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Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy
From Putting People First

Glen Cove conference on strategic design and public policy

Ever keen to expand the boundaries of their practices, design professionals have been moving in the direction of public policy for some years, writes Lucy Kimbell...

Beyond findability
From Putting People First

Beyond findability

The Spring 2010 issue of the Journal of Information Architecture is now available. In one of the articles “Beyond Findability“, Luigi Spagnolo, Davide Bolchini,...

A Transumer Manifesto
From Putting People First

A Transumer Manifesto

From cars to designer clothes to children

Kuniavsky designing read-write web-created things
From Putting People First

Kuniavsky designing read-write web-created things

This fast approaching era of desktop manufacturing via advanced MakerBots and other 3D printers is in part why ThingM co-founder Mike Kuniavsky runs an annual conference...

The cities we need
From Putting People First

The cities we need

The Grattan Institute, an Australian independent public policy think-tank, has published a new report, entitled “The Cities We Need“, that aims to set an agenda...

Why social experience is the future of online content
From Putting People First

Why social experience is the future of online content

“For all of the attention on social networking, there are few social media experiences that match the fun of hanging out together with friends in person,” writes...

Design research at LIFT conference
From Putting People First

Design research at LIFT conference

At the beginning of May, frog design partnered with the Lift conference in Geneva to conduct design research on the conference itself to understand what was working...

The product of a healthy relationship
From Putting People First

The product of a healthy relationship

The relationship between researchers and product designers can be a rocky one. Paul Golden looks at how market research can make sure it promotes creative thinking...

Interactions magazine on subtlety and change
From Putting People First

Interactions magazine on subtlety and change

The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on subtlety and change, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko: “There are some strange changes under way in...

Goodbye to UXnet
From Putting People First

Goodbye to UXnet

For nearly three years, selected Putting People First posts — 837 to be precise — have also been published on the website of UXnet. Now that UXnet is being disbanded...

Essays on service design in higher education
From Putting People First

Essays on service design in higher education

COTEN, the collaborative online research project exploring service design for higher education in 2010, features some interesting lecture essays: Small change and...

Content strategy and the future of the online experience
From Putting People First

Content strategy and the future of the online experience

Two new articles in UX Magazine: Fusing content strategy with design by David Gillis Context maps and content flow diagrams are just two possible ways to integrate...

The huge challenge of Nokia
From Putting People First

The huge challenge of Nokia


Why we desire, display and design
From Putting People First

Why we desire, display and design


IKEA
From Putting People First

IKEA


Intel transforming lives of senior citizens in 2050
From Putting People First

Intel transforming lives of senior citizens in 2050

This month Chip Chick, the site that focuses on technology for women, was invited by Intel to its annual Upgrade Your Life Event where the company presented what...

The reality of social media
From Putting People First

The reality of social media

In this post Adrian Chan “teases apart the objective and subjective dimensions of social media, to examine what

Don Norman: the Want interview
From Putting People First

Don Norman: the Want interview

“The ability to explain complex academic theories in palatable layman

On ethnography and balance scorecards
From Putting People First

On ethnography and balance scorecards

Twho new articles have been published on the UX Matters site: Ethnography in UX by Nathanael Boehm, user experience and social interaction designer for the Australian...

UXnet disbanded
From Putting People First

UXnet disbanded

Louis Rosenfeld, president of the Board of Directors of UXnet, announced last night that the user experience network is being disbanded: “On behalf of UXnet
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