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New report: Mobile phones as media platforms in the global south

African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors. Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends Experientia
From Putting People First | February 1, 2009 at 11:27 AM

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35 Picnic conference videos

On Vimeo you can find no less than 35 videos of the Picnic conference. They are great. My personal favourites (quite a few): Jim Stolze: The virtual happiness project... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 31, 2009 at 02:31 PM

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Dopplr designer Matt Jones on bionic noticing

Reporting on PSFK’s Good Ideas Salon yesterday in London, Guardian writer Jemima Kiss highlights the presentation by Dopplr designer Matt Jones: He sees mobile... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM

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W3C workshop on the future of social networking

A few weeks ago, W3C, the body in charge of global web standards directed by Tim Berners-Lee, organised a Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 31, 2009 at 12:03 PM

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An experience designer at a technology company

Clive Grinyer wrote a highly honest, yet optimistic post about his experience of working in a hardcore technology company (Cisco) as a user experience designer.... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 29, 2009 at 05:13 PM

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Laurent Haug, an entrepreneur based in Geneva, Switzerland and founder of the LIFT conference, launches a new concept: publicy. “What happens with social networks... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 29, 2009 at 12:03 PM

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Mike Kuniavsky detangling the meanings around the design of services

Mike Kuniavsky (ThingM) is currently writing a ubicomp user experience design book. He just posted a few tidbits on service design: “There are two fundamental ways... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 29, 2009 at 07:35 AM

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Pachube: connecting environments, patching the planet

Pachube is a web service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 29, 2009 at 07:24 AM

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Interactions Jan/Feb

The entire contents of the January-February 2009 edition of Interactions Magazine are now available online. Enjoy. (via InfoDesign) Experientia
From Putting People First | January 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM

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The next digital experience

The Davos session on the “Next Digital Experience” involving Hamid Akhavan (Deutsche Telekom), Eric K. Clemons (The Wharton School), Chad Hurley (YouTube), Craig... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 28, 2009 at 09:30 AM

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New blog series on media practices in international contexts

A new blog series, New Media Practices in International Contexts, looks at the intersection of youth, new media and learning in a range of countries outside of... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 28, 2009 at 07:06 AM

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User experience deliverables

Peter Morville (author of Ambient Findability) and Jeffery Callender (co-author of Search Patterns) are planning a new book (in process) about design for discovery... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 28, 2009 at 06:51 AM

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Service design is simple. It

“Service design is simple. It’s all about three things,” says Idris Mootee, a business and innovation strategist, “creating compelling user benefits, optimising... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 28, 2009 at 06:35 AM

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Call centres and user-centred design

Robert Schumacher, managing Director of User Centric, has published a long article in the Financial Post of Canada on the user-centred design challenge of call... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 27, 2009 at 11:25 AM

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Two Experientia workshops at the upcoming LIFT conference

Experientia, in collaboration with the Vodafone User Experience team, is running two workshops on 25 February at the upcoming LIFT conference to present the results... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 27, 2009 at 10:24 AM

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Book: Designing Social Interfaces

Designing Social Interfaces Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone O’Reilly Media and Yahoo! Press... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 27, 2009 at 09:24 AM

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Dissolving service design

Dan Saffer, who together with Interaction-Ivrea alumni Jennifer Bove, recently started the interaction design studio Kicker, is working on a revision of his book... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 27, 2009 at 09:05 AM

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Matt Jones on Dopplr

Experientia
From Putting People First | January 27, 2009 at 08:53 AM

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The OLPC versus the mobile phone - a false dichotomy

Katrin Verclas of Mobile Active reports on the ongoing debate over the value of cheap and open laptops for users in developing countries as opposed to mobile phones... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 26, 2009 at 08:39 PM

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The unforeseen consequences of the social web

Lidija Davis reflects on ReadWriteWeb on the consequences of what you do on social media and its traces that cannot be easily removed from the Web. The social Web... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 26, 2009 at 01:28 PM