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The Guardian reviews a book that argues that our privacy is under threat by increased digital surveillance.
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9 May 2008
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8 May 2008
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A series of web pages on the France Telecom/Orange site give an insight in how the company moves from the many ideas that come out of R&D, to a product or service that is ready for the market.
In 2005-2006, France Telecom created two structures, the Explocentre and the Technocentre, which work in close collaboration with the R&D laboratories installed all over the world, but are run by the Strategic Marketing Department, which provides the group’s orientations and knowledge of the market. The Explocentre is an “incubator for R&D projects” and “concentrates on nurturing highly innovative concepts with strong potential, but that could be deemed too risky to be placed directly on the market”. The Explocentre determines their feasibility and potential, and tests new uses and technological breakthroughs before market launch. Interestingly, the centre works with “new methods based on co-creation with customers and partners, using design to drive innovation. Ideas for services are investigated, tested and re-worked with customers to find real value potential.” Once explored, the most promising concepts are submitted to the Technocentre, which deals with the implementation of these “mature” projects. The Technocentre is responsible for turning them into products ready for the market, either by industrialising them for a commercial launch or by transferring to a spin-off or joint venture for development. The centre brings together around 30 teams consisting of a marketing specialist, a researcher and a network engineer. So at the one end of France Telecom’s innovation chain there are ideas coming in from R&D, and the company’s industrial partners and employees. Those ideas with high development potential go to the exploration centre, where they are analysed and tested. The integrated strategic marketing in the innovation chain then takes over marketing the product within the technocentre. Finally, agreed projects are integrated into the Group’s Product Roadmap and 3-year plan, which is the other end of its innovation process. |
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8 May 2008
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The May issue of UX matters contains an interview with Lou Rosenfeld and Liz Danzico of the publishing house Rosenfeld Media, a publisher of user experience design books.
Lou is also an active member of the board of directors of UXnet, the user experience network. |
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4 May 2008
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Joshua Porter, a user interface designer, wonders whether simplicity is a bad design goal, and expresses his ideas in a thoughtful post.
Porter rethinks the discussion as not one about simplicity but as one about the psychology of trade-offs:
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on product design related papers presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Case study: using online communities to drive commercial product development [abstract] Future Craft: how digital media is transforming product design [abstract] “If you build it, they will come … if they can”: pitfalls of releasing the same product globally [abstract] What about a ‘local’ wrapper around an ‘universal’ core? [abstract] Studying paper use to inform the design of personal and portable technology [abstract] |
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3 May 2008
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Here is my selection on papers on more strategic issues presented at CHI 2008.
(Papers are linked to their pdf downloads, if available.) Empathy and experience in HCI [abstract] Interactional empowerment [abstract] Healthy technology: a metaphor that pushed user experience to new strategic heights at Intel [abstract] User experience over time User experience at Google – focus on the user and all else will follow [abstract] |
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1 May 2008
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The April issue of the International Journal of Design has recently been published.
It is the fourth issue of this peer-reviewed journal issued by the Taiwan-based Chinese Institute of Design (read more here).
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24 April 2008
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| Design Flanders and Flanders In Shape organise a one-day conference and intensive training on user-centred design in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels on 22 May.
Experientia’s Jan-Christoph Zoels and Mark Vanderbeeken (the author of this blog) are in charge of the afternoon workshop on ethnography. The event web page explains the importance of empathy in the creation of a successful user experience and stresses the relevance of a user-centred design for small and medium size companies. The day will start off with a series of presentations:
The afternoon will feature four parallel workshops:
Patricia Ceysens, Flemish Minister of Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade, will provide the closing speech. Programme and registration: www.ucd.be |
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24 April 2008
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23 April 2008
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iTunes U is an area of iTunes that lets universities in the US share - for free! - audio and video from their lectures, talks and events. The contents are globally accessible.
By clicking on Power Search, you can easily limit the regular iTunes search to iTunes U. Of particular interest to the readers of this blog is Stanford University’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar, consisting of no less than 36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman. |
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23 April 2008
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Stu Card, manager of the user interface group at the famed Palo Alto Research Center and Ted Selker of MIT’s Media Lab discussed human interfaces for mobile computers at the recent Sofcon 2008, and just how differently engineers have to treat these devices than their older PC brothers.
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20 April 2008
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Network World reports that “a handful of universities, including the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley, is working to build a software architecture and reusable components that can make Web applications easier to develop and use. The Fluid Project’s work focuses on user-centered design practices. Vendors such as Mozilla Foundation, IBM and Sun are also taking part.”
Here some more information on the project:
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17 April 2008
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Mark Ury contacted me the other day. He is the chief experience architect for Blast Radius and has a very good blog, entitled “The Restless Mind“, that features the kind of “slow” insightful writing that I really enjoy.
Take a look at some of his latest posts:
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17 April 2008
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As keynote speaker at the IA Summit 2008, Jared Spool puts his foot in it:
Read full story (with Jared Spool presentation) |
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13 April 2008
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The April issue of UXmatters just came out:
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13 April 2008
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Daniel Lende wrote a good annotated summary of the New York Times magazine feature of Jan Chipchase, on the “Neuroanthropology” blog.
He thinks the “world is going to see a transformation through the convergence of four factors: people-driven processes, change for the rest of us, human-centered science, and emerging methods”. |
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12 April 2008
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12 April 2008
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Julian Bleecker has decided to join Nokia’s Design Strategic Projects Studio.
Julian and (LIFT conference’s) Nicolas Nova are the co-founders of the Near Future Laboratory where client work focuses on developing emerging and conceptual design-technology for new interactive experiences. Jan Chipchase and Duncan Burns are his colleagues in the studio. In a long post on his blog, he explains why he made this decision:
Julian was recently in Turin, Italy, as a guest of the Bruce Sterling curated Share Festival, and I met him at a small party organised by the Turin-based participatory planning firm Avventura Urbana. In his post, Julian also gives some background on the Studio:
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12 April 2008
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10 April 2008
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Last year’s conference “Innovation Forum Interaction Design” focused on all aspects of interface and interaction design: mobile telephone and media interfaces, problem solutions and product visions, web pages and virtual worlds, art and commerce, business and science.
Speakers included Gillian Crampton Smith, Anthony Dunne, Tim Edler, Frank Jacob, Gesche Joost, Bernard Kerr, Patrick Kochlik, Kristjan Kristjansson, Bill Moggridge, Dennis Paul, Mike Richter and Bruce Sterling. (via Bruce Sterling) |
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