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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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Creating informal learning environments
In the field of exhibition design, the quality of User Experience makes the difference between success and failure. When designing exhibits for museums or science...
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Announcing the IxDA Interaction Awards
Today, the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) announced the launch of the IxDA Interaction Awards, a first-of-its-kind awards program dedicated to celebrating...
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Reflecting on the book
I just finished reading Living with Complexity by Donald A. Norman (previously announced here) and consider an important contribution to our field, and this for...
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Book: Designing Media by Bill Moggridge
Designing Media, the new book by Bill Moggridge, director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and founder of IDEO, is now available in hard copy, as a DVD...
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U DriveIT
Norden, the Nordic Innovation Center, has published the results of a research project between Denmark, Norway and Iceland, that explored the increasingly strong...
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Understanding communities through ethnography
Digital marketing expert Dhiren Shingadia interviewed ethnographer and technology researcher Tricia Wang to learn how ethnography can provide new insights for companies...
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The Absent Peer
Sebastian Greger, social interaction designer, internet sociologist and post-graduate student at the Media Lab of the Aalto University School of Art and Design...
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Interview with Motorola UX designer Hwang Sung-gul
The Korean partner newspaper of the International Herald Tribune today published an interview with Hwang Sung-gul, the creative designer of mobile devices at Motorola...
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Collaborative design strategies for community technology
Organizations designing for marginalized populations have many design approaches to inform their efforts to enact lasting change. Some are adapted from first-world...
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The experience design of a Japanese zoo
A couple of weeks ago the Design Center Busan (in Busan, South Korea) organised its first International Design Congress. The speakers featured not only the writer...
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Korea
The autumn issue of Koreana, the quarterly devoted to Korean art and culture, contains a special feature on Korea’s smartphone era. The articles come in a range...
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Digital U
Digital U (Youtube) is the the first television/web series to examine how the internet and social media is changing the world around us. Digital U is an eight-part...
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The public square goes mobile
Allison Arieff writes in the New York Times Opinionator blog extensively on how citizens harness technology to offer up solutions to problems in their communities...
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Car or computer? How transport is becoming more connected
The amount of data that can now be collected about how drivers use their cars is unprecedented, reports the BBC, and the impact of so much information is potentially...
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The iPhone experience in Samsung
Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Apple
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Experientia
Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently became one of Canvas8
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Governments benefit from embracing new technologies to engage with citizens
Governments around the world must continue to embrace social media and other new technologies because besides empowering citizens new technologies bring in a “myriad...
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Evaluating Nordic Living Labs
Over the past decade, Living Labs have become an established part of local and regional innovation systems, using a variety of methods and tools, and focusing on...
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Mobile user experience trends on the horizon
Marek Pawlowski, the founder of MEX, explores in UX Magazine several future trends he expects to be of significance for UX practitioners as the balance of user...