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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 trust economy: A world of P2P money-lending
Wired UK has published a long article on P2P money-lending in its June issue: The article devotes particular attention to Kiva.org, a San Francisco-based peer-to...
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Can business analysts become UX designers?
Mike Gualtieri and Mary Gerush of Forrester Research have just published a paper entitled Business Analysts: Seize the opportunity to deliver compelling user experiences...
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Researchers study behavior in social networks
Research scientists Cameron Marlow (Facebook Inc.) and D.J. Patil (LinkedIn Corp.) have access to the interactions of groups of people that outnumber populations...
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The reality of social media
Adrian Chan has written a thoughtful post about “teasing apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what
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Philips Design
The latest issue of new value by design, the Philips Design newsletter, contains three short articles that sit closely to what we cover in this blog: Self Health...
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Tell-all generation learns to keep things offline
Members of the under 30 tell-all generation are rethinking what it means to live out loud. “The conventional wisdom suggests that everyone under 30 is comfortable...
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Homesense project launched
Tinker London (the people behind Arduino) started a collaboration with EDF R&D on Homesense, an open user-centered research project investigating the use of smart...
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Ferrari F10 steering wheel is usability horror
Every year, Ferrari fields a team in the Formula One championship, and dumps around $400 million into developing and racing the car. So, says Cliff Kuang in Fast...
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Service Design Thinks
Nick Marsh has been organising several service design ‘Thinks’ events in London: ‘Service Design at Scale’ (November 2009) and ‘Service Design from Scratch’ (March...
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Peter Merholz: The Want Interview
The founder & president of Adaptive Path explains why they
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Bill Moggridge blogs
Bill Moggridge, the legendary industrial and interaction designer, IDEO co-founder and now director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, started his own...
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The many differences between mobile and desktop interaction
Interacting with a mobile device is very different from our interaction with desktop devices. But what does that mean precisely? In a long article for the Journal...
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Reading in a digital age
Sven Birkerts wites in the American Scholar on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary...
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Findability and Exploration: the future of search
Stijn Debrouwere, a Belgian information architect, has published a long Peter Morville-inspired post on findability related issues. “The majority of people visiting...
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Smart Things
After posting the first chapter of his new book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design (see also this earlier post), Mike Kuniavsky is now doing...
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What
The concept of social objects is pretty widely used in social interaction design, but we
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