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Mayo Clinic on empathy and design
From Putting People First

Mayo Clinic on empathy and design

James Oliver Senior and Adam Dole, resp. designer and business planner at Mayo Clinic, argue that health-related apps often fail to take into account any understanding...

Service design talk by Anna Meroni in Sweden
From Putting People First

Service design talk by Anna Meroni in Sweden

Anna Meroni, PhD, is a scholar and professor in Service and Strategic Design at Politecnico di Milano. She works on design activism, social innovation and sustainability...

An introduction to Lean
From Putting People First

An introduction to Lean

Laurence McCahill, design lead and co-founder of Spook Studio, explores for .net magazine the Lean Startup and Lean UX movements, which bring a groundbreaking approach...

Who, Where, How We Work: The Intersection of Culture, Workplace, and Social Media
From Putting People First

Who, Where, How We Work: The Intersection of Culture, Workplace, and Social Media

What happens when designers & manufacturers discuss the workplace & social media? Dexigner reports that IIDA has published a whitepaper summary of the IIDA Industry...

Technology can push our crazy buttons, rewire brains
From Putting People First

Technology can push our crazy buttons, rewire brains

Our tech saturation has reached such a critical point that some experts say it’s rewiring our brains. Research psychologist and computer educator Larry Rosen of...

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Who are these companies and what do they want from me? Alexis Madrigal’s voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. “This morning, if you opened your...

Samsung criticised for lack of privacy protection on HD-TV
From Putting People First

Samsung criticised for lack of privacy protection on HD-TV

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Desire engines
From Putting People First

Desire engines

Nir Eyal’s third Techcrunch article on behavioural engineering, delves into the topic of “desire engines”. “Desire engines go beyond reinforcing behavior; they...

mBCC Field Guide for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Communication Programs
From Putting People First

mBCC Field Guide for Developing Mobile Behavior Change Communication Programs

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Futurescapes
From Putting People First

Futurescapes

FutureScapes, an open collaboration project by Sony and Forum for the Future, aims to bring together a range of expert thinkers, designers, futurologists, writers...

Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food
From Putting People First

Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food

Helsinki Street Eats: a book about everyday food By Bryan Boyer and Dan Hill, with contributions from Ville Tikka, Nuppu G

Behavior Driven Design 101
From Putting People First

Behavior Driven Design 101

Design is becoming an applied behavioral science, and your art school background is no longer sufficient, says Jason Hreha, behavior designer and UX advisor. “Fields...

Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti on incremental vs radical innovation
From Putting People First

Donald A. Norman and Roberto Verganti on incremental vs radical innovation

Donald A. Norman (of the Nielsen Norman Group) and Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano) have jointly published a paper entitled “Incremental and Radical Innovation...

User experience vision for startups
From Putting People First

User experience vision for startups

In a TechCrunch guest post by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple, outlines how he came to the conclusion that there

Four new chapters on interaction-design.org
From Putting People First

Four new chapters on interaction-design.org

Four new chapters of the interaction-design.org resource are now available: Requirements Engineering from an HCI Perspective by Alistair G. Sutcliffe The chapter...

BOOMERANG, death by gadget: the mobile phone
From Putting People First

BOOMERANG, death by gadget: the mobile phone

BOOMERANG, death by gadget : the mobile phone

The origin of futurism
From Putting People First

The origin of futurism

Bruce Sterling, the celebrated science fiction writer and author of Tomorrow Now, explains why you don’t need to be clairvoyant to predict the future. The article...

An update on the use of e-readers in Africa
From Putting People First

An update on the use of e-readers in Africa

What does it take to introduce e-books and e-readers into communities in low income countries — and is this a good idea, asks Michael Trucano on EduTech, a World...

On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage
From Putting People First

On the relationship between socio-economic factors and cell phone usage

The ubiquitous presence of cell phones in emerging economies has brought about a wide range of cell phone-based services for low-income groups. Often times, the...

Cognition and the intrinsic user experience
From Putting People First

Cognition and the intrinsic user experience

Over the past few years there’s been a lot of discussion around whether an experience can be designed. But it seems, writes Jordan Julien in UX Magazine, like everyone’s...
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