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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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Good mobile experiences unfold and progressively reveal their nature
Successful PC and mobile experiences are built on fundamentally different conceptual models and leverage different psychological functions of the user, argues Rachel...
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Art that interacts if you interface
The New York Times reviews Paola Antonelli’s “Talk to Me” show at the Museum of Modern Art. “At its best
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Digital fluency: empowering all students
Liz Losh writes on DMLCentral on an inclusive and interdisciplinary approach to
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Are we becoming too analytical?
Or, why did Google PowerMeter fail? In his latest post, James Landay questions whether over-analysis of data gets in the way of designing a product that truly understands...
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Design for Social Innovation: an interview with Ezio Manzini
Ezio Manzini is an Italian design strategist, one of the world
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The UX of learning
Learning is a complex process with distinct stages, each with corresponding tasks and emotions. Understanding how users learn can help us design experiences that...
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The future of learning
New research findings from a global study of education systems suggest that the promise of a hi-tech, high-skills, high-wage future for kids is a fantasy. Does...
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Jakob Nielsen report on intranet portals
Jakob Nielsen has published a new report with 19 new case studies of enterprise portals. It finds slow growth in new features. The focus is instead on robust integration...
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Online security for regular people is a disaster
Online security for regular people like you and me is a disaster. It’s a killer app waiting to be designed. When you have a smartphone with some apps and a computer...
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Ten Ways to Redesign Design Competitions
John Thackara has been a juror on a series of sustainability and design competitions recently. And he has become a bit frustrated. Most of them, he says, miss their...
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UI Design: an all-American product that
Rob Tannen argues that user interface design is the most original and influential design coming out of the United States today. “It is the emphasis on user-centered...
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Detroit copies Torino
(English translation of article published yesterday in La Stampa newspaper – author Andrea Rossi): Michigan delegation between the cabbages and the red peppers...
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Report published on Behaviour Change
The main conclusion of the Behaviour Change report, published today by the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee, is that ‘nudging’ on its own...
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Beyond the cubicle
Allison Arieff talks in her New York Times Opinionator blog about the design of work. Paraphrasing Nathan Shedroff, she states that furniture is not the problem...
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Design and behaviourism: a brief review
Dan Lockton is publishing extracts from his Brunel University Ph.D thesis
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CHI Sparks conference
On June 23, CHI Netherlands organised Chi Sparks, its bi-annual conference, and the keynote videos are now available. The theme of this year
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Talk to Me
In her New York Times review of Talk to Me (online journal), the latest exhibition by Paola Antonelli at the MoMA, Alice Rawsthorn describes what could be considered...
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European museums and libraries in/of the age of migration
MeLa – European Museums and Libraries in/of the Age of Migrations – is a brand new four-year research project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh...
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