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Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario
From Putting People First

Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario

Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario Rohit Singh Overseas Development Institute, 2009 The number of mobile subscribers globally is estimated...

The future of interface design
From Putting People First

The future of interface design

David Leggett provides on his UX Booth blog an overview of what the future of interface design has to offer. He covers various upcoming interface technologies such...

Understanding users of social networks
From Putting People First

Understanding users of social networks

Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about...

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid
From Putting People First

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid

On Friday 13 (!) November, Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be one of the speakers at Visualizar’09, an international seminar on public data visualisation...

The Times
From Putting People First

The Times

The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions, reports Cliff Kuang on Fast Company. “The Times interactive...

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world
From Putting People First

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

MIT News reports on how MIT students are exploring innovative cellphone uses in the developing world. “Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students...

Augmented Reality is overblown
From Putting People First

Augmented Reality is overblown

Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives...

As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological
From Putting People First

As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological

“As products become more interactive, the focus shifts to the psychological,” argues Gentry Underwood, who focuses on social media and collaborative software at...

Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution
From Putting People First

Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution

Italy is in the process of switching to digital TV, and the implementation is pretty much a disaster, as far as I can tell from the reactions in the region where...

Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online
From Putting People First

Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online

The November-December edition of Interactions Magazine is online and some articles are available without subscription. Unfortunately, the main menu page doesn’t...

Experientia partner Michele Visciola on people-centred innovation as culture evolution
From Putting People First

Experientia partner Michele Visciola on people-centred innovation as culture evolution

My business partner Michele Visciola, who is also the president of Experientia, has written an article entitled “People-centered innovation or culture evolution...

The golden age of infinite music
From Putting People First

The golden age of infinite music

John Harris has written an excellent article on the BBC News site on the social and cultural consequences of music being always available online in free and seemingly...

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at IxD Fall Summit
From Putting People First

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at IxD Fall Summit

On 6 November Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be speaking at the IxD Fall Summit 2009 organised by the Ume

Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference
From Putting People First

Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference

Last week, the IASDR 2009 conference (International Association of Societies of Design Research) took place in Seoul, South Korea, and all videos of the keynote...

Migropolis: Venice /Atlas of a Global Situation
From Putting People First

Migropolis: Venice /Atlas of a Global Situation

In winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from theIUAV University in Venice (including Experientia collaborator...

Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design
From Putting People First

Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design

Computerworld New Zealand introduces user-centred web design. Introducing user-centred web design The first article in this series introduces the idea of User-Centred...

A reflection on energy efficiency and behaviour
From Putting People First

A reflection on energy efficiency and behaviour

Irene Cassarino, an Experientia collaborator, reports on the First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour, which took place in Maastricht last week...

Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution
From Putting People First

Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution

And still two more video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution. Arianna Huffington interview – USA Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of the influential news...

Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution
From Putting People First

Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution

More video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of...

A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova
From Putting People First

A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova

A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Click here...
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