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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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Interviewing Users book – Special offers for Putting People First readers
A few weeks ago, I announced Interviewing Users, the new book by Steve Portigal published by Rosenfeld Media. It is now available for purchase, both in print and...
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Tweeting Minarets: joining quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
In the last post of the EthnographyMatters Ethnomining edition (edited by Nicolas Nova), David Ayman Shamma @ayman gives a personal perspective on mixed methods...
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It’s time to reinvent the Personal Computer
Although Windows and Macintosh are both showing their age, Michael Mace of Cera Technology thinks there is enormous opportunity for a renaissance in personal computing...
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Design for Public Good, a new report for the European Commission
The UK Design Council and three other members of the SEE Platform (Sharing Experience Europe) – the Danish Design Centre, Design Wales and Aalto University, Finland...
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Designing for the multi-user: missed by Apple, Google and others
The iPad is a multi-user device according to industry reports, writes Frank Spillers. But you wouldn’t know it from picking up even the latest generation iPad,...
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Write-up on Michele Visciola’s talk at iHub, Kenya
Michele Visciola, President and Founding Partner of Experientia, gave a talk at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya, last week (see also this earlier post). The aim of the talk...
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Talking Design With Intel’s Todd Harple
We cordially invite you to Experientia’s inaugural “Talking Design” evening. On Wednesday May 8th, at 18.00, we are excited to have Intel’s Todd Harple speaking...
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London exhibition explores alternative Britain governed by four extreme lifestyle tribes
Belching cars made of skin and bones, nuclear-powered trains in the shape of mountains and arrow-like formations of joined recumbent bicycles are just some of the...
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UK ‘Nudge Unit’ to be privatised
The UK’s Behavioural Insights Team – known as the “nudge unit” – will join with a commercial partner and become the first policy unit to be spun out of Whitehall...
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Developing digital books with user-centred design
Digital books are software. The more interactive the experience, the more complex that software is to develop – and the greater the risk of creating a digital product...
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Exploring Problem-framing through Behavioural Heuristics
Article published in the April 2013 issue of the International Journal of Design By Dan Lockton, David J. Harrison, Rebecca Cain, Neville A. Stanton, & Paul Jennings...
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Unpaid internships are harming the design industry
Mark Busse calls on the design industry to set a higher standard (and as a company which has always paid its interns, we endorse this call): ” Employers, especially...
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Documentary examines the end of print books
People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only...
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Your body does not want to be an interface
Have you heard that Google Glass will let you snap photos by winking? John Pavlus of the MIT Technology Review writes why that’s still going to feel weird. “The...
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Jan-Christoph Zoels on interfaces at UNStudio during Milan Design Week [video]
Jan-Christoph Zoels, an Experientia founding partner, was one of the panelists at the UNStudio Platform Dialogues during the Milan Design Week and a video of his...
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Steampunking interaction design and other Interaction Magazine articles
Interactions Magazine is no longer the influential voice in the interaction design community that it used to be a few years ago. Lots of the reason why has to do...
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Video online of Milan debate: “The Long View of Interaction Design”
The people behind the upcoming IxDA Interaction14 conference organized on 6 April a panel discussion in Milan on the “Long View of Interaction Design”. 5 panelists...
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Plant Wars player patterns: visualization as scaffolding for ethnographic insight
The latest contribution to Ethnomining, the April 2013 Ethnographymatters edition on combining qualitative and quantitative data, edited by Nicolas Nova, is by...
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How will Big Data change design research?
Dave McColgin of Artefact writes about the relationship of design research to the ultimate outcome-focused research tool: Big Data. “Big Data [...] provides us...
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