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User experience in eGovernment
From Putting People First

User experience in eGovernment

Stepan Doubrava and Jakub Franc of ExperienceU (Czech Republic), argues on the Global User Research blog for the proper use of user-centred design principles in...

Challenging the limits of open society
From Putting People First

Challenging the limits of open society

Anand Giridharadas is one of my favourite writers at the New York Times and this time his reflection on the merits of open societies is particularly thought provoking...

IDEO on mobile and human-centered design
From Putting People First

IDEO on mobile and human-centered design

The Mobile Behavior blog interviewed Robert Suarez, a senior portfolio lead in the Consumer Experience design (CXd) group at IDEO. With a background in User experience...

The BBC
From Putting People First

The BBC

The BBC UX&D team has published a global experience language for the BBC’s digital service: The GVL 3.0 guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating...

A new age of user-repaired devices
From Putting People First

A new age of user-repaired devices

iFixit launched today today a

Better tech docs through social networking
From Putting People First

Better tech docs through social networking

The social networking phenomenon has ushered in a shift in mindset that, in turn, has driven people to become actively engaged in generating their own content and...

April 2010 issue of Boxes and Arrows
From Putting People First

April 2010 issue of Boxes and Arrows

The April issue of Boxes and Arrows is recommended reading: Designing for social interaction – strong, weak and temporary ties by Paul Adams, senior UX researcher...

The Screen and the Drum
From Putting People First

The Screen and the Drum

The latest issue of Design and Culture contains an article by Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson and Alan Metcalfe on

Transition for display industry
From Putting People First

Transition for display industry

Interesting, this point of view from the Samsung Economic Research Institute: “As demand for CRT display devices winds down and the penetration rates of TVs and...

How do older people use e-mail?
From Putting People First

How do older people use e-mail?

Researchers at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Spain have studied how older people interact and use email in their daily life. The study, conducted by Sergio...

Emerging-market consumers are hard to reach
From Putting People First

Emerging-market consumers are hard to reach

The Economist explores the topic of consumer research in emerging markets: “Emerging markets are far more varied and volatile than mature ones. There is little...

Ubiquitous service design
From Putting People First

Ubiquitous service design

Peter Morville (pictured) and Jeffery Callender, who recently released the book

Innovating for all
From Putting People First

Innovating for all

The book “Innovating with people

Tales of Things
From Putting People First

Tales of Things

Tales of Things is a new tool that allows people to attach memories to their objects in the form of video, text or audio, thus “exploring the implications of The...

Psychologist Kahneman on experience and memory
From Putting People First

Psychologist Kahneman on experience and memory

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals in a February 2010 lecture at TED how...

Putting People First content partner of Appliance Design
From Putting People First

Putting People First content partner of Appliance Design

Putting People First has become a content partner of Appliance Design, the site of the US-based magazine of the same name that caters to designers and engineers...

Mobile app developers tackle Africa
From Putting People First

Mobile app developers tackle Africa

Mobile app developers are sprouting in Africa to help tackle that continent’s problems. Many create applications that can be used with phone text messages. The...

Interactions Magazine
From Putting People First

Interactions Magazine

The latest issue of Interactions Magazine is about a new intellectualism of design, write co-editors Richard Anderson and Jon Kolko: one that embraces discourse...

Debunking the myths of online usability testing
From Putting People First

Debunking the myths of online usability testing

Bill Albert, director of the Design and Usability Center at Bentley University, highlights five common myths related to online (unmoderated) usability testing,...

Durability
From Putting People First

Durability

In a three-part article series, Dina Mehta, founder and managing director of Mosoci India, argues that durability is losing its power as a consumer driver in some...
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