Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From Putting People First
Devices will allow for more heads-up mobility
Marko Ahtisaari, senior vp and head of design strategy at Nokia, was interviewed on the [Nokia] Ideas Project site. In the [short] interview, Ahtisaari states that...
From Putting People First
Beware the seductions of sociable machines
Our lives have become bold technological experiments, but we need to think hard before letting the computers and robots take over, says Sherry Turkle, MIT professor...
From Putting People First
Experientia part of EPIC 2011
The Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference (EPIC) has become the premier international forum for bringing together academics, computer scientists, designers...
From Putting People First
UX design in the financial services industry
Harald Felgner alerts us to a presentation by Amir Dotan of LAB49 where he shares his experiences working as a user experience architect in the financial services...
From Putting People First
Distance Lab closed down
The BBC reports that the Distance Lab closed down. Distance Lab was a Scottish creative research initiative for digital media technology and design innovation,...
From Putting People First
Design research and innovation: an interview with Don Norman
Jeroen Van Geel of Johnny Holland interviewed Donald Norman about innovation, design research, and emotional design. Earlier this year you wrote that design research...
From Putting People First
Arduino The Documentary. How open source hardware became cheap and fun
When I was working at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, I met Massimo Banzi who embarked on an open source hardware initiative which eventually became the very...
From Putting People First
Cyberspace when you
The Internet promises a kind of immortality. What if your last tweet is the one that defines you for all time? Rob Walker reflects in a long article for the New...
From Putting People First
Videos of UX Week 2010
At the end of August Adaptive Path held its UX Week 2010 in San Francisco and uploaded videos of all the presentations a little after. I only noticed them now....
From Putting People First
Automakers grapple with New-Age dilemma: software or hardware?
A somewhat older but no less relevant article by Bill Visnic on how automakers are diverging around the question of how to approach the onboard “infotainment” revolution...
From Putting People First
Om Malik: Google has a user experience problem
Om Malik, founder of GigaOM Network, argues in a much commented post that Google has a user experience problem: “As it looks at its future, Google needs to realize...
From Putting People First
A rich trove of articles in UX Magazine
A rich trove of articles in UX Magazine: The importance of designing an experience culture By Cynthia Thomas / December 20th 2010 The outward focus on developing...
From Putting People First
Vodafone foresight on the world in 2020
Vodafone has launched its new futureagenda website that presents the results of a 12 month insight and foresight programme on the world in 2020. The project, which...
From Putting People First
Book: User Experience Management
User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams By Arnie Lund Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (Elsevier) May 2011 ISBN: 978-0-12-385496-4...
From Putting People First
EU action plan to drive take up of online public services
The European Commission unveiled an ambitious agenda to bring public services online across Europe so that it could “serve an economy which relies on the networks...
From Putting People First
Interview with Bill Verplank
Steve Baty has published a short interview with Bill Verplank on Johnny Holland. Bill Verplank is – together with Bill Moggridge – at the origin of the term “interaction...
From Putting People First
Designing interactive products for children
Yeevon Ooi of Webcredible writes in a long article that designing interactive products for children shouldn’t be any different from any user-centred design process...
From Putting People First