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The shift from human-centered to resource-centered design
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The shift from human-centered to resource-centered design

Eric Wilmot writes on Greener Design on how to design for a post-consumption society. And an excellent article it is. “The current interpretation of human-centered...

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When companies develop innovative products that don

Donald Norman on co-creation as a
From Putting People First

Donald Norman on co-creation as a

Donald Norman recently gave a keynote address at the “21st Century Transmedia Innovation Symposium” in Seoul, Korea. “Normal dictionaries do not have the word ‘transmedia...

Panoremo, a tool to assess the emotional experience of environments
From Putting People First

Panoremo, a tool to assess the emotional experience of environments

As part of his Design for Interaction MSc. at the TU Delft, David G

Touchpoint Issue 2
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Touchpoint Issue 2

The second issue of Touchpoint, the sdn’s Service Design Journal, is out. Entitled “Health and Service Design”, this brand-new issue features articles of Service...

The user experience of smart phones
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The user experience of smart phones

Several articles on the smart phone user experience: Getting emotional about mobile phones A nationwide study of over 3000 people has found that there is a direct...

Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television
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Herkko Hietanen: The social future of television

Herkko Hietanen of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology tells his audience at the Berkman Center that

Deconstructing mobiles for development
From Putting People First

Deconstructing mobiles for development

Katrin Verclas of MobileActive is launching a new series on “deconstructing mobiles for development”. Mobile tech as a tool for social development is making the...

Exploring little worlds with Nokia
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Exploring little worlds with Nokia

The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design is on a roll. After an intensive workshop with Intel (featured in Worldchanging), now they embarked on an exploration...

Design and gender: going beyond shrink it and pink it
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Design and gender: going beyond shrink it and pink it

Femme Den is a small internal cadre of designers of Smart Design — the company that was responsible for the OXO Good Grips kitchen tools and the Flip Mini Digital...

The city is a battlesuit for surviving the future
From Putting People First

The city is a battlesuit for surviving the future

Matt Jones, design director at Berg in London, has published a piece in Future Metro which Bruce Sterling “would like to call ‘the greatest design-fiction writing...

Intel describes TV of the future
From Putting People First

Intel describes TV of the future

The world’s biggest chip maker predicts that by 2015 there will be 12 billion devices capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content. The audience...

Do you want that on your permanent record?
From Putting People First

Do you want that on your permanent record?

In his Wall Street Journal De Gustibus column, Eric Felten describes Total Recall, a Microsoft project that will archive every detail of our daily lives. “A certain...

Changing Behaviour
From Putting People First

Changing Behaviour

Changing Behaviour is a project that aims to support change in energy use and energy services. They do so by applying social research on technological change to...

Users
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Users

The Nordic Innovation Centre just published a report on the role of user-driven innovation in the growing Nordic sports equipment industry. Not only on how users...

Yahoo looks to improve search experience
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Yahoo looks to improve search experience

The Mercury News reports on how Yahoo believes it can build its search audience by focusing on the user “experience,” rather than viewing search as a raw data query...

Max Mara launches new website, designed by Experientia
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Max Mara launches new website, designed by Experientia

Unfortunately we cannot talk about most of the work we do at Experientia unless the final product gets launched. But there are these nice moments when we can. Although...

Networked objects session at Lift Asia 2009 conference
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Networked objects session at Lift Asia 2009 conference

Nicolas Nova reports on the

Augmented reality gets off to a wobbly start
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Augmented reality gets off to a wobbly start

The New Scientist reviews the current state of Augmented Reality and is a bit concerned: “While some who back the technology think its time has now come, after...

Information overload
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Information overload

Too many emails, texts and tweets can lead to rising anxiety, lower intelligence
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