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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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Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo
Peter Merholz, President of Adaptive Path, has published the first part of an interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo....
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Seeing other people
Social networking has become an integral part of our lives, but how much say will users have in what they do with social networking and what it looks like? This...
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IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace
Both Penny Edwards (Headshift) and Bill Ives (Fast Forward) report on recent IBM research on social software in the marketplace: To what extent does your company...
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Don
I find articles with titles like this difficult to digest. What if you are under 30? And especially if the article is filled with banalities - partly put in the...
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Book: Elsewhere, U.S.A.
Elsewhere, U.S.A. How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety by Dalton...
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10 most common misconceptions about user experience design
Whitney Hess, an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant, asked some of the most influential and widely respected [USA] practitioners in UX...
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Smart homes haven
New York Times technology reporter Steve Lohr reports on the “dream” of the smart home. “Yet the smart home has remained a dream for years, just over the horizon...
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The 5 D
Niti Bhan wrote a long article on Core77 on marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid. “The premise of the fortune at the base of the pyramid (BoP) is based on the...
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Nokia
Nearly by accident I discovered Nokia’s recently launched IdeasProject, an effort “to surface Big Ideas about the future of communications — and to show the many...
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On futures and design
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, researcher director at the Institute for the Future, has posted a thoughtful essay on his blog about how trends in computing and design might...
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People-centred design in times of frugality
The current economic recession is turning out to be very severe (The Guardian evokes the spectre of a 1930s-style depression), with rich countries being the biggest...
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M-banking and economic development
Jonathan Donner of Microsoft Research India and Camilo Andres Tellez of the London School of Economics and Political Science have together written a paper on mobile...
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Why products fail
Computerworld columnist Mike Elgan argues that most gadget and software makers don’t understand what users want most: control. Both users and product designers...
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Focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can
John Maeda, the new president of RISD, wrote some smart words in Esquire (where he was profiled as one of 75 most influential people): “Technological advances have...
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interactions magazine: time for some change
The January-February 2009 issue of Interactions Magazine has just been launched, which in itself is a celebration of the fantastic transformation of the magazine...
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Focussing on consumer needs is now more crucial than ever
Tuning up your focus on customer needs is more crucial than ever, writes business and innovation strategist Idris Mootee. Customers always have problems to solve...
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Watch the video - Mobile Banking for Poor People: Pioneer Perspectives
Last week, the World Bank’s CGAP hosted a roundtable and webinar on the important topic of how mobile phone banking can deliver a range of financial services to...
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