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Design research: what is it and why do it?
From Putting People First

Design research: what is it and why do it?

In a long post on reBoot, Panthea Lee has laid out some basic principles, approaches, and tools of design research so public institutions can better understand...

Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell
From Putting People First

Review: Paul Dourish & Genevieve Bell

Michiel De Lange has published a very long and somewhat critical review of the book Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing by Paul...

Good mobile experiences unfold and progressively reveal their nature
From Putting People First

Good mobile experiences unfold and progressively reveal their nature

Successful PC and mobile experiences are built on fundamentally different conceptual models and leverage different psychological functions of the user, argues Rachel...

Art that interacts if you interface
From Putting People First

Art that interacts if you interface

The New York Times reviews Paola Antonelli’s “Talk to Me” show at the Museum of Modern Art. “At its best

Digital fluency: empowering all students
From Putting People First

Digital fluency: empowering all students

Liz Losh writes on DMLCentral on an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to

Are we becoming too analytical?
From Putting People First

Are we becoming too analytical?

Or, why did Google PowerMeter fail? In his latest post, James Landay questions whether over-analysis of data gets in the way of designing a product that truly understands...

Design for Social Innovation: an interview with Ezio Manzini
From Putting People First

Design for Social Innovation: an interview with Ezio Manzini

Ezio Manzini is an Italian design strategist, one of the world

The UX of learning
From Putting People First

The UX of learning

Learning is a complex process with distinct stages, each with corresponding tasks and emotions. Understanding how users learn can help us design experiences that...

The future of learning
From Putting People First

The future of learning

New research findings from a global study of education systems suggest that the promise of a hi-tech, high-skills, high-wage future for kids is a fantasy. Does...

Jakob Nielsen report on intranet portals
From Putting People First

Jakob Nielsen report on intranet portals

Jakob Nielsen has published a new report with 19 new case studies of enterprise portals. It finds slow growth in new features. The focus is instead on robust integration...

Online security for regular people is a disaster
From Putting People First

Online security for regular people is a disaster

Online security for regular people like you and me is a disaster. It’s a killer app waiting to be designed. When you have a smartphone with some apps and a computer...

Ten Ways to Redesign Design Competitions
From Putting People First

Ten Ways to Redesign Design Competitions

John Thackara has been a juror on a series of sustainability and design competitions recently. And he has become a bit frustrated. Most of them, he says, miss their...

UI Design: an all-American product that
From Putting People First

UI Design: an all-American product that

Rob Tannen argues that user interface design is the most original and influential design coming out of the United States today. “It is the emphasis on user-centered...

Detroit copies Torino
From Putting People First

Detroit copies Torino

(English translation of article published yesterday in La Stampa newspaper – author Andrea Rossi): Michigan delegation between the cabbages and the red peppers...

Report published on Behaviour Change
From Putting People First

Report published on Behaviour Change

The main conclusion of the Behaviour Change report, published today by the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, is that ‘nudging’ on its own...

From Putting People First

Interestingly, the badly designed user interface of the in-car telematics system was the primary gripe among Ford and Lincoln owners and lessees in the latest J...

Beyond the cubicle
From Putting People First

Beyond the cubicle

Allison Arieff talks in her New York Times Opinionator blog about the design of work. Paraphrasing Nathan Shedroff, she states that furniture is not the problem...

Design and behaviourism: a brief review
From Putting People First

Design and behaviourism: a brief review

Dan Lockton is publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis

CHI Sparks conference
From Putting People First

CHI Sparks conference

On June 23, CHI Netherlands organised Chi Sparks, its bi-annual conference, and the keynote videos are now available. The theme of this year

Talk to Me
From Putting People First

Talk to Me

In her New York Times review of Talk to Me (online journal), the latest exhibition by Paola Antonelli at the MoMA, Alice Rawsthorn describes what could be considered...
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