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Jan-Christoph Zoels on interfaces at UNStudio during Milan Design Week [video]
From Putting People First

Jan-Christoph Zoels on interfaces at UNStudio during Milan Design Week [video]

Jan-Christoph Zoels, an Experientia founding partner, was one of the panelists at the UNStudio Platform Dialogues during the Milan Design Week and a video of his...

Steampunking interaction design and other Interaction Magazine articles
From Putting People First

Steampunking interaction design and other Interaction Magazine articles

Interactions Magazine is no longer the influential voice in the interaction design community that it used to be a few years ago. Lots of the reason why has to do...

Video online of Milan debate: “The Long View of Interaction Design”
From Putting People First

Video online of Milan debate: “The Long View of Interaction Design”

The people behind the upcoming IxDA Interaction14 conference organized on 6 April a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Design”. 5 panelists...

Plant Wars player patterns: visualization as scaffolding for ethnographic insight
From Putting People First

Plant Wars player patterns: visualization as scaffolding for ethnographic insight

The latest contribution to Ethnomining, the April 2013 Ethnographymatters edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data, edited by Nicolas Nova, is by...

How will Big Data change design research?
From Putting People First

How will Big Data change design research?

Dave McColgin of Artefact writes about the relationship of design research to the ultimate outcome-focused research tool: Big Data. “Big Data [...] provides us...

Report: Survey of European schools on ICT in education
From Putting People First

Report: Survey of European schools on ICT in education

This study collected and benchmarked information from 31 European countries (EU27, HR, ICE, NO and TR) on the access, use, competence and attitudes of students...

Low2No smart services workbook by Experientia
From Putting People First

Low2No smart services workbook by Experientia

As part of Experientia’s involvement in the award winning Low2No project in Helsinki and in particular its strategy towards demand management and behavioral change...

David Cannadine, Alice Rawsthorn and Dave Coplin – videos to watch on the RSA site
From Putting People First

David Cannadine, Alice Rawsthorn and Dave Coplin – videos to watch on the RSA site

Common Humanity: Making ‘us vs. them’ history [20:09] Presentation at RSA on 14 March 2013 Sir David Cannadine, one of Britain’s most distinguished historians visits...

Five reasons why kids need special user research
From Putting People First

Five reasons why kids need special user research

Sabina Idler, who runs a UX research company in Amsterdam, provides five reasons why kids need special attention when it comes to user research: 1. Kids form their...

How Facebook design researchers evaluate the first-time user experience
From Putting People First

How Facebook design researchers evaluate the first-time user experience

Chris Dannen, the editor of Co.Labs at FastCompany, sat down with Facebook UX Researcher Marco De Sa to learn his thoughts on enticing first-time users. The interview...

CGAP CEO: Human-centered design for the Base of the Pyramid
From Putting People First

CGAP CEO: Human-centered design for the Base of the Pyramid

Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO of CGAP (the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, affiliated with the Worldbank), writes about how his organization has used human-centered...

Book: Hidden in Plain Sight (by Jan Chipchase)
From Putting People First

Book: Hidden in Plain Sight (by Jan Chipchase)

Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow’s Customers by Jan Chipchase Harper Collins Publishers April 2013 256 pages (Amazon link)...

Videos online of March 2013 Healthcare Experience Design conference
From Putting People First

Videos online of March 2013 Healthcare Experience Design conference

On March 25, the Healthcare Experience Design (HxD) conference took place in Boston. Speakers discussed how human centered design and design thinking can improve...

iHub Nairobi welcomes Michele Visciola
From Putting People First

iHub Nairobi welcomes Michele Visciola

Michele Visciola, Experientia’s president and user research director, will speak at Kenya’s iHub this week, on Friday 19th April. Michele is currently in Nairobi...

Report: People Powered Health
From Putting People First

Report: People Powered Health

People Powered Health: Health For People, By People and With People by Matthew Horne, Halima Khan and Paul Corrigan April 2013 – 58 pages NESTA, UK This report,...

Right to erasure protects people’s freedom to forget the past, says expert
From Putting People First

Right to erasure protects people’s freedom to forget the past, says expert

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger says the ability to forget our past, both on and offline, is an essential part of what makes us human. “The more I’ve worked on data protection...

Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes?
From Putting People First

Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes?

Does design thinking address quick fixes at the expense of root causes, asks John Thackara, referring to “Why the d.school has its limits,” a provocative article...

Rx: Human nature
From Putting People First

Rx: Human nature

Why doesn’t a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free chlorine...

To Dwell Is To Garden: An empathic approach to employee experience design
From Putting People First

To Dwell Is To Garden: An empathic approach to employee experience design

Liana Dragoman writes on UX magazine about the role of experience design in employee empowerment. “It has become increasingly important for customer-focused organizations...

Book: Interviewing Users (by Steve Portigal)
From Putting People First

Book: Interviewing Users (by Steve Portigal)

Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal Rosenfeld Media To be published: early May 2013 Interviewing is a foundational user research...
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