Mosse, my colleague at work, sent me a link to this interesting discussion regarding the ability of facebook to be a successful persuasive technology with resulting behaviour change. We are both interested in how the combination of ubiquitous technologies, social media and service design can be combined to nudge behaviour, particularly in public services such […]
Tag Archive 'Experience'
Peter Morville, him of the polar bear book on Information Architecture (link), and later Ambient Findability (link) has just written and interesting and informed piece about Ubiquitous Service Design (link). I’m always amazed about how compact and well linked his posts are, and this one is no exception. He introduces  a great many terms, but […]
Spotify managed to tempt me to click on an advert for changing my mobile phone subscription which took me to a nicely simple way to tailor a subscription (link). It uses sliders to allow me to choose precisely the combination I want for phone minutes, SMS, MMS and Internet use. I have always liked sliders […]
This simple video (simple in terms of technology, not message) gets across two sides of the view about books in paper or electronic form. It works very nicely by adding a twist in the middle which makes you rethink all of the arguments you have followed along the way. This gives you enough of an […]
Daniel Kahneman on experiences
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I am writing a chapter about design for experiences for the AT-ONE handbook at the moment and wanted to check some references. Into my inbox (from Ingrid, doing a really exciting project about health and well-being) came a rave review of this TED presentation by Daniel Kahneman. It’s  about the difference between experiences as experienced […]
Interesting Actor collaboration
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Found this site recently (link), not that I am thinking of planning, saving or getting married. What struck me about it was the obvious link and connection between the two actors – Â a wedding planning magazine and a savings bank. The site incorporates the two parts nicely into an integrated whole, and its is difficult […]
Nike is about to launch a city guide app for the iPhone. They are not the only ones that are competing to provide city guides, so that is not the main news item. There are several reasons why I think this is interesting news. Nike True City from NikeSportswear on Vimeo. Firstly, the collaboration between […]
Cut out those phone menus
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We are all sick of IVR phone menus – the ones that when you call offer you option after option of voice menus to direct you to the right place. Way back, I re-designed a few of them to make them easier to use, but they still are a poor substitute for a person on […]
Hello Health
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John Thackara (link) introduced me recently to Hello Health (link), a thoroughly modern primary  health service in New York. They have done something that seems obvious and simple – made the doctor personal again – through using the technology many of us have (Iphones, video-phones, email etc).  There is something compelling about this, even though […]
We have just started a series of workshops together with actress Birgit Nordby to explore different ways to specify a service experience and define a brand personality. The background for this work is that service experiences are difficult to describe and specify.There are several reasons for this: we don’t have a terminology to describe experiences […]
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