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New handset, new life
From Putting People First

New handset, new life

The Mobile Work Life Project is a Ryerson university-based research project funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Its aim is to...

Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future
From Putting People First

Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future

Jim Whitehurst, chief executive and president of Red Hat Inc., the only publicly traded open-source software company, sees user collaboration as the wave of the...

Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities
From Putting People First

Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities

Design Flanders ["Design Vlaanderen"] and the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (both in Belgium) have just published a bilingual Dutch-English booklet...

Inside Google
From Putting People First

Inside Google

Smashing Magazine author Dan Redding interviewed Marcin Wichary, Senior User Experience Designer at Google. “Marcin Wichary

Social Circles
From Putting People First

Social Circles

Usability consultant Frank Spillers writes that he the recent release of Google’s social circles (part of the new ‘Google +’ social network) constitutes a social...

Smart Design
From Putting People First

Smart Design

Smart Design’s think tank presents an ongoing discussion of how gender should be included in good design – all published in a new series on Fast Company. The Femme...

Let
From Putting People First

Let

Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter, explores how the social experience of real shopping can help improve web retail, and how the online social shopping experience...

Report: Behaviour Change and Energy Use
From Putting People First

Report: Behaviour Change and Energy Use

The Behavioural Insight Team of David Cameron’s Cabinet Office – widely known as the ‘nudge unit‘, has published the repor, Behaviour Change and Energy Use, setting...

Web 3.0 is all about social personalisation
From Putting People First

Web 3.0 is all about social personalisation

Forget Web 2.0. During a panel on social media at the recent Wharton Global Alumni Forum, industry experts argued that we are now in a “third wave” of disruption...

Niti Bhan on emerging markets tech event in East Africa
From Putting People First

Niti Bhan on emerging markets tech event in East Africa

Niti Bhan, the emerging markets strategy specialist, went to Kenya to participate in the Pivot 25 conference and wrote this guest contribution on her experience...

How computers can cure cultural diabetes
From Putting People First

How computers can cure cultural diabetes

Peter Lunenfeld (wikipedia), professor in the Design | Media Arts department at UCLA, argues in a New Scientist op-ed piece for the importance of what he calls...

Alone together
From Putting People First

Alone together

MIT technology and society specialist Professor Sherry Turkle presents – during a June 1 talk at the RSA in London – the results of a fifteen year exploration of...

The iPad as support for people with disabilities
From Putting People First

The iPad as support for people with disabilities

The Apple tablet is helping people with disabilities by reading e-mails, voicing directions, and zooming in on text. “Apple has added features that make the iPhone...

For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience
From Putting People First

For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience

Matt Frassica asks

For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience
From Putting People First

For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience

Matt Frassica asks — in The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal (republished in USA Today) — what the increasing popularity of e-reader devices means for the experience...

Help us say no to Italian internet censorship
From Putting People First

Help us say no to Italian internet censorship

AGCOM, Italy’s independent and autonomous administrative Authority for Communication Guarantees, is about to decide (on July 5) to controversially appoint itself...

The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
From Putting People First

The Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

Donald Norman alerts us – with strong recommendation – to check out the Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction now being assembled by Mads Soegaard and the...

How print design is the future of interaction
From Putting People First

How print design is the future of interaction

Mike Kruzeniski is Creative Director at Microsoft, in the Windows Phone design studio, currently leading the Windows Phone Apps Design team. Kruzeniski gave a talk...

Experientia teams with Innovhub, to make its services available to Milan SMEs at 50% of the cost
From Putting People First

Experientia teams with Innovhub, to make its services available to Milan SMEs at 50% of the cost

Innovhub, the innovation agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce, has selected the international user experience design consultancy Experientia to help Milan-based...

Digital DIY
From Putting People First

Digital DIY

The Guardian reports on a study by an “exasperated academic” (Philip Ely, head of the business and community school at the University for the Creative Arts, and...
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