report on the first European EPIC meeting by Anna Wojnarowska, UX researcher at Experientia: Last Friday, 11th of May, around 100 members of the ethnographic...

Is the 1,9,90 rule outdated?
From Putting People First

Is the 1,9,90 rule outdated?

The BBC have just released some interesting research around participation online, writes Neil Perkin on FutureLab. The findings (the result of a “large-scale, long...

New design practices for touch-free interactions
From Putting People First

New design practices for touch-free interactions

Brian Pag

Do you really want your bank following you around all day?
From Putting People First

Do you really want your bank following you around all day?

A conversation with senior Wells Fargo execs reveals a bank trying to use the Internet, social media and mobile technology to worm its way deeper and deeper into...

People-powered health co-production catalogue
From Putting People First

People-powered health co-production catalogue

The people at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, think that co-production is potentially transformative and its power comes from re-framing the problem and re-establishing...

User experience and neuroscience
From Putting People First

User experience and neuroscience

Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are...

Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think
From Putting People First

Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think

Leading neurologist Susan Greenfield tells Nokia Conversations that we need a new framework to make sense of our

The false question of attention economics
From Putting People First

The false question of attention economics

An older post, but I missed it. So here it is, more than two years after it was published by Stowe Boyd: “A few posts have emerged recently that recapitulate the...

Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business
From Putting People First

Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business

In a blog post (which is itself a paraphrased transcript of his talk at the Polish IA Summit 2012), Peter Bogaards talks about the relationship between user experience...

User experience is strategy, not design
From Putting People First

User experience is strategy, not design

Peter Merholz, VP of experience design at Inflection (and founder of Adaptive Path), thinks there is no such thing as a UX design profession. User experience is...

Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting
From Putting People First

Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting

Experientia partner in charge of user research, Michele Visciola, will be one of the speakers at the EPIC Europe one-day meeting at the Elisava Design School in...

How companies like Amazon use big data to make you love them
From Putting People First

How companies like Amazon use big data to make you love them

Businesses now sit on data goldmines, but very few leverage the data to improve customer service. Ziba’s creative director Sean Madden suggests three ways forward...
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