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Findability and Exploration: the future of search
From Putting People First

Findability and Exploration: the future of search

Stijn Debrouwere, a Belgian information architect, has published a long Peter Morville-inspired post on findability related issues. “The majority of people visiting...

Smart Things
From Putting People First

Smart Things

After posting the first chapter of his new book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (see also this earlier post), Mike Kuniavsky is now doing...

What
From Putting People First

What

The concept of social objects is pretty widely used in social interaction design, but we

Open positions at Experientia
From Putting People First

Open positions at Experientia


Book: Storytelling for User Experience
From Putting People First

Book: Storytelling for User Experience

Storytelling for User Experience – Crafting Stories for Better Design By Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks Rosenfeld Media April 2010 Availability: Paperback +...

RIM
From Putting People First

RIM

A Canadian article about Canada’s most important technology company, Research in Motion (the makers of the Blackberry), is always worth delving into. “RIM captured...

UX book reviews: May 2010
From Putting People First

UX book reviews: May 2010

The folks at Johnny Holland have published reviews on no less than four UX related books: Beyond the Usability Lab Authors: Bill Albert, Donna Tedesco, Thomas Tullis...

Design driven prison design in Belgium
From Putting People First

Design driven prison design in Belgium

Flanders InShape, the Flemish/Belgian competence centre for product development and industrial design, is supporting a new research project on the development of...

Towards a Finnish user needs based service economy
From Putting People First

Towards a Finnish user needs based service economy

Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund [disclaimer: and Experientia client] has launched a new book, After the Crisis, and a report, Finland: Wellsprings for a Vital...

A special report on television
From Putting People First

A special report on television

This week’s Economist contains a special report on television. The leader article presents television as the great survivor, which has coped well with technological...

The data-driven life
From Putting People First

The data-driven life

Gary Wolf reflects in the upcoming New York Times Magazine on what happens when technology can analyze “every quotidian thing that happened to you today.” “Numbers...

Two new articles on RFID interaction
From Putting People First

Two new articles on RFID interaction

Timo Arnall, the acclaimed interaction designer, alerts us to the fact that Touch project PhD researcher Kjetil Nordby has just published two journal articles on...

Cellphone payments offer alternative to cash
From Putting People First

Cellphone payments offer alternative to cash

The New York Times reports on how a number of big and small companies

Experientia seeks usability expert
From Putting People First

Experientia seeks usability expert


Revelation reviewed
From Putting People First

Revelation reviewed

Tim Macer of Research reviews Revelation, an online qualitative research environment for depth interviewing, discussions and ethnographic studies. “Online qualitative...

Innovation study: food and digital connectivity
From Putting People First

Innovation study: food and digital connectivity

Harnessing the rich detail, creativity, and individual relevance of personal narratives, Shareable.net and Latitude Research co-sponsored an innovation study to...

The interviews of l
From Putting People First

The interviews of l

The bilingual (Fr/En) research journal CADI of the highly respected design school L’

Guidebook on climate communications and behavioral change
From Putting People First

Guidebook on climate communications and behavioral change

To address global warming there must be a shift in thinking and behavior that motivates people and organizations to engage in emissions reductions and climate preparedness...

Eight interaction design and architecture videos
From Putting People First

Eight interaction design and architecture videos

The disciplines of interaction design and architecture share a number of common traits

Interactions Magazine
From Putting People First

Interactions Magazine

The latest issue of Interactions Magazine is about the spread of design into new areas, write editor Jon Kolko: “The process of design is spreading into new areas...
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