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[Book] The Corruption of Co-Design
From Putting People First

[Book] The Corruption of Co-Design

Political and Social Conflicts in Participatory Design Thinking

[Book] OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes
From Putting People First

[Book] OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes

These are guidelines for any individual or organisation interested in designing, planning, and implementing a citizen participation process. The guidelines walk...

Human-Centered Design: what architects can learn from UX designers
From Putting People First

Human-Centered Design: what architects can learn from UX designers

Approaching architectural design with a UX designer’s mindset ensures a more holistic approach to designing the experience of using a building. From the outset,...

[Book] Service Design for Urban Commons
From Putting People First

[Book] Service Design for Urban Commons

This book explores the application of service design to urban commons, focusing on the Reggio Emilia Ducal Palace in Italy.

Why paying individual people for their health data is a bad idea
From Putting People First

Why paying individual people for their health data is a bad idea

Paying individual people for their health data will widen inequalities and reduce altruism, luring people to sell their privacy. Health data should instead be treated...

Perspectives on the value of ethnography in a future-focused world
From Putting People First

Perspectives on the value of ethnography in a future-focused world

In an uncertain world, the safe bet to futures is to explore, identify and invest in what will most likely not change.

User research & Engineering: better together during discovery
From Putting People First

User research & Engineering: better together during discovery

Julia Tan and Carolina Aldas of Spotify provide some recommendations on how user research and Engineering can improve their collaboration during the Discovery Phase...

A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods
From Putting People First

A Guide to Using User-Experience Research Methods

Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3...

“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance
From Putting People First

“Democracy depends on it”: Carissa Véliz on privacy and ending data surveillance

“There is nothing shocking or radical about ending an economic practice that has too many negative externalities. We have banned certain kinds of economic activity...

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds
From Putting People First

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

Physical buttons are increasingly rare in modern cars. Most manufacturers are switching to touchscreens – which perform far worse in a test carried out by Swedish...

How Touchless User Interfaces Can Amplify the User Experience
From Putting People First

How Touchless User Interfaces Can Amplify the User Experience

A touchless UI has an edge over devices that require touch interactions because decreasing physical contact is helpful in diverse contexts—from food-processing...

Harvard Business Review discovers design fiction
From Putting People First

Harvard Business Review discovers design fiction

By force of habit, most executives tune down their imagination when strategizing. This is counterproductive, the authors argue. Instead, they offer an alternative...

[Book] The Digital Republic
From Putting People First

[Book] The Digital Republic

How can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?

An anthropologist on talking about the metaverse
From Putting People First

An anthropologist on talking about the metaverse

How we describe the metaverse makes a difference – today’s words could shape tomorrow’s reality and who benefits from it

Are digital IDs a “digital road to hell”?
From Putting People First

Are digital IDs a “digital road to hell”?

A report by researchers at New York University warns that biometric and other digital ID systems that are increasingly linked to large-scale human rights violations...

[Book] Everyday Automation
From Putting People First

[Book] Everyday Automation

The first book to take an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how our everyday lives are being affected by automated decision-making.

[Book] Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future
From Putting People First

[Book] Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future

Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the...

[Book] Design Ethnography
From Putting People First

[Book] Design Ethnography

This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional...

Special issue on machine anthropology
From Putting People First

Special issue on machine anthropology

Bringing together a motley crew of social scientists and data scientists, the aim of this special theme issue of Big Data & Society is to explore what an integration...

Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI
From Putting People First

Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI

“All research is qualitative; some is also quantitative” Harvard Social Scientist and Statistician Gary King
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