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Designing perceptual persuasion
From Putting People First

Designing perceptual persuasion

All web designers use perceptual persuasion in their designs, but without knowing they do. Interaction designer Wouter Middendorf delves into the matter: “Persuasive...

The future of television is not television
From Putting People First

The future of television is not television

Television is breaking free of old paradigms and constraints. Consumers have no shortage of places to look for the content they want

Principles of Social Interaction Design: An Essay
From Putting People First

Principles of Social Interaction Design: An Essay

Adrian Chan, social media expert and social interaction theorist at Gravity7, has written a long essay to collect his thoughts on social interaction design. “Imperfect...

User experience design is dead; Long live user experience
From Putting People First

User experience design is dead; Long live user experience

With Apple, Inc. having the largest market capitalization of any company in the world, and an endless stream of CEOs and pundits talking about the importance of...

Four new articles from UX matters
From Putting People First

Four new articles from UX matters

UX matters posted yesterday four new articles: The world of services user experience By Baruch Sachs In a services organization, you are not only the UX expert,...

Why personas are critical for content strategy
From Putting People First

Why personas are critical for content strategy

The most popular content strategy tools borrow from the discipline of information architecture, but there is one invaluable tool that is imperative to the process...

World IA Day 2012 keynote talks
From Putting People First

World IA Day 2012 keynote talks

World IA Day 2012 is about bringing the Information Architecture community together, and the first ever World IA Day, which took place on 11 February, featured...

GE infographics offer hints about future of data-driven management
From Putting People First

GE infographics offer hints about future of data-driven management

A pair of remarkable projects created by Ben Fry (co-developer of Processing) and his company Fathom may seem like simple marketing, but one day soon could enterprise...

Why user experience is critical to customer relationships
From Putting People First

Why user experience is critical to customer relationships

User experience is a priority that should, in some way, find a home within the design of any new-media strategy, writes Brian Solis. “The reality is that the relationship...

What the demise of Flash means for the user experience
From Putting People First

What the demise of Flash means for the user experience

Adobe

From Putting People First

Increasing privacy infringement on the Internet has set off a campaign to uphold the

Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics
From Putting People First

Dan Lockton on behavioural heuristics

Behavioural change researcher Dan Lockton discusses an approach which has emerged out of some of the ethnographic work he has been doing for the Empower project...

User Interface is the next battlefield in consumer electronics
From Putting People First

User Interface is the next battlefield in consumer electronics

User Interface (UI) is the next battlefield in consumer electronics and, as products mature, the race to differentiate based on the UI will accelerate. Rather than...

Interaction 12: Keynote by Anthony Dunne
From Putting People First

Interaction 12: Keynote by Anthony Dunne

Ciara Taylor was also at Interaction 12 in Dublin and reports on the keynote talk by Anthony Dunne for Core77. “Interaction design and designing interactions… are...

Interaction 12: Day Three
From Putting People First

Interaction 12: Day Three

There was magic in the air on the final day of the Interactions 12 conference in Dublin, as a number of speakers drew the connections between magic and design,...

Information overload is not unique to Digital Age
From Putting People First

Information overload is not unique to Digital Age

It is a constant complaint: We’re choking on information. The flood of data on the Web has reached mind boggling proportions, and it shows no signs of stopping....

The human factor in service design
From Putting People First

The human factor in service design

McKinsey’s John DeVine, Shyam Lal, and Michael Zea write that businesses ought to focus on the human side of customer service to make it psychologically savvy,...

Interactions 12: Day Two
From Putting People First

Interactions 12: Day Two

Vicky Teinaki and Louise Taylor continue their coverage of the Interactions conference in Dublin. In this long article, they report on the presentations by Jonas...

Interactions 12: Day One
From Putting People First

Interactions 12: Day One

Dublin

Ethnography of mobile phone use in remote Mexican village
From Putting People First

Ethnography of mobile phone use in remote Mexican village

Tricia Wang of UCSD’s Department of Sociology and Barry Brown of the Mobile Life VINN Excellence Center Stockholm presented the paper “Ethnography of the telephone...
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