Tag: User Experience

What is innovation?

By Martin Recke

Innovation is about introducing products that are better than what's already there. What's better and what's not is determined by the user.
The Dopamine Loop is Dead. Long Live the Experience Loop!

By Martin Recke

It's clearly not enough to simply hack human psychology. We need more sustainable models.
NEXT16: Golden Krishna wants to kill interfaces

By Adam Tinworth

We're too obsessed by screens. Turn them off - and design for interface-free experiences and back pocket apps.
SXSW: A Newbie’s Experience

By Martin Recke

Wow. South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) has exceeded every expectation I might have had before attending.
NEXT14: Future interfaces

By Adam Tinworth

Can machines learn multi-channel interfaces? Where is VR going? Is eye tracking the future? And is the cyborg dream coming true? NEXT14 explores the interface…
Thomas Bendig: making user interfaces more human

By Adam Tinworth

Humans use multiple channels to communicate with others - but we only use one channel at a time when we communicate with devices. It's time to change that.
Touchpoints: the danger that lies in the details

By Adam Tinworth

The trouble with touchpoints: why focusing on specific contacts points can make you miss the big picture.
The Experience is the Product

Over the years, Pedro Custódio has accrued a great deal of knowledge in the fields of user experience, usability and product development. At NEXT Service Design, he shared some of his insights.
Service-Dominant Strategic Orientation is King in Agencies’ Business Logic

By Ina Feistritzer

Could service design thinking be the key to a better agency – and better business? At NEXT Service Design in autumn 2012, Axel Averdung and Erik E. Groeneveld of SinnerSchrader discussed recent developments in the field.
The Experience is the Product

Keynote by Pedro Custódio, Experience DesignersSpeaker at NEXT Service Design 2012 Over the past years, experience designer Pedro Custódio…
Can you really design experiences?

By Adam Tinworth

One British service designer suggests that the digital world takes away the power to design experiences - is she right?
QR Codes: good on bottles, bad on books

By Adam Tinworth

People are quick to dismiss the potential of the QR code - but are marketers really offering a compelling reason to use them?
Jens Garberding – How UI Design Can Help Managing Chaos

Not long ago, our digital desktops looked like a simple digitisation of our analog desks. Today GUIs use a “metro-style design language”, which is universally understandable and stripped off unnecessary information, Jens Garberding explains in his talk at NEXT Berlin 2012.
Smartest Common Denominator: Touchscreens and the Future of Screen Design

Oliver Reichenstein, Information Architects…
To Have and to Hold: Data in a Mobile World

Oliver Reichenstein, Information Architects…