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Idea Summary from Change by Design
We‘ve recently read IDEO Tim Brown‘s book Change by Design (HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009) and felt like sharing our likings with you. This is not a review of the book, rather bits and pieces we thought are interesting, fresh, good for thought or simply funny.
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Posted in Reviews, Theory and methods Tagged Change by Design, IDEO, innovation, prototyping, Tim Brown, user research 1 Comment
Universal design: are cultural and individual differences really so important in design?
Ever heard a phrase “Something that is not moving is hard to perceive”? Thought of animated banners? No, these are highlights from an article on universal human principles in design by Paul Hekkert (one of the authors of the must-read Product Experience book). Read More
User Experience Over Time: Part 1
What makes a product good or beautiful? How does user experience change over time? These are some of the most often asked questions by UX researchers trying to measure user experience.
To answer these questions authors of User experience over time article carry out a research on how people form evaluative judgements during their first encounters with a product and then after 4 weeks of using it. They claim that the way we experience and evaluate products changes over time. Read More
Posted in Theory and methods, User Experience Tagged beauty, Hassenzahl, interactive products, User Experience, uWand Leave a comment
Infographics: EuroBasket 2011 Schedule
No secret, that we are a basketball nation. So we are very excited and proud, about EuroBasket 2011 taking place in Lithuania. This infographics with EuroBasket 2011 group structure and game schedules is our contribution to the even preparations. Any corrections or improvement suggestions are very welcome.
Infographics: Gas prices
Do you sometimes get a feeling that you are overpaying for gas? Or possibly all the time? In Lithuania, which is a country of our home office, we get this feeling a lot. So the following infographics was inspired by a routine visit to a gas station sometime around New Year. After a brief brainstorming, our team spent half a day for web/database search and number crunching and another half a day for graphic design. Following is our result. When we looked at the numbers, we thought “No wonder this infographics originated in Lithuania”…
Line of Adaptivity in HCI and HRI: user experience similarities and differences
Do you think human-computer interaction (HCI) is a complex topic? Then how about human-robot interaction (HRI)? Computer is just a machine, or at least looks like one and acts like one. However robot does not look just like any machine – anthropoid robots are designed to resemble humans and mimic their behavior. For example a research group at Carnegie Mellon University is designing robotic products and services to be adaptable to people’s changing behavior over repeated interactions. But how would people react once faced with a need to interact with such creatures?
This original article is dealing with enriched Service Blueprint (SB). SB is a tool for service design which we will cover in the nearest future, however this time we focus on implications of repeated service encounters. Our initial idea was to simply present you the model, but then it appeared that the same model has many parallels to human-computer interaction as well. So the case descriptions under each model sections outline some ideas about parallels and differences between HCI and HRI.
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Posted in Case studies, Theory and methods, User Experience Tagged adaptive, HCI, HRI, Line of Adaptivity, service design, User Experience Leave a comment
Seoul UX report – glimpse into the public transportation
Context
This report was prepared as part of the World Usability Day activities with the purpose of contributing best practice examples to the international sustainable design community. It is layed out in a format of a passenger’s story – a person who is taking bus from a busy Sinchon area in North of Han river in Seoul to go to the City Hall (intersection of two subway lines) and returns to Sinchon via subway.
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Seoul Public Transportation Usability Research Day
In support of the World Usability Day 2009, we dedicate November 12 to researching ease and convenience of using Seoul public transportation. This event is carried out with the purpose of contributing useful examples of sustainable design in public transportation to the international community. Read More
Posted in Company News, Usability Tagged Korea, research, Seoul, transport, usability, usability day Leave a comment