At the moment the UX Lab is quite busy with a number of activities that are difficult to share any specific information about – mainly because we are in the middle of getting our heads around things. So instead of writing about what we haven’t done yet, I reckon it might be of interest to point at some of the topics we have been thinking about lately [ Read more ]

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As a part of exploring how our research-platform for interconnected objects (see “the Social Web of Things“) could enable new user experience concepts, we looked into what we could do with the log of data generated by the connected gadgets, sensors and services. This data is both used to maintain an updated snapshot of the current state of everything, and also for detecting historical [ Read more ]

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Part of the work as a user experience researcher (or a designer) is of course to get out of the office and explore the world. It is not enough to only read about things and listening to the experiences of others. Journeys into people’s everyday lives will surely give a more holistic view of practices and increase the understanding for potential users of products and services. What would [ Read more ]

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As I was skimming the newspaper one morning something caught my attention in the corner of a page – a Movie! Wait? That is fantastic! An embedded YouTube movie in a newspaper! Ok, of course not quite. The “movie” in the paper was the “Youtube-clip of the week” micro-feature and they used a play-button to illustrate just that. Pressing the play button merely produced a muted newspaper-paper-crumpling [ Read more ]

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The London-based design consultancy BERG have produced some very interesting work. Something we found especially intriguing was that they have this idea that Products are People Too. We had been tinkering with the concept of a Social Web of Things when we stumbled over BERG’s brilliant work, and it struck us that many of their ideas [ Read more ]

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