User Research

Bill Moggridge Keynote on Service Design

admin — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:56:42 +0000

A video from the recent Service Design Symposium hosted at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

Michael Birch Bedo

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:50:07 +0000

Micahael Birch co-founder of the social networking site Bedo is interviewed in today’s Daily Telegraph.

The Economist

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:15:02 +0000

The Economist and Jan Chipchase.

IA Summit 2008

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:58:01 +0000

The IA Summit 2008 held in Miami has placed some of the presention material online – here.

IDEO – transformation design

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:36:14 +0000

Henning Fischer a design strategist at Adaptive Path has recently interviewed Peter Coughlan who heads up the transformation design service at IDEO.

Alltop

admin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:19:35 +0000

Alltop brings together feeds from different blogs on to one page. Each Alltop page focuses one theme from the latest celebrity news through to design and the environment. The interface is elegant and very easy to ‘understand.’ You can watch a short introductory video with Guy Kawasaki here.

The Innovation Edge

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:03:29 +0000

The Innovation Edge is a conference held by Nesta which brings together leading thinkers, academics and practitioners from the field of innovation. The conference takes place on 20th May in London and speakers include:

Michael Birch, CEO, Bebo.com
David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities & Skills
Sir John Chisholm, Chairman, QinetiQ Group plc
Fred Bolza, Senior Director, Digital Development, Sony BMG
Jeremy Leggett, founder and Executive Chairman of Solarcentury
Saul Klein, Venture Partner, Index Ventures

User Led Innovation

admin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:54:59 +0000

Darren Sharp and Mandy Salomon have written a really interesting report on ‘user led innovation’, which uses Second Life as a case example. As part of the research a number of leading experts were interviewed by the authors including: Eric von Hippel (Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management); Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia.org); Michel Bauwens (Founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives) and Mitch Kapor (Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, venture capitalist and Chairman of Linden Lab). The report can be downloaded here (opens a pdf file).

Multi-Touch Interaction Research

admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:34:15 +0000

Usability and mobile devices

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:11:26 +0000

IT Wales has written a short article on usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices. The seven guiding principles include:

Meet users’ needs quickly;
Don’t repeat the navigation on every page;
Clearly distinguish selected items;
Make user input as simple as possible;
Only show essential information;
Place basic browsing controls on the page;
Design mobile-friendly page layouts.