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India: The Impact of Mobile Phones

Vodafone publishes a very good, but highly under-communicated, Public Policy series. The aim of the series is “to provide a platform for leading experts to write... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2009 at 11:18 AM

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When everyone zigs, Cory Doctorow zags

Just when everyone is writing on how mobile phones are bringing about huge changes in emerging markets, Cory Doctorow publishes a very nice and thought provoking... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2009 at 09:14 AM

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Taken Out of Context: American teen sociality in networked publics

danah boyd is a a PhD candidate at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California (Berkeley) and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2009 at 08:55 AM

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New phone features

The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research by Mformation (and reported by BBC) suggests. Some 61% of those interviewed... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 19, 2009 at 08:35 AM

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Itsme concept evaluation

Some months ago I wrote on Core77 about Itsme, a new “design-driven” way of organizing the contents of a PC, covering both the hardware and the software of the... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM

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Experience design for interactive products

Experience design for interactive products: designing technology augmented urban playgrounds for girls (pdf) is the long title of an interesting paper by Aadjan... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM

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People-centric sensing in the city of the near future

More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further: “In the past... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM

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Sensing the world with mobile devices

The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach: By putting mobile... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM

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Experientia and European research projects

Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for partners and interesting collaboration opportunities... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 09:57 AM

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Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design

As part of the World Usability Day 2008, the Department of Information Technology at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (V.I.I.T.), Pune (India) hosted... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 09:03 AM

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Interfaces Magazine

Thanks to Vodafone’s Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, I just discovered Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 08:33 PM

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This is iQ

Matthew Neal contacted me today about a design challenge Toyota recently gave to students at the Royal College of Art London to create a household item that represents... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 08:09 PM

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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.... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 08:00 PM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 07:54 PM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 07:43 PM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 14, 2009 at 07:20 PM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 12, 2009 at 10:08 AM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 11, 2009 at 07:53 PM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 6, 2009 at 08:18 PM

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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... Experientia
From Putting People First | January 6, 2009 at 12:32 PM