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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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Trust and the future of mobile money
Even within the technology community, 33% agreed with the below statement: “People will not trust the use of near-field communications devices and there will not...
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Internet must be a web not for the consumer, but for the citizen
In an editorial, The Guardian argues for an open web: “To protect the web’s founding principle is a matter of what Tim Berners-Lee would call citizen vigilance,...
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How to create products hand in hand with your customer
In his book “Wicked problems: Problems worth solving“, author John Kolko (founder and director of Austin Center for Design) argues that involving end users in the...
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How user research informed IKEA
IKEA’s new Uppleva Smart TV-furniture unit was extensively shown at the Milan Design Week (which ends today), and on Core77 I will write more today about the interface...
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Behaviour change as value proposition
Chris Risdon, senior experience designer at Adaptive Path, looks at the explosion of smart products, which passively collect data about you and your specific behavior...
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Intersection of the physical and digital worlds
Austin Brown, UX designer at EffectiveUI, and his colleague Lindsay Moore wondered if there was a way to design better, by combinubg the best aspects of interaction...
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Brains, Behavior and Design
Brains, Behavior and Design is a group of IIT Institute of Design students appling findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and behavioral economics to...
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Applying behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to the design process
Artefact is, like Experientia, a UX design consultancy that is strongly inspired by cognitive and behavioral modeling, and uses all kinds of inputs from cognitive...
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Tricia Wang on the geography of trust in social networks (video)
Tricia Wang is a cultural sociologist interested in understanding how people use digital tools in their day to day lives. In her talk at the Lift 12 conference,...
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The future of connected cars: what Audi is driving towards
Richard MacManus writes on ReadWriteWeb that the next generation of in-car apps will be about providing “smart” services, such as taking some of the cognitive load...
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Do walled gardens offer a better user experience?
In an extensive article by Charles Arthur, technology editor of The Guardian, on the rise of walled gardens (apps, social networks) on the net, we read this quote...
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Nest Thermostat: User-centered design is the best marketing
I enjoyed the final paragraph of the Fast.CoDesign article on the second generation Nest Thermostat: “Here
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The future of money in a mobile age
Within the next decade, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of payment and could largely replace cash and credit cards for most...
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The Smart City starts with you
Wired UK has published a guest post by Usman Haque, founder of Pachube.com and director at Haque Design + Research and CEO of Connected Environments, where he argues...
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Wearable devices: the next battleground for the platform wars
Wearable devices, or
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UX is the heart of any company. How do you make it top priority?
Wolff Olins
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People-powered health
People Powered Health is a programme from NESTA, the UK innovation charity, to support the design and delivery of innovative services for people that are living...
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Interactive eBook apps: the reinvention of reading and interactivity
Avi Itzkovitch argues that the experience of interactive eBooks should not be confined to animations based on touch-and-response interaction, or merely flipping...
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Design principles for complex, unpredictable, people oriented systems
InfoDesign alerts us to a well-thought through post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM on experience and systems: “But, socio-technical systems are oriented toward...
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