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Intel/GE healthcare alliance underlines strategic value of ethnographic research

If you ever need a solid case on why ethnographic research can provide strategic value to companies, yesterday’s announcement of the $250 million Intel/GE healthcare... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 3, 2009 at 02:03 PM

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Videos of presentations by Dan Saffer, Robert Fabricant and John Thackara

I just posted three videos of the recent Interaction09 conference on Core77: Dan Saffer - Attention Awareness for Interaction Designers 2009 Dan Saffer calls out... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 1, 2009 at 03:33 PM

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Bill Buxton on thinking outside the box

Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton argues that “by thinking outside the parameters imposed by technology, executives and designers can build businesses... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 1, 2009 at 10:32 AM

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Lying and the design of new technologies

The Wall Street Journal reports on work done by Intel’s Digital Home Group on people’s tendency to lie online and what the implications of lying are on the design... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM

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Design is the Problem: An Interview with Nathan Shedroff

Nathan Shedroff’s latest book, Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable, has just been published by Rosenfeld Media, and is likely to become... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 31, 2009 at 08:01 PM

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Co-creation in service design

Ben Fullerton has an article out in the March/April issue of Interactions magazine on Co-creation in Service Design. It focuses on the Experientia
From Putting People First | March 31, 2009 at 07:39 PM

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Experience based design at the UK

Yesterday I was in Lille, France, to speak at a small conference on service design organised by Philippe Picaud, the highly dynamic design director of Oxylane-Decathlon... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 31, 2009 at 07:17 PM

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Nokia

Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: Cheap sensors are transformative Monitor Networks CEO Chris Meyer sees tremendous possibilities in the observation and... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 31, 2009 at 12:47 PM

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Dimensions of compelling mobile experiences

Dave Zuvernik, senior user research specialist on Adobe XD Experientia
From Putting People First | March 27, 2009 at 02:05 PM

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Pay by cellphone? Sounds great. So why don

Fast Company’s Chris Dannen reflects on why Americans don’t use mobile banking. “Obopay is an payment system that works on your cell phone–kind of like a mobile... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 25, 2009 at 08:39 PM

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How networks of trust can unlock innovation

Informal networks are the links and exchanges that bind people together, explains Dr Karen Stephenson, a corporate anthropologist and an expert on social networks... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 25, 2009 at 08:29 PM

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How Innovations From Developing Nations Trickle-up to the West

More than a month before Business Week published an article about ‘trickle-up innovation’ (that I reported on earlier this week), Fast Company had already delved... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 25, 2009 at 02:01 PM

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Microsoft Research publishes interviews with Bill Buxton and danah boyd

The website of Microsoft Research seemed to have been redesigned recently and contains some nice interviews: Buxton putting design into MIX Bill Buxton of Microsoft... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 24, 2009 at 01:58 PM

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Mobile phones and the BOP in Washington, DC

The Washington Post reports on how homeless people in Washington DC use mobile phone, blogs and e-mail to stay on top of things. “Today, it’s not unusual for the... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 24, 2009 at 09:24 AM

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Award for user-friendly design of wireless multi-room music system

A few weeks ago the Sonos Multi-Room Music System, a wireless music system, which allows music-lovers to play all the music they want, was honoured with the international... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 24, 2009 at 09:18 AM

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Experientia office on Google Street View

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From Putting People First | March 22, 2009 at 05:41 PM

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Dotmocracy: crowdsourcing, mashups, and social change [eBook]

Dotmocracy: Crowdsourcing, Mashups, and Social Change by Lisa Campbell Free download As San Francisco braces itself to be the first major American city to not have... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 22, 2009 at 08:49 AM

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Scratching the Surface

Jack Schofield of The Guardian has published a nice short story about the user experience of interacting with the Microsoft surface: “Microsoft was using a shallow... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 20, 2009 at 03:43 PM

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Seeing Tomorrow

Adaptive Path organised a panel on service design yesterday. Panellists were Shelley Evenson (CMU), Robert Glushko (UC Berkeley), and Christi Zuber (Kaiser Permanente)... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 20, 2009 at 03:35 PM

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Sensing context in mobile design

Gabriel White, interaction design director at Punchcut in San Francisco, affirmed context as king in the design of mobile and location-aware computing at Australia’s... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM