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Experientia trademarked its name
From Putting People First

Experientia trademarked its name

When Experientia’s four partners decided to start a business back in 2005, one of the important discussions then was about the name. After brainstorming on the...

Pleasant things work better
From Putting People First

Pleasant things work better


Experientia congratulates Italy on Esperienza Italia
From Putting People First

Experientia congratulates Italy on Esperienza Italia

2011 marks the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, and it is fitting that the celebrations are kicking off in Turin, which (in addition to being Experientia’s...

Experientia and Accenture sign memorandum of understanding
From Putting People First

Experientia and Accenture sign memorandum of understanding

Experientia and Accenture are looking at future project opportunities together, after signing a memorandum of understanding this month. The two companies have previously...

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at workshop on smart living
From Putting People First

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at workshop on smart living

On Thursday 3 February, Experientia senior partner in charge of user experience design, Jan-Christoph Zoels, will speak at the TouchHouse. Smart living – Communicating...

Connected they write
From Putting People First

Connected they write

Raquel Recuero (blog) is an associate professor at the Departments of Applied Linguistics and Social Communication in Universidade Cat

The ABC of behavioural change
From Putting People First

The ABC of behavioural change

Jodie Moule, a psychologist and co-founder & director of Symplicit, an experience design consultancy based in Australia, describes on Johnny Holland what it takes...

Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US
From Putting People First

Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US

Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people

Devices will allow for more heads-up mobility
From Putting People First

Devices will allow for more heads-up mobility

Marko Ahtisaari, senior vp and head of design strategy at Nokia, was interviewed on the [Nokia] Ideas Project site. In the [short] interview, Ahtisaari states that...

Beware the seductions of sociable machines
From Putting People First

Beware the seductions of sociable machines

Our lives have become bold technological experiments, but we need to think hard before letting the computers and robots take over, says Sherry Turkle, MIT professor...

Experientia part of EPIC 2011
From Putting People First

Experientia part of EPIC 2011

The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) has become the premier international forum for bringing together academics, computer scientists, designers...

From Putting People First

Sherry Turkle, has been an ethnographer of our technological world for three decades, hosted all the while at one of its epicenters: MIT. A professor of the social...

UX design in the financial services industry
From Putting People First

UX design in the financial services industry

Harald Felgner alerts us to a presentation by Amir Dotan of LAB49 where he shares his experiences working as a user experience architect in the financial services...

Distance Lab closed down
From Putting People First

Distance Lab closed down

The BBC reports that the Distance Lab closed down. Distance Lab was a Scottish creative research initiative for digital media technology and design innovation,...

Design research and innovation: an interview with Don Norman
From Putting People First

Design research and innovation: an interview with Don Norman

Jeroen Van Geel of Johnny Holland interviewed Donald Norman about innovation, design research, and emotional design. Earlier this year you wrote that design research...

Mobile youth around the world
From Putting People First

Mobile youth around the world

Nielsen

Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun
From Putting People First

Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun

When I was working at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I met Massimo Banzi who embarked on an open source hardware initiative which eventually became the very...

Cyberspace when you
From Putting People First

Cyberspace when you

The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time? Rob Walker reflects in a long article for the New...

Videos of UX Week 2010
From Putting People First

Videos of UX Week 2010

At the end of August Adaptive Path held its UX Week 2010 in San Francisco and uploaded videos of all the presentations a little after. I only noticed them now....

Automakers grapple with New-Age dilemma: software or hardware?
From Putting People First

Automakers grapple with New-Age dilemma: software or hardware?

A somewhat older but no less relevant article by Bill Visnic on how automakers are diverging around the question of how to approach the onboard “infotainment” revolution...
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