Mick Underwood Very interesting portal on communication, cultural and media studies by Mick Underwood

allaboutbranding.com Excellent resource on ‘creating, communicating, living, measuring, managing and extending’ your brand. You can also sign up for their free email updates.

Brandchannel.com This online resource on branding and brands is produced by Interbrand, one of the leading brand strategy and design firms in the world. You can also sign-up for their weekly email updates.

Brand Mantra Jennifer Rice’s blog. Apart from some very interesting posts written by her, she has made a real effort in gathering relevant sources on branding, marketing and the ecology of business subjects.

experienceengineering Lou Carbone coined the term customer experience and, apart from being a really nice and approachable guy (I had the opportunity of meeting him in person in London), he is also author of ‘Clued In - How to keep customers coming back again and again’.

Shaun Smith & Co. Shaun has been disseminating customer experience concepts in the UK and is author of two books in the subject: Managing Customer Experiences and Uncommon Practice – both by FT Prentice Hall. Worth checking out!

The EX group Bernd Schmitt consultancy’s website is a great source of information with many articles and whitepapers on the subject.

Prophet They have consultants such as David Aaker, Scott Davis and Michael Dunn in their payroll…do I need to say more? ;-)

AIGA Journal of Design for the Network Economy is a well presented website and includes: a definition of experience design, disciplines involved, case studies and a forum for discussion amongst other things.

AIGA Experience Design The official website for the Experience Design community of practice. Here you’ll find a discussion-rich environment related to this field.

Challis Hodge Fantastic resource on Design, Innovation and Experience-related topics from this experience strategist.

Nathan Shedroff Nathan is an experience strategist and has launched one of the first books in this field entitled “Experience Design 1: a manifesto for the creation of experiences”

PeterMe Good source of “thoughts. Links and essays from Peter Merholz” concerning the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science and other topics.

Semiotics Very interesting source of links to semiotic-related websites from the University of Colorado at Denver.

Semiotics for Beginners This website by Daniel Chandler (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) is a good portal to the subject and includes the definition of semiotics, its strengths and weaknesses, references, suggested reading, glossary of key terms, etc.

Semiotic Analysis of Images This website, from the University of Newcastle (Australia), provides a good list of sites related to the semiotic analysis of images.

Lawes Consulting Commercial application of semiotics and ethno-methods to communications. It includes explanations on how semiotic analysis work, how to use it and some examples on how they have applied it to marketing challenges.