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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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Social TV and the second screen
Social TV is a major disruption in the rapidly changing television industry. In the free report “Social TV and the second screen“, Stowe Boyd, acclaimed futurist...
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To really understand social media, you must also understand online communities
When we talk about social media we are really only talking about tools that we can use to help us and the people we engage to achieve a task. To make a success...
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The demise of the ethnographic monograph
As ethnographic practice has spilled out into the broader world of design and policy-making, business strategy and marketing, the monograph has not remained the...
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Extending the experience beyond the device
Tim Todish provides some good examples of companies extending the (user) experience beyond the device as a good way to differentiate from the competition. “Most...
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A retrospective of talks given by ethnographers at Lift Conference since 2006
Of all the conferences that are dedicated to discussions on technology and society, there
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Researching meaning: making sense of behaviour
In his last article Simon Norris, founder and CEO of Nomensa, outlined a simple model
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Gamification and UX: where users win or lose
In this long article, Peter Steen H
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Do people want touch on laptop screens?
Do people want touch on laptop screens? Daria Loi, user experience manager at Intel, did some research on the matter and the answer is a clear yes: people want...
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Communicating the UX value proposition
John Dilworth and Matt Miller of LDS Church provide an overall framework to communicate the value of UX within businesses, that directly associates the value proposition...
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How mobile technologies are shaping a new generation
Some interesting data by Tamara J. Erickson on what she calls the “Re-Generation”: individuals at the formative ages of 11 to 13, those born after about 1995 [which...
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Design Council revealed new designs to help people live well with dementia
The UK Design Council, in partnership with the UK Department of Health, ran a national competition to find teams of designers and experts who could develop new...
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The Kickstarter revolution
The first campaign to break the 1-million-dollar barrier in this revolutionary crowd-funding platform was an industrial design project. Could Kickstarter transform...
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The process of co-creation with users
In an article for UX Magazine, Catalina Naranjo-Bock provides a solid general description of co-designing processes: “The practice of co-design allows users to...
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Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users
Social media in particular has inexorably changed the world, driving openness and fear
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The flight from conversation
Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says we use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just...
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Rise of smart mobile services
Saar Gur, general partner at Charles River Ventures, discusses a new generation of smart mobile services, which provide user information in the background to make...
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From print to iPad: designing a reading experience
UX consultant Harry Brignull spoke at UX London 2012 about the design of The Week magazine
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