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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Video interviews with Dan Ariely and Clay Shirky
Big Think is an online think tank, founded in 2007, that presents video interviews with major intellectuals from a wide range of fields. Recent interviews that...
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Sensemaking
Jon Kolko was one of the speakers yesterday at the Design Research Society conference in Montreal, Canada. His presentation addressed Sensemaking – the manner in...
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Habitar
Today I received the catalogue of the Habitar exhibition, organised by LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, an exhibition centre for art, science, technology...
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Intel launches new interaction and experience research division
At the Intel Labs’ annual Research at Intel media event, Intel Corporation Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner announced a new research division, called Interaction...
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Smart meters not smart enough for consumers
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy on Tuesday released results of a survey finding that energy use feedback tools are more important than smart...
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Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy
Ever keen to expand the boundaries of their practices, design professionals have been moving in the direction of public policy for some years, writes Lucy Kimbell...
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Beyond findability
The Spring 2010 issue of the Journal of Information Architecture is now available. In one of the articles “Beyond Findability“, Luigi Spagnolo, Davide Bolchini,...
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Kuniavsky designing read-write web-created things
This fast approaching era of desktop manufacturing via advanced MakerBots and other 3D printers is in part why ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky runs an annual conference...
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The cities we need
The Grattan Institute, an Australian independent public policy think-tank, has published a new report, entitled “The Cities We Need“, that aims to set an agenda...
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Why social experience is the future of online content
“For all of the attention on social networking, there are few social media experiences that match the fun of hanging out together with friends in person,” writes...
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Design research at LIFT conference
At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the conference itself to understand what was working...
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The product of a healthy relationship
The relationship between researchers and product designers can be a rocky one. Paul Golden looks at how market research can make sure it promotes creative thinking...
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Interactions magazine on subtlety and change
The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on subtlety and change, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko: “There are some strange changes under way in...
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Goodbye to UXnet
For nearly three years, selected Putting People First posts — 837 to be precise — have also been published on the website of UXnet. Now that UXnet is being disbanded...
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Essays on service design in higher education
COTEN, the collaborative online research project exploring service design for higher education in 2010, features some interesting lecture essays: Small change and...
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