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SAP on visualising the future

As visual analytics architect in SAP’s User Experience team, John Armitage is responsible for creating designs and design concepts for SAP’s analytics products.... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 13, 2012 at 04:21 PM

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A social network built around giving

Model and actress Lily Cole’s social network, Impossible, has been designed for users to meet and help each other. Users post requests (say, “I wish to have a haircut”)... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 12, 2012 at 02:32 PM

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Augmented sensing through smartphones

So how are we doing to augment our senses through digital technologies? Here are some of the products currently on the market that allow people to augment their... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 12, 2012 at 02:15 PM

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Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion

Immediately a second post on writing done by Charles Leadbeater. Here he asks if we were to think of the future consumers of the developing world (whose income... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM

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Charles Leadbeater: Why cities need to be hospitable rather than smart

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From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 10:40 AM

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A huge chapter on

The people of the Interaction-Design.org Foundation have given us (and you) preview access to “Socio-Technical Systems Design”, the 24th chapter of the “Encyclopedia... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 08:14 AM

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Ethnographic research in a world of big data

Following up on her earlier piece on ethnographic research in a world of big data, Jenna Burrell, sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Information... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 11, 2012 at 08:01 AM

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Book: The Mobile Frontier

The Mobile Frontier – A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences By Rachel Hinman Rosenfeld Media June 2012 Publisher’s page | Amazon page Mobile user experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 02:01 PM

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Marty Kaplan: From Attention to Engagement (video)

Barcelona Media, an interdisciplinary center of research and innovation, hosted Lear Center director Marty Kaplan to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration on... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 01:50 PM

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Manifesto for design upholding human talents and innovation

This morning I got an invite in the mail to attend a London design symposium at Brunel University next week (16 June) that will debate the core themes of a new... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 09:30 AM

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Dark Matter and Trojan Horses

“Dark Matter and Trojan Horses – A Strategic Design Vocabulary” is a short e-book by designer and urbanist Dan Hill in which he argues that in an age of wicked... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 10, 2012 at 08:42 AM

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Genevieve Bell: women are tech

Social scientist Genevieve Bell – who is also the interaction and experience research director at Intel Labs – gave a major talk on what the future of technology... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 9, 2012 at 10:25 AM

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Mark Vanderbeeken: The English language innovation bias

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken wrote an article on the dominance of the English language in the discourse of innovation and the bias that this creates. This... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 8, 2012 at 07:57 AM

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The future of data visualisation

Drew Skau, a visualization architect of Visual.ly, explores what will change in data visualisation in the future: - Data visualization will become ubiquitous -... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 7, 2012 at 04:01 PM

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Does your phone know how happy you are?

Kit Eaton explores the coming of age of the emotion-recognition industry. “Because the smartphones we all carry contain sophisticated computing power, cloud computing... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 7, 2012 at 03:48 PM

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Computational user experiences at Microsoft Research

“The Computational User Experiences (CUE) group [at Microsoft Research] creates technologies that augment our personal and professional digital lives to enhance... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 7, 2012 at 03:41 PM

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Forget B-School, D-School is hot

The Wall Street Journal published the umpteenth article on design thinking education. What I keep on missing in these pieces is some reflection on what understanding... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 7, 2012 at 10:29 AM

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An open letter to the User Experience Community

In an open letter to the User Experience Community, Rich Gunther, President of what used to be called Usability Professionals Association (UPA), announces that... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 7, 2012 at 09:39 AM

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The Curious Case of Internet Privacy

Free services in exchange for personal information. That’s the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. Cory Doctorow argues it could be the worst deal ever.... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 6, 2012 at 11:15 AM

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Why are contextual inquiries so difficult?

Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, thinks contextual inquiry is the most difficult user research technique to perform effectively, as it... Experientia
From Putting People First | June 6, 2012 at 09:15 AM