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Debunking the Idea of Digital Natives
From Putting People First

Debunking the Idea of Digital Natives

The Economist questions whether it is really helpful to talk about a new generation of “digital natives” who have grown up with the internet. “Writing in the British...

Experientia
From Putting People First

Experientia

Over the last five years experience design consultancy Experientia has grown from new beginnings to a vibrant company with a large portfolio. To showcase our latest...

Changing environmental behaviour
From Putting People First

Changing environmental behaviour

Brook Lyndhurst, an independent research and strategy consultancy, based in London, UK, works on projects that are concerned with understanding, promoting and delivering...

UK innovation policy should refocus on customers
From Putting People First

UK innovation policy should refocus on customers

UK Government innovation policy should be refocused to reflect the crucial role played by customers in stimulating and funding the development of new hi-tech companies...

New social innovation lab at Darden business school
From Putting People First

New social innovation lab at Darden business school

(From a Darden press release) On March 19 the Darden School of Business [Charlottesville, VA, USA] and the Batten Institute [an academic research center of the...

Internet on mobiles: evolution of usability and user experience
From Putting People First

Internet on mobiles: evolution of usability and user experience

Anne Kaikkonen, a UI product manager at Nokia, recently presented her doctoral dissertation on the usability and user experience of the mobile internet. Internet...

Interaction
From Putting People First

Interaction

Many videos of the Interaction10 conference are now online. Here are the one of the speakers mentioned in the recent review by Experientia partner Jan-Christoph...

New media and its superpowers
From Putting People First

New media and its superpowers

Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist and associate researcher at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, co-led a MacArthur Foundation-funded three...

When American and European ideas of privacy collide
From Putting People First

When American and European ideas of privacy collide

An Italian ruling against Google highlights the clash between Europe

Content strategy
From Putting People First

Content strategy

Content strategy is more or less on the same trajectory as social media was three years ago, argues Kristina Halvorson (of Brain Traffic). “I think it

Streams of content, limited attention
From Putting People First

Streams of content, limited attention

Danah Boyd, a social media researcher at Microsoft Research, wrote a long piece for UX Magazine on “what it means to be ‘in flow’ in an information landscape defined...

Women and mobile
From Putting People First

Women and mobile

Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity is a study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries. Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income...

Why can
From Putting People First

Why can

Why not use the iPhone interface as the basis for a new round of Apple computers? What if Microsoft scrapped the front end of Windows 7 and the troubled Vista OS...

For newspapers to survive, they must put users first
From Putting People First

For newspapers to survive, they must put users first

If publications continue to rely on selling advertising to support their costs, how does that serve the audience’s needs? Fast Company provides three ideas for...

The Netherlands
From Putting People First

The Netherlands

Focusing on improving and innovating services is a smart way to foster economic growth. Jeneanne Rae reports from the Netherlands. “Recognizing the need to steer...

Article series on futures thinking
From Putting People First

Article series on futures thinking

Jamais Cascio, who covers the intersection of emerging technologies and cultural transformation for Fast Company, is in the process of publishing an ‘occasional’...

Diabetes Innovation Fair videos online
From Putting People First

Diabetes Innovation Fair videos online

Videos of the November 23, 2009 Diabetes Innovation Fair at the IIT Institute of Design are now on the web. Graduate students presented design innovation proposals...

Millennials
From Putting People First

Millennials

This report on the values, attitudes, behaviors and demographic characteristics of the Millennial generation was prepared by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan...

Google
From Putting People First

Google

Luca De Biase, the journalist I translated this morning, continues to add interesting commentary: Excerpts from this post (translated into English): “The Italian...

Google Video: Italian law is complicating the world
From Putting People First

Google Video: Italian law is complicating the world

This Italian reflection on the Italian Google sentence, written by journalist Luca De Biase (in charge of the N
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