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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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UXPA’s latest User Experience Magazine is freely available online
User Experience is the quarterly magazine of the UXPA, the User Experience Professional Association. From now on, each new issue is available online, in a responsive...
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Jake Barton of Local Projects wins USA’s National Award for Interaction Design
We at Experientia have always admired the work of Jake Barton and his company Local Projects, for the way that they have deeply woven people’s narration and storytelling...
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How do you interview an interview specialist?
Ethnography Matters took on a difficult challenge with this interview of Steve Portigal about his new book “Interviewing Users“. EM: In your 18 years in this business...
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‘Open Data’ brings potential and perils for governments
Governments and public officials are rushing to embrace the concept of Open Data, throwing open the vast panoply of publicly collected information for the digitally...
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How GE uses data visualization to tell complex stories
GE, perhaps more than any other major company, is dedicated to the use of data visualization as a key part of its marketing and communications efforts. Stemming...
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Libraries: a canvas for creating meaningful UX
Amanda L. Goodman is the User Experience Librarian at Darien Library in Connecticut. In this article for UX Magazine, she writes about her experience as a librarian...
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Interviewing Users book – Special offers for Putting People First readers
A few weeks ago, I announced Interviewing Users, the new book by Steve Portigal published by Rosenfeld Media. It is now available for purchase, both in print and...
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Tweeting Minarets: joining quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
In the last post of the EthnographyMatters Ethnomining edition (edited by Nicolas Nova), David Ayman Shamma @ayman gives a personal perspective on mixed methods...
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It’s time to reinvent the Personal Computer
Although Windows and Macintosh are both showing their age, Michael Mace of Cera Technology thinks there is enormous opportunity for a renaissance in personal computing...
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Design for Public Good, a new report for the European Commission
The UK Design Council and three other members of the SEE Platform (Sharing Experience Europe) – the Danish Design Centre, Design Wales and Aalto University, Finland...
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Designing for the multi-user: missed by Apple, Google and others
The iPad is a multi-user device according to industry reports, writes Frank Spillers. But you wouldn’t know it from picking up even the latest generation iPad,...
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Write-up on Michele Visciola’s talk at iHub, Kenya
Michele Visciola, President and Founding Partner of Experientia, gave a talk at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya, last week (see also this earlier post). The aim of the talk...
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Talking Design With Intel’s Todd Harple
We cordially invite you to Experientia’s inaugural “Talking Design” evening. On Wednesday May 8th, at 18.00, we are excited to have Intel’s Todd Harple speaking...
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London exhibition explores alternative Britain governed by four extreme lifestyle tribes
Belching cars made of skin and bones, nuclear-powered trains in the shape of mountains and arrow-like formations of joined recumbent bicycles are just some of the...
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UK ‘Nudge Unit’ to be privatised
The UK’s Behavioural Insights Team – known as the “nudge unit” – will join with a commercial partner and become the first policy unit to be spun out of Whitehall...
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Developing digital books with user-centred design
Digital books are software. The more interactive the experience, the more complex that software is to develop – and the greater the risk of creating a digital product...
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Exploring Problem-framing through Behavioural Heuristics
Article published in the April 2013 issue of the International Journal of Design By Dan Lockton, David J. Harrison, Rebecca Cain, Neville A. Stanton, & Paul Jennings...
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Unpaid internships are harming the design industry
Mark Busse calls on the design industry to set a higher standard (and as a company which has always paid its interns, we endorse this call): ” Employers, especially...
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Documentary examines the end of print books
People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only...
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