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Book: Designing Media by Bill Moggridge
From Putting People First

Book: Designing Media by Bill Moggridge

Designing Media, the new book by Bill Moggridge, director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and founder of IDEO, is now available in hard copy, as a DVD...

U DriveIT
From Putting People First

U DriveIT

Norden, the Nordic Innovation Center, has published the results of a research project between Denmark, Norway and Iceland, that explored the increasingly strong...

Understanding communities through ethnography
From Putting People First

Understanding communities through ethnography

Digital marketing expert Dhiren Shingadia interviewed ethnographer and technology researcher Tricia Wang to learn how ethnography can provide new insights for companies...

The Absent Peer
From Putting People First

The Absent Peer

Sebastian Greger, social interaction designer, internet sociologist and post-graduate student at the Media Lab of the Aalto University School of Art and Design...

Interview with Motorola UX designer Hwang Sung-gul
From Putting People First

Interview with Motorola UX designer Hwang Sung-gul

The Korean partner newspaper of the International Herald Tribune today published an interview with Hwang Sung-gul, the creative designer of mobile devices at Motorola...

Collaborative design strategies for community technology
From Putting People First

Collaborative design strategies for community technology

Organizations designing for marginalized populations have many design approaches to inform their efforts to enact lasting change. Some are adapted from first-world...

The experience design of a Japanese zoo
From Putting People First

The experience design of a Japanese zoo

A couple of weeks ago the Design Center Busan (in Busan, South Korea) organised its first International Design Congress. The speakers featured not only the writer...

Korea
From Putting People First

Korea

The autumn issue of Koreana, the quarterly devoted to Korean art and culture, contains a special feature on Korea’s smartphone era. The articles come in a range...

Digital U
From Putting People First

Digital U

Digital U (Youtube) is the the first television/web series to examine how the internet and social media is changing the world around us. Digital U is an eight-part...

The public square goes mobile
From Putting People First

The public square goes mobile

Allison Arieff writes in the New York Times Opinionator blog extensively on how citizens harness technology to offer up solutions to problems in their communities...

Car or computer? How transport is becoming more connected
From Putting People First

Car or computer? How transport is becoming more connected

The amount of data that can now be collected about how drivers use their cars is unprecedented, reports the BBC, and the impact of so much information is potentially...

The iPhone experience in Samsung
From Putting People First

The iPhone experience in Samsung

Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of Apple

Experientia
From Putting People First

Experientia

Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken recently became one of Canvas8

Governments benefit from embracing new technologies to engage with citizens
From Putting People First

Governments benefit from embracing new technologies to engage with citizens

Governments around the world must continue to embrace social media and other new technologies because besides empowering citizens new technologies bring in a “myriad...

Evaluating Nordic Living Labs
From Putting People First

Evaluating Nordic Living Labs

Over the past decade, Living Labs have become an established part of local and regional innovation systems, using a variety of methods and tools, and focusing on...

Mobile user experience trends on the horizon
From Putting People First

Mobile user experience trends on the horizon

Marek Pawlowski, the founder of MEX, explores in UX Magazine several future trends he expects to be of significance for UX practitioners as the balance of user...

From Putting People First

David Wigder, Vice President of Business Development at RecycleBank, explores on Marketing Green the rise of the peer-to-peer green economy, and in particular the...

The Morrow Project and futurism at Intel
From Putting People First

The Morrow Project and futurism at Intel

Intel’s Chief Futurist, Brian David Johnson, is a big advocate of using science fiction narratives as a jumping off point for a discussion between management and...

Video message by Experientia
From Putting People First

Video message by Experientia

Experientia president Michele Visciola was invited to send a video message to the World Usability Day 2010 event in Tokyo, Japan. Michele, who is also European...

Invading Cyprus with user-centred design
From Putting People First

Invading Cyprus with user-centred design

A group of young designers are making their mark on Nicosia
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