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In the age of the Internet of Things, all products are software products
From Putting People First

In the age of the Internet of Things, all products are software products

Esko Kilpi, the principal of Esko Kilpi Ltd, a leading research and consultancy firm focusing on the art of interaction, science of social complexity and the design...

Behavioural Economics and Health: Nudging Toward a Culture of Wellness
From Putting People First

Behavioural Economics and Health: Nudging Toward a Culture of Wellness

Behavioural Economics and Health: Nudging Toward a Culture of Wellness Report by David Verbeeten The Conference Board of Canada, 52 pages, January 15, 2015 This...

[Book] Inventing the Muslim Cool
From Putting People First

[Book] Inventing the Muslim Cool

At Experientia we believe in the importance of understanding cultural differences, no matter how wide they might be. There is not much qualitative research, it...

Texting is family glue for the 21st century
From Putting People First

Texting is family glue for the 21st century

Recent research from the University of Kansas looks at the way technological advancements influence interpersonal communication, with a focus on familial relationships...

Case study: Service innovation in the public sector
From Putting People First

Case study: Service innovation in the public sector

Case study: Service innovation in the public sector Service Design Network site This case study is based on a series of public sector projects commissioned by the...

Videos online of Service Design Global Conference 2014
From Putting People First

Videos online of Service Design Global Conference 2014

On 7-8 October around 650 global thought leaders and practitioners from sectors such as hospitality, insurance, retail, telecommunications, finance, IT and healthcare...

Ezio Manzini’s introduction to design for social innovation
From Putting People First

Ezio Manzini’s introduction to design for social innovation

Design, When Everybody Designs – An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation By Ezio Manzini The MIT Press, 264 pages February 2015 In a changing world everyone...

First edition of UX STRAT Europe to take place in Amsterdam this June
From Putting People First

First edition of UX STRAT Europe to take place in Amsterdam this June

And all keynote speakers are American… UX STRAT Europe will take place in Amsterdam on June 4 – 5, 2015 at the Tobacco Theater in the heart of Amsterdam. The conference...

How Lego used ethnographic studies to become the Apple of toys
From Putting People First

How Lego used ethnographic studies to become the Apple of toys

Or said differently: “If you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle.” Jørgen Vig Knudstorp began turning the company...

Quali-quantitative experiments in a Big Data world
From Putting People First

Quali-quantitative experiments in a Big Data world

Complementary social science? Quali-quantitative experiments in a Big Data world Anders Blok and Morten Axel Pedersen University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark...

A manifesto for qualitative research (and more)
From Putting People First

A manifesto for qualitative research (and more)

TNS, a global company specialised in market research, global market information and business analysis, has published some papers that are quite aligned with what...

Happy Playful New Year
From Putting People First

Happy Playful New Year


The business of design consulting
From Putting People First

The business of design consulting

Robert Fabricant, who moved from design consultancy Frog to development consultancy Dalberg, writes that the business of design consulting is undergoing mass extinction...

The need for design history in HCI
From Putting People First

The need for design history in HCI

Carl DiSalvo, an associate professor in the Digital Media program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is struck that there is very little design history in...

Reinventing Banking – Toby Sterrett of Simple
From Putting People First

Reinventing Banking – Toby Sterrett of Simple

[Video] “Designing Delightful Details for a UI Revolution” by Toby Sterrett at push.conference 2014 Toby Sterrett, Simple’s Director of UX, offers a deep dive on...

Experientia’s Twitter feed live
From Putting People First

Experientia’s Twitter feed live

Experientia has now its own Twitter feed. Four months of Putting People First posts and other links have already been uploaded. If you followed Experientia on Twitter...

Why Americans care more about experiences than possessions
From Putting People First

Why Americans care more about experiences than possessions

Leslie Bradshaw, managing parter of Made by Many, describes Americans’ shifting value systems. “Young people have redefined success, and their new definition values...

Why Mozilla conducts qualitative user research
From Putting People First

Why Mozilla conducts qualitative user research

“Technology and business organizations often default to a positivist worldview and subsequently believe that quantitative results that provide numeric measures...

Beautiful users: book and exhibition
From Putting People First

Beautiful users: book and exhibition

BOOK Beautiful Users: Designing for People Edited and designed by Ellen Lupton Princeton Architectural Press, 2014, 144 pages In the mid-twentieth century, Henry...

Putting People First blog redesigned
From Putting People First

Putting People First blog redesigned

Experientia’s Putting People First blog has been redesigned. It is now entirely responsive, allows for easier browsing, searching, and filtering, and features larger...
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