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Live at Interaction
From Putting People First

Live at Interaction

Niklas Wolkert & Brad Nunnally report on Johnnyy Holland on the first day of the Interaction10 conference in Savannah, Georgia. “If one thing had to describe the...

5 ways techno-gadgetry is bringing out the worst in humanity
From Putting People First

5 ways techno-gadgetry is bringing out the worst in humanity

Scott Hill of Alternet looks at how technology facilitates “the human sentient understanding of how to take cruel advantage of human weakness”. “Indeed, humans...

Digital Nation, in-depth documentary, online in full
From Putting People First

Digital Nation, in-depth documentary, online in full

In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world. Continuing...

The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices
From Putting People First

The Internet of things: Networked objects and smart devices

Constantine Valhouli, principal of the Massachusetts based Hammersmith Group, which consults to developers on the marketing and branding of luxury properties, and...

Europeans
From Putting People First

Europeans

On the 4th annual Data Protection day (28th January 2010) the European Commission announced the intention to reform the 1995 European Union (EU) Data Protection...

Stowe Boyd: outdated UX metaphors are holding us back
From Putting People First

Stowe Boyd: outdated UX metaphors are holding us back

Stowe Boyd arguest that the metaphors of computing user experience are holding us back from new ways of structuring our interaction through computers. “the thing...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

User experience is one of the most important success factors of a mobile application, according to Nokia. Therefore the company created a web section that describes...

Ethnographic research could make Google more relevant in China
From Putting People First

Ethnographic research could make Google more relevant in China

Ethnographer Tricia Wang wrote an excellent and long comment on why Google is having troubles in China: While unfortunate that Google.CN may be shutting down, my...

Front book vs back book pricing: a service design challenge
From Putting People First

Front book vs back book pricing: a service design challenge

Nick Marsh of EMC Conchango reflects on the conundrum of ‘front book’ vs ‘back book’ pricing, and the implications for service design. “This is a great example...

Upcoming service design conference in Sweden
From Putting People First

Upcoming service design conference in Sweden

One of the projects funded by the Danish programme for user-driven innovation (English summary) is DESINOVA (see also this earlier post). DESINOVA

Urban sensing via mobile phones, an ARUP project
From Putting People First

Urban sensing via mobile phones, an ARUP project

Arup Australasia has published a three-part technical overview on its research blog of its ‘urban sensing via mobile phones’ project. The research project, in collaboration...

FT on cultural differences in Chinese internet use
From Putting People First

FT on cultural differences in Chinese internet use

Western companies are struggling to bridge the growing gap created by the evolution of a cyberspace with Chinese characteristics. Kathrin Hille explains some of...

Report: Booting up mobile health
From Putting People First

Report: Booting up mobile health

Mobile health is emerging at the intersection of dynamic changes in mobility patterns, health care delivery, and new mobile technologies and networks. New technologies...

Articles on Danish design research
From Putting People First

Articles on Danish design research

The Danish Centre for Design Research (DCDR) is an umbrella organisation under the Danish Ministry of Culture for the design research that takes place at the Aarhus...

Real-time video in 2020
From Putting People First

Real-time video in 2020

Skype commissioned the Institute for the Future to research and start a conversation about the future of real-time video communication and what will it feel like...

If your kids are awake, they
From Putting People First

If your kids are awake, they

The average young American now spends practically every waking minute

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

In recognition of the importance that good design and user experience plays in creating successful products and services, Forum Nokia has renewed and extended it...

From Putting People First

Interesting Google Blog article on how user research dramatically improved driving directions on Google Maps India. The research was based on the fact that street...

Book: Pervasive Information Architecture
From Putting People First

Book: Pervasive Information Architecture

Pervasive Information Architecture – Designing information space in ubiquitous ecologies is a book being written by Andrea Resmini and Luca Rosati for Morgan Kaufmann...

Information and communication technologies vital for social inclusion
From Putting People First

Information and communication technologies vital for social inclusion

The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT...
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