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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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The Internet of Things comic book
The Danish Alexandra Institute has just released a comic book called “Inspiring the Internet of Things,” which explains the benefits of networking everyday objects...
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Audio of EPIC 2011 presentations
The organisers of the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry (EPIC 2011) conference have posted audio of the keynotes and most of the presentations. The conference took...
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Want to create a great product? First, forget
User-friendliness is the inevitable result of a smart design approach, not the starting point. Robert Hoekman, Jr lists three criteria to help you develop a useful...
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Intentional environments: designing a culture of co-creation
Elements such as social dynamics, communication styles, and creative inspiration deeply affect our experience of work and what we create. While most of us don’t...
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Games, Life and Utopia conference
Games, Life and Utopia is a half-day event in Pottsdam, Germany on 11 November, that is all about gamification, serious games, learning and play. It
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Philips launches
Today Philips presented its latest forward looking design project
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Metamemory and the user experience
When people expect to be able to access information in the future, they tend to have reduced memory for the actual information, but enhanced memory for where to...
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Cadillac User Experience (CUE)
Last week, Cadillac launched its new “CUE” vehicle infotainment system. The name is an acronym that stands for Cadillac User Experience
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The psychology of UX
When UX designer Vanessa Carey read Susan Weinschenk’s article “The Psychologist’s View of UX Design” (published in UXMag last year), she decided to explore each...
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The rise of cross-channel UX design
“Seamless, cross-channel experiences are the way of the future, as technology fades into the background and the personal, physical, and social context determine...
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Data visualisation: in defence of bad graphics
Simon Rogers asks on The Guardian’s DataBlog if there is a backlash gathering steam against web data visualisations. “There has definitely been a shift. A few years...
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Service design, the most important term you haven
James Rock, the managing director and chief business designer for Cultivar Consulting Limited, a business and services design consultancy, talks about service design...
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Brian David Johnson: Intel
Alex Knapp, Forbes Magazine contributor, talks with Intel futurist Brian David Johnson on what he take into account when planning the future: “The answer is both...
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The many meanings of ethnography
Ethnography, Ethnography or Ethnography? What Happens When the Same Word Means Different Things to Different People? is the title of a new paper on ethnography...
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dConstruct 2011 videos online
dConstruct 2011, the 2 September event in Brighton, England, brought together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and ubiquitous...
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Mr Cameron, it
Ageing populations and budget cuts mean devising a new social contract. So why not use real designers
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Guardian Tech Weekly podcast: creating a digital public space
Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space with the British Library, the Royal Opera House and the BBC. “How can we preserve analogue culture in a digital...
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