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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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Smartphones could mean end of web
The proliferation of powerful mobile phones could see control of the internet pass into the hands of corporations, positions John Naughton in The Observer today...
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Exploring the shift In search behaviors with Microsoft
Jacquelyn Krones, a Senior Product Manager from Microsoft, is in charge of an ongoing ethnographic research project on understanding search behavior.
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User experience design principles
During the conference “An Event Apart” (AEA) in Boston, UX designer Whitney Hess gave a talk entitled “Create design principles and use them to establish a philosophy...
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Interaction designers convene in Florence
Greg Williams reports in Wired UK on the recent Frontiers of Interaction conference in Florence, Italy. “Few people need an excuse to spend time in Florence, so...
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The difference (and relationship) between usability and user experience
In a blog post, Justin Mifsud discuss the terms usability and user experience, highlighting their differences and more importantly the relationship that exists...
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How technology makes us better social beings
Sociologist Keith Hampton (University of Pennsylvania) believes technology and social networking affect our lives in some very positive ways
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Study finds that memory works differently in the age of Google
The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy...
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Technology and moral panic
Why is it that some technologies cause moral panic and others don
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UX and the design of news at BBC World Service
Tammy Gur, Head of Design, BBC World Service Future Media, explains the work of the BBC’s user experience and design team which designs and develops news sites...
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A wearable wristband to track health, fight obesity
Jawbone announces Up, a wearable wristband to track health, fight obesity. A combination of a sensor-infused wristband and a smartphone app will provide nudges...
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Why UX practitioners should join the Government 2.0 movement
One of the most important relationships people have is with government. Cyd Harrell explores what this means for the user experience community. “One of the most...
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New handset, new life
The Mobile Work Life Project is a Ryerson university-based research project funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. Its aim is to...
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Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future
Jim Whitehurst, chief executive and president of Red Hat Inc., the only publicly traded open-source software company, sees user collaboration as the wave of the...
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Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities
Design Flanders ["Design Vlaanderen"] and the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (both in Belgium) have just published a bilingual Dutch-English booklet...
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Inside Google
Smashing Magazine author Dan Redding interviewed Marcin Wichary, Senior User Experience Designer at Google. “Marcin Wichary
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Social Circles
Usability consultant Frank Spillers writes that he the recent release of Google’s social circles (part of the new ‘Google +’ social network) constitutes a social...
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Smart Design
Smart Design’s think tank presents an ongoing discussion of how gender should be included in good design – all published in a new series on Fast Company. The Femme...
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Let
Jane Wakefield, BBC technology reporter, explores how the social experience of real shopping can help improve web retail, and how the online social shopping experience...
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Report: Behaviour Change and Energy Use
The Behavioural Insight Team of David Cameron’s Cabinet Office – widely known as the ‘nudge unit‘, has published the repor, Behaviour Change and Energy Use, setting...
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