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Izmo Summer School 2011
From Putting People First

Izmo Summer School 2011

Izmo, the Italian association focused on participatory process, local development, architecture, design and ICT, organizes an International Summer School in Torino...

New RSA Journal out
From Putting People First

New RSA Journal out

The Summer 2011 edition of the RSA Journal explores the relationship between business and social change. Brand values As the social, political and commercial spheres...

Smartphones could mean end of web
From Putting People First

Smartphones could mean end of web

The proliferation of powerful mobile phones could see control of the internet pass into the hands of corporations, positions John Naughton in The Observer today...

Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft
From Putting People First

Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft

Jacquelyn Krones, a Senior Product Manager from Microsoft, is in charge of an ongoing ethnographic research project on understanding search behavior.

User experience design principles
From Putting People First

User experience design principles

During the conference “An Event Apart” (AEA) in Boston, UX designer Whitney Hess gave a talk entitled “Create design principles and use them to establish a philosophy...

Interaction designers convene in Florence
From Putting People First

Interaction designers convene in Florence

Greg Williams reports in Wired UK on the recent Frontiers of Interaction conference in Florence, Italy. “Few people need an excuse to spend time in Florence, so...

The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience
From Putting People First

The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience

In a blog post, Justin Mifsud discuss the terms usability and user experience, highlighting their differences and more importantly the relationship that exists...

How technology makes us better social beings
From Putting People First

How technology makes us better social beings

Sociologist Keith Hampton (University of Pennsylvania) believes technology and social networking affect our lives in some very positive ways

Study finds that memory works differently in the age of Google
From Putting People First

Study finds that memory works differently in the age of Google

The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy...

Technology and moral panic
From Putting People First

Technology and moral panic

Why is it that some technologies cause moral panic and others don

UX and the design of news at BBC World Service
From Putting People First

UX and the design of news at BBC World Service

Tammy Gur, Head of Design, BBC World Service Future Media, explains the work of the BBC’s user experience and design team which designs and develops news sites...

A wearable wristband to track health, fight obesity
From Putting People First

A wearable wristband to track health, fight obesity

Jawbone announces Up, a wearable wristband to track health, fight obesity. A combination of a sensor-infused wristband and a smartphone app will provide nudges...

Why UX practitioners should join the Government 2.0 movement
From Putting People First

Why UX practitioners should join the Government 2.0 movement

One of the most important relationships people have is with government. Cyd Harrell explores what this means for the user experience community. “One of the most...

New handset, new life
From Putting People First

New handset, new life

The Mobile Work Life Project is a Ryerson university-based research project funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Its aim is to...

Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future
From Putting People First

Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future

Jim Whitehurst, chief executive and president of Red Hat Inc., the only publicly traded open-source software company, sees user collaboration as the wave of the...

Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities
From Putting People First

Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities

Design Flanders ["Design Vlaanderen"] and the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (both in Belgium) have just published a bilingual Dutch-English booklet...

Inside Google
From Putting People First

Inside Google

Smashing Magazine author Dan Redding interviewed Marcin Wichary, Senior User Experience Designer at Google. “Marcin Wichary

Social Circles
From Putting People First

Social Circles

Usability consultant Frank Spillers writes that he the recent release of Google’s social circles (part of the new ‘Google +’ social network) constitutes a social...

Smart Design
From Putting People First

Smart Design

Smart Design’s think tank presents an ongoing discussion of how gender should be included in good design – all published in a new series on Fast Company. The Femme...

Let
From Putting People First

Let

Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter, explores how the social experience of real shopping can help improve web retail, and how the online social shopping experience...
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