http://www.userresearch.co.uk User Research Sun, 11 May 2008 10:58:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A video from the recent Service Design Symposium hosted at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. http://www.userresearch.co.uk/bill-moggridge-keynote-on-service-design/ Micahael Birch co-founder of the social networking site Bedo is interviewed in today's Daily Telegraph. http://www.userresearch.co.uk/michael-birch-bedo/ The Economist and Jan Chipchase. http://www.userresearch.co.uk/the-economist/ The IA Summit 2008 held in Miami has placed some of the presention material online – here. http://www.userresearch.co.uk/ia-summit-2008/ Henning Fischer a design strategist at Adaptive Path has recently interviewed Peter Coughlan who heads up the transformation design service at IDEO. http://www.userresearch.co.uk/ideo-%e2%80%93-transformation-design/ 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 ... http://www.userresearch.co.uk/alltop/ 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 ... http://www.userresearch.co.uk/the-innovation-edge/ 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 ... http://www.userresearch.co.uk/user-led-innovation/ http://www.userresearch.co.uk/multi-touch-interaction-research/ 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. http://www.userresearch.co.uk/usability-and-mobile-devices/