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Why people adopt or wait for new technology
From Putting People First

Why people adopt or wait for new technology

Jared Spool explores the key differences between

Five lessons from the best interaction designs of 2011
From Putting People First

Five lessons from the best interaction designs of 2011

Frog’s Robert Fabricant breaks down the themes from the 2011 Interaction Design Awards. “Technologies like cheap sensors and cloud computing are increasingly being...

Video chat reshapes domestic rituals
From Putting People First

Video chat reshapes domestic rituals

Far-flung families are increasingly using Skype, Apple

The Internet gets physical
From Putting People First

The Internet gets physical

NY Times technology reporter Steve Lohr writes on how consumer-based Internet technologies are morphing into new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health...

An evolution toward a programmable universe
From Putting People First

An evolution toward a programmable universe

With a harvest of data from a wired planet, computing has evolved from sensing local information to analyzing it to being able to control it. Larry Smarr, founding...

Towards an ethics of persuasion
From Putting People First

Towards an ethics of persuasion

As design becomes more sophisticated in influencing user behavior, it’s important that we start to think critically about the ethical boundary between persuasion...

Highway to health
From Putting People First

Highway to health

Incorporating wireless technology into its newest cars, Ford prepared to roll out vehicles capable of monitoring everything from pollen counts to glucose levels...

Nokia foresight on the future of mobile design
From Putting People First

Nokia foresight on the future of mobile design

Sondre Ager-Wick, Nokia’s Head of Design Strategy and Foresight, discusses the evolution and future of mobile design. His new trends: - DIY design - Electronically...

The digital other
From Putting People First

The digital other

In an article for DMLCentral Nishant Shah, founder and director of research for the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society, wants to explore new ways of...

For the love of experience: Changing the experience economy discourse
From Putting People First

For the love of experience: Changing the experience economy discourse

In September 2011, researcher Anna Snel defended her Ph.D thesis, entitled “For the love of experience: Changing the experience economy discourse“, at the University...

Yes, experience can be designed
From Putting People First

Yes, experience can be designed

Experience designers investigate the motivations behind users’ behaviors to develop skill in predicting and guiding those behaviors. A short article by designer...

Women to dominate tech
From Putting People First

Women to dominate tech

Chip maker and technology group Intel says that women are emerging as the dominant users of technology and if it continues to enhance its ease of use, the fairer...

Philosophy of interaction
From Putting People First

Philosophy of interaction

Chapter eleven of the interaction-design.org resource is now available in preview. It was written by Dag Svanaes, Professor at the Department of Computer and Information...

Why service design is the next big thing in cultural innovation
From Putting People First

Why service design is the next big thing in cultural innovation

Rohan Gunatillake, the lead producer of festivalslab (the Edinburgh Festival Innovations Lab) gives four reasons why new thinking and tools can produce better experiences...

Homesense final report
From Putting People First

Homesense final report

Homesense was a research project that looked at how we might design smart homes from the bottom up, in an environment of open innovation. Using open source tools...

Homesense final report
From Putting People First

Homesense final report

Homesense was a research project that looked at how we might design smart homes from the bottom up, in an environment of open innovation. Using open source tools...

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya
From Putting People First

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya

Since September 2011, Niti Bhan, an emerging markets design strategist, has been wholly immersed in the cyber cafe industry in Sub Saharan Africa, specifically...

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya
From Putting People First

Reporting on the Village Telco project in Kenya

Since September 2011, Niti Bhan, an emerging markets design strategist, has been wholly immersed in the cyber cafe industry in Sub Saharan Africa, specifically...

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth
From Putting People First

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth

Information Marketplaces: The new economics of cities Author: Arup, The Climate Group, Accenture and Horizon, University of Nottingham Publication date: 28 November...

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth
From Putting People First

Arup: The technology-enabled city is an untapped source of sustainable growth

Information Marketplaces: The new economics of cities Author: Arup, The Climate Group, Accenture and Horizon, University of Nottingham Publication date: 28 November...
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