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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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Do people want location-based social networking?
Social networks want to know your location. But it
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Content Strategy: no longer just the preserve of the web professional
Jeremy Baldwin, company director at Bright Blue Day, a full-service design and marketing agency in Dorset, UK, argues that we should stop talking about content...
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The evolved user experience
Alexander Negash, analytics and user experience manager at the American Cancer Society, discusses on UX Magazine how to adopt social technologies in user research...
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Nine reasons smartphones are dumb remotes
As the Internet and TV converge in living rooms, lots of folks, including the New York Times, have been drooling over the idea of smartphones as next-gen remotes...
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Building a Homesense
The London Tinker people have published a nice informal write-up of where things are with the Homesense project they are working on. Homesense is an epic piece...
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Four year ethnographic study of Global Voices
How would a newsroom look if we could build it from scratch, current technologies in hand? A 4 year ethnograhic study of Global Voices brought Lokman Tsui, an Assistant...
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Computational objects with information shadows
Mike Kuniavsky, writer, designer, researcher and entrepreneur and co-founder of both ThingM, an electronic hardware design, development and manufacturing company...
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IDEA 2010, an information architecture conference
Last month the Information Architecture Institute, a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture, held its yearly...
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Lost the remote? Another reason to use an app
TV viewing habits are changing as more Internet and on-demand content
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Ethnographic study on impact of social tools on sales
An in-depth ethnographic study of the social media habits of Blacksburg, VA, the first internet wired town in the world, demonstrates the power of consumer endorsed...
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Smartphone form factor
In a previous TechRepublic column, Debra Littlejohn Shinder stated that hardware design and features are some of the many criteria to consider when deciding which...
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Exposing the magic of design
Jon Kolko has published on UXMatters a sample chapter of his forthcoming book, Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner
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Storytelling for UX, an interview with Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks
Daniel Szuc spoke with Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks about their new book Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design. “Daniel: Why...
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India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets
Ravi Nessman reports from Mumbai, India. “The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along...
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The future of wired retail
In a 2010 survey of U.S. consumers conducted by Buzzback Market Research, findings showed that 88 percent of shoppers are more likely to choose a company that gives...
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How the shift to mobile is revolutionising online news design
At the recent European Information Architecture Summit in Paris, Oliver Reichenstein, who has done several web design projects for Swiss newspapers, talked about...
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Reflections on iPad usability
The former design director for the New York Times has written a blog post giving his thoughts on magazine apps for the iPad (something he clearly gets asked about...
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Digital-savvy shoppers drive change in retail
Jonathan Birchall reports in the Financial Times on the challenges of creating a single customer experience both online and in stores: “Shoppers equipped with smartphones...
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Meet the 20-cent
CNN has an interview up with Nigel Waller, the CEO of Movirtu Limited and the man behind their Cloud Phone, writes Core77. Waller dropped the surprising statistic...
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