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CNN
From Putting People First

CNN

Check out Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels’s superb appearance on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour show yesterday… vividly describing how as an opposition member...

The human factor
From Putting People First

The human factor

NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published a 45-page discussion paper on how transforming healthcare to involve the...

Designing mobile money services for emerging markets
From Putting People First

Designing mobile money services for emerging markets

Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase has posted an in-depth presentation and paper on designing mobile money services for emerging markets: “Hang around a telecoms...

The internet is killing storytelling
From Putting People First

The internet is killing storytelling

Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. Yet, argues Ben Macintyre, writer at large for The Times (UK), they are disappearing in an online blizzard...

Banking the unbanked Africans
From Putting People First

Banking the unbanked Africans

The November 2009 edition of Mobile Money Africa, “Africa’s leading online resource for mobile financial inclusion”, is entitled “Banking the unbanked Africans”...

Reinventing British manners the Post-It way
From Putting People First

Reinventing British manners the Post-It way

Wired UK asked Bill Moggridge and his IDEO team to tackle the urban rage problem that is rendering the UK cityscapes ever more aggressive. “Design thinking defines...

Social isolation and new technology
From Putting People First

Social isolation and new technology

The Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People

Strength in science collaboration
From Putting People First

Strength in science collaboration

Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC News reports on how Google Wave is proving its worth in the scientific community, as one of the new collaboration tools which scientists...

Answering the call to service design
From Putting People First

Answering the call to service design

Phi-Hong D. Ha, an interaction design and strategy consultant, discusses discusses the viability of the new field of service design with Steven Heller of AIGA Voice...

The new fast ways of keeping in touch are driving us further apart
From Putting People First

The new fast ways of keeping in touch are driving us further apart

Email, texting and Facebook let us hide behind our computer screens instead of talking to each other. Elizabeth Day asks in The Observer if we have the tyranny...

Nokia Life Tools tailored to the needs of Indonesians
From Putting People First

Nokia Life Tools tailored to the needs of Indonesians

Nokia Life Tools was designed to help improve the livelihood and lives of farmers, students and many people in more remote and rural areas in emerging market countries...

The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services
From Putting People First

The Fuzzy Boundary: Four products that are also services

Mike Kuniavsky of ThingM was invited to speak at Kimiko Ryokai’s Theory and Practice of Tangible User Interfaces class at UC Berkeley yesterday, where he discussed...

Three DMI articles worth reading
From Putting People First

Three DMI articles worth reading

Via the DMI November 2009 Newsletter, I came across a number of articles that are worthwhile exploring: What the Hell Have We Done to Design? (Really Thinking about...

Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario
From Putting People First

Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario

Mobile phones for development and profit: a win-win scenario Rohit Singh Overseas Development Institute, 2009 The number of mobile subscribers globally is estimated...

The future of interface design
From Putting People First

The future of interface design

David Leggett provides on his UX Booth blog an overview of what the future of interface design has to offer. He covers various upcoming interface technologies such...

Understanding users of social networks
From Putting People First

Understanding users of social networks

Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about...

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid
From Putting People First

Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at Visualizar, Madrid

On Friday 13 (!) November, Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be one of the speakers at Visualizar’09, an international seminar on public data visualisation...

The Times
From Putting People First

The Times

The New York Times interactive group creates an online encyclopedia of all their stunning inventions, reports Cliff Kuang on Fast Company. “The Times interactive...

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world
From Putting People First

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

MIT News reports on how MIT students are exploring innovative cellphone uses in the developing world. “Several startup business ventures spawned by MIT students...

Augmented Reality is overblown
From Putting People First

Augmented Reality is overblown

Chris Dannen writes in Fast Company that Augmented Reality is overblown, and doesn’t expect apps like Layar to drastically change the way we live our everyday lives...
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