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[Book] Hooked

Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Technology By Nir Eyal Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Released: December 2013 Pages: 154 [Amazon... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 2, 2014 at 09:17 AM

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[Book] Design for Behavior Change

Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics By Stephen Wendel Publisher: O’Reilly Media Released: November 2013 Pages: 400 [Amazon... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 2, 2014 at 05:11 AM

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[Book] Experience Design

Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham 240 pages October 2013 Wiley [Amazon link] Description... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 1, 2014 at 11:35 AM

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Saving the lost art of conversation in the age of the smartphone

Megan Garber of The Atlantic interviews (alternate link) Sherry Turkla, a psychologist and a professor at MIT whose primary academic interest—the relationship between... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 31, 2013 at 01:43 PM

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Solving problems for real world, using design

Formally the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, the D.school has made a global impact by encouraging students to find out what is most useful... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 31, 2013 at 01:29 PM

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The anthropology of Big Data

The anthropology of an equation. Sieves, spam filters, agentive algorithms, and ontologies of transformation Paul Kockelman This article undertakes the anthropology... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 31, 2013 at 01:15 PM

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The epistemology of Big Data

In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation, writes Michael Pepi in The New Enquirer.... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 31, 2013 at 01:06 PM

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How do e-books change the reading experience?

Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes discuss in the New York Times Book Review how technology affects our reading habits. Mohsin Hamid argues that in a world of intrusive... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 31, 2013 at 12:27 PM

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Ethnographic research: Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers

As part of a European Union-funded study on social media (make sure to check also the UCL site and blog on the same project), the Department of Anthropology at... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 23, 2013 at 05:12 AM

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People powered data

Geoff Mulgan, CEO of Nesta (the UK innovation charity), writes that in 2014 the growing movement to take back control of personal data will reach a tipping point... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 20, 2013 at 02:37 AM

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Screen Life: The View from the Sofa

A new study carried out for Thinkbox by COG Research and designed to help the advertising community understand the context of multi-screening (watching TV and simultaneously... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 20, 2013 at 02:29 AM

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Videos online of the Service Design Global Conference

Nearly all videos of the recent Service Design Global Conference in Cardiff, Wales (19-20 November 2013) are now online: DAY 1 Making Data Useful The Service Design... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 17, 2013 at 11:33 AM

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Dan Hill: Can public enterprises adopt the popular dynamics of private enterprises?

In his latest Dezeen column, Dan Hill examines what services like the Uber taxi app mean for cities and asks whether the designers of public services can learn... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 17, 2013 at 10:19 AM

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American-centric UI is leveling tech culture — and design diversity

An article with a title like this cannot but intrigue me (being a non-American leading a non-USA company) – and even more so after I found out that it was written... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 17, 2013 at 07:10 AM

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Reinventing the wheel

Experientia has been featured in RISD.edu, the website of the Rhode Island School of Design, where Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels received his master’s... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 14, 2013 at 03:25 PM

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UX review of Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch

Smartwatches are the future, but the Samsung Galaxy Gear is only partway there, writes Raluca Budiu, a senior researcher with Nielsen Norman Group, in her detailed... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 14, 2013 at 12:08 PM

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The lack of closure experience in digital products and services

There’s an ever-growing tide of inactive, dormant, or extinct customer accounts and other online personal data swallowing up the digital landscape, writes Joe Macleo... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 14, 2013 at 11:48 AM

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Robert Fabricant on scaling your UX strategy

Leading businesses like Google are exploring scalable strategies that make UX relevant to engineers and MBAs across their organizations. Robert Fabricant has posted... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 8, 2013 at 02:13 PM

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Britain’s Ministry of Nudges

The title of this New York Times article sounds like a Monty Python sketch (intentionally, I guess). But the article is luckily quite a lot more serious, exploring... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 8, 2013 at 01:49 PM

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The psychology behind information dashboards

With its interactive and intuitive interface and its ability to visualize data in a single screen, the information dashboard is becoming a critical tool in the... Experientia
From Putting People First | December 6, 2013 at 09:39 AM