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New XD Magazine to be launched

XD is a quarterly print magazine, to be launched from Australia in April 2014, which showcases the work of experience design practitioners and researchers from... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2014 at 07:54 AM

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[Book] Junkyard Planet

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter Bloomsbury Publishing 2013, 304 pages [Amazon link - video] Abstract When you drop your... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2014 at 05:42 AM

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Why the resurgence of user-centred design matters for marketers

Marc Landsberg, CEO of socialdeviant, believes that marketing departments will increasingly invest in social platforms that are committed to users’ needs and interests... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2014 at 05:20 AM

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[Book] Practical Ethnography

Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector By Sam Ladner Left Coast Press April 2014, 200 pages [Publisher link - Amazon link] >... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 18, 2014 at 04:17 PM

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Interview with Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at UK Government Digital Services

Tricia Wang (see also previous post) just published her interview with Leisa Reichelt, Head of User Research at UK Government Digital Services. Tricia introduced... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 18, 2014 at 11:06 AM

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Tricia Wang: The Conceit of Oracles (talk notes)

Sociologist and ethnographer Tricia Wang has posted the notes of “The Conceit of Oracles: How we ended up in a world in which quantitative data is more valued than... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 18, 2014 at 10:35 AM

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[Book] Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers and the Quest for a New Utopia by Anthony M. Townsend W. W. Norton & Company October 2013. 400 pages [Amazon link] Abstract... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2014 at 09:27 AM

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Why wearable tech is unwearable

Belindar Parmar, CEO of Lady Geek and founder of Little Miss Geek thinks that current wearable devices are “emblematic of a lack of empathy that pervades the technology... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2014 at 09:15 AM

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[Paper] Designing customer-centric branchless banking offerings

Designing Customer-Centric Branchless Banking Offerings Claudia McKay, Yanina Seltzer The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) 20 December 2013 pdf, iBook... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2014 at 09:42 AM

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[Book] Design Transitions

Design Transitions – Inspiring Stories. Global Viewpoints. How design is changing. By Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies and Lauren Tan BIS Publishers [Book site - Amazon... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 01:11 PM

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The new design: social innovation inspiring business innovation

Cheryl Heller of CommonWise argues that there’s a new design emerging that works from inside a community and at a systems level, impacting human relationships instead... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:24 AM

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Design’s next big frontier? Shaping behavior in real time

Small devices with embedded intelligence can do more than just measure; they’re showing their potential to change the way we act, writes Sean Madden in Fast Company... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:19 AM

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Solving the right problem and finding your own solution: an interview with Don Norman

At the LAUX Meetup Group, Media Contour’s Luke Swenson was able to track down Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:16 AM

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[Book] The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think

The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think by Douglas T. Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius Basic Books September 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 06:08 AM

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[Essay] Empathy on the edge

Empathy on the Edge Scaling and sustaining a human-centered approach in the evolving practice of design Katja Battarbee, Jane Fulton Suri, and Suzanne Gibbs Howard... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 05:49 AM

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The UX of commercial drones

In order for commercial drones like Amazon’s or Australian startup Flirtey’s to become a reality, the drone (or any future-world technology, really) can’t merely... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 05:20 AM

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150,000 job listings in the user experience field in the USA alone

Hiring managers know that design plays, and will continue to play, a critical role in the success of their companies because: What has been seen cannot be unseen... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 05:15 AM

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[Book] War, Peace, and Human Nature

War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views Douglas P. Fry Oxford University Press April 2013 [Amazon link] Abstract Have humans... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 04:24 AM

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Discover the world’s best mobile UX

To help you build better mobile experiences, UX Archive finds and presents mobile’s most interesting user flows so you can “compare them, build your point of view... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2014 at 04:16 AM

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Using ethnography to build internet freedom tools for real people

In our new dystopian world of pervasive surveillance, most people are at a loss what to do. The tools that allows us to maintain a semblance of privacy are really... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 2, 2014 at 10:17 AM