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Google
From Putting People First

Google

In a Q&A, user experience director Irene Au explains to Business Week how Google can manage design and consistency in its traditionally bottoms-up culture “As Google...

Social networking
From Putting People First

Social networking

Two-thirds of the world

Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?
From Putting People First

Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?

In a long post Roxanna Samii reports on her blog on the role of the mobile phone in developing countries, and more in particular on the Gash Barka region in Eritrea...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

Julian Bleecker of Nokia calls it a “short essay”, but “Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction” is really a 97 page book. “Extending...

Multi-touch looks set to kill the mouse
From Putting People First

Multi-touch looks set to kill the mouse

Darren Waters, technology editor at the BBC, reports from Austin, Texas on the future of touch: “The success of the iPhone has given rise to a new grammar of touch...

Innovation trickles in a new direction
From Putting People First

Innovation trickles in a new direction

Business Week reports on how some companies like General Electric, Nokia, and others are reversing the traditional process where products are created in rich nations...

Discussing the principles for a digital social enterprise
From Putting People First

Discussing the principles for a digital social enterprise

Over the last few months, Franco Papeschi and Tory Dunn of the Vodafone User Experience team have been doing work on a set of principles and guidelines to support...

Collaborative Services: social innovation and design for sustainability
From Putting People First

Collaborative Services: social innovation and design for sustainability

“What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will our daily lives become if we agree to change some of our routines? How do we reduce our environmental impact without...

The location of anything is becoming everything
From Putting People First

The location of anything is becoming everything

We live in the Global Location Age.

Service design at Kraft
From Putting People First

Service design at Kraft

Reena Jana of Business Week reports from SXSW on the activities of Moshe Tamssot, Kraft

A participatory website supporting families with disabled children
From Putting People First

A participatory website supporting families with disabled children

The Turin-based non-profit organisation Area, which supports families with disabled children, just launched its new website, developed with the intensive support...

NESTA launches innovation lab to improve UK public services
From Putting People First

NESTA launches innovation lab to improve UK public services

NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts, has set up The Lab, a new UK innovation structure that will bring together all the players...

Alan Cooper on the similarities between interaction designers and agile programmers
From Putting People First

Alan Cooper on the similarities between interaction designers and agile programmers

During the Agile 2008 conference, Amr Elssamadisy interviewed Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic and supporter of interaction design. He talked about his contact...

What Matters at McKinsey
From Putting People First

What Matters at McKinsey

Consulting firm McKinsey has just launched a new website, called What Matters, that is an extensive collection of essays and interviews with opinion formers around...

Designing the democratic
From Putting People First

Designing the democratic

Jamie Owen, a visual information specialist for a training arm of the USA Department of Veterans Affairs argues on Boxes and Arrows that thinking outside of our...

Case study: gestural entertainment center for Canesta
From Putting People First

Case study: gestural entertainment center for Canesta

Jennifer Bove, a former Interaction-Ivrea student, sent me a link to a case study on a gestural entertainment center that she and a team at Kicker Studio developed...

SustainIT - a supplement worth reading
From Putting People First

SustainIT - a supplement worth reading

The Independent today introduced SustainIT, the first in a series of three monthly supplements on ICT and globalisation. Some of the articles in the supplement...

Tactical tech
From Putting People First

Tactical tech

Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy...

An anthropologist gone techno
From Putting People First

An anthropologist gone techno

Jukka Jouhki (blog), an anthropologist and post-doc researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyv

Social media is here to stay
From Putting People First

Social media is here to stay

danah boyd, a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, just joined Microsoft Research New England On 29 February, she gave her first...
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