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How focus on UX helped gov.uk win design of the year
From Putting People First

How focus on UX helped gov.uk win design of the year

The goal of self-service sites is to help users find answers themselves, forestalling the need to contact a real person. When such a site is done right, it leads...

[Book] Holistic Retail Design
From Putting People First

[Book] Holistic Retail Design

Holistic Retail Design – Reshaping Shopping for the Digital Era By Prof. Philipp Teufel and Prof. Rainer Zimmermann (Peter Behrens School of Arts, University of...

Uday Dandavate: “stupidity wrapped in ignorance” underlies Facebook’s Free Basics program
From Putting People First

Uday Dandavate: “stupidity wrapped in ignorance” underlies Facebook’s Free Basics program

Uday Dandavate, co-founder and CEO of design research company SonicRim, is appalled about Facebook pushing its Free Basics program in India, which he think is driven...

For when things get personal…
From Putting People First

For when things get personal…

The post For when things get personal… appeared first on Putting people first.

[Report] Easier Said Than Done
From Putting People First

[Report] Easier Said Than Done

Easier Said Than Done: Why we struggle with healthy behaviours and what to do about it By Nathalie Spencer RSA, December 2015 Many of us know what we should be[Report]...

[Book] The People’s Platform
From Putting People First

[Book] The People’s Platform

The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age By Astra Taylor Picador, 288 pages April 2015 The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented...

The technophiles unhappy about the tech revolution
From Putting People First

The technophiles unhappy about the tech revolution

Joel Achenbach reports in the Washington Post on how digital dissenters say human needs are getting lost in the digital revolution and start to fight the tech establishment...

Ethno-writing about digital infrastructure
From Putting People First

Ethno-writing about digital infrastructure

Data & Society is a NYC-based research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development. The institute that...

‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics
From Putting People First

‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics

‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics Benjamin G. Voyer, London School of Economics Article (Accepted version) (2015) British‘Nudging...

‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics
From Putting People First

‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics

‘Nudging’ behaviours in healthcare: insights from behavioural economics Benjamin G. Voyer, London School of Economics Article (Accepted version) (2015) British‘Nudging...

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry
From Putting People First

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry

By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their...

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry
From Putting People First

Designing for behavioural change in the healthcare industry

By taking into account psychological drivers, the health-care industry can create products and services that will help individuals improve the way they manage their...

Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist
From Putting People First

Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist

For several years, Shareable has followed, and reported on, Sharing City Seoul, a pioneering project, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With its government...

Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist
From Putting People First

Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist

For several years, Shareable has followed, and reported on, Sharing City Seoul, a pioneering project, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With its government...

Public Service Design guide
From Putting People First

Public Service Design guide

Public Service Design: A guide for the application of service design in public organisations Authors: Annelies Thoelen (Co-Editor), Steven Cleeren (Co-Editor),Public...

Public Service Design guide
From Putting People First

Public Service Design guide

Public Service Design: A guide for the application of service design in public organisations Authors: Annelies Thoelen (Co-Editor), Steven Cleeren (Co-Editor),Public...

Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists
From Putting People First

Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists

On Friday, 27 November 2015, Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the third international symposium ‘Why the world needs anthropologists‘. The theme of this year’s event...

Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists
From Putting People First

Conference: Why the world needs anthropologists

On Friday, 27 November 2015, Ljubljana (Slovenia) hosted the third international symposium ‘Why the world needs anthropologists‘. The theme of this year’s event...

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining
From Putting People First

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining

While patient-centricity is at the top of the agenda of most Life Science organizations, there is an urgent need for commercial teams to evolve their market research...

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining
From Putting People First

Becoming patient-centric: the case for a humanistic approach to patient insight-mining

While patient-centricity is at the top of the agenda of most Life Science organizations, there is an urgent need for commercial teams to evolve their market research...
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