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Communication and human development: the freedom connection?
From Putting People First

Communication and human development: the freedom connection?

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O2 launches
From Putting People First

O2 launches

O2 is launching a new mobile phone network which it has dubbed as the first

From Putting People First

Tomorrow I will be speaking at an informal, but high energy Paris conference, called (somewhat predictably) Paris 2.0. The conference takes a total of four days...

Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface
From Putting People First

Enhancing user interaction with first person user interface

Luke Wroblewski, an internationally recognized Web thought leader and Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., provides a comprehensive overview...

Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman
From Putting People First

Interfaces Magazine interviews Donald Norman

The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), contains...

Two new user experience communities
From Putting People First

Two new user experience communities

Louis Rosenfeld alerted me to two new Ning-based community sites that Rosenfeld Media authors recently started: Design for Care compiles methods, results, case...

Using design thinking at Coca-Cola
From Putting People First

Using design thinking at Coca-Cola

Fast Company profiles David Butler, the man who is “responsible for how they think and what they do with design at The Coca-Cola Company.” “Butler oversees a team...

The dirty little secret about the
From Putting People First

The dirty little secret about the

Sarah Perez criticises on ReadWriteWeb the common view on crowdsourcing: “Recent research by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) professor Vassilis Kostakos pokes...

Mobiles offer lifelines in Africa
From Putting People First

Mobiles offer lifelines in Africa

Ken Banks, creator of FrontlineSMS, wrote a guest piece for BBC News. His main claim: “If you want to see how east Africa may respond to the arrival of high-speed...

Worldchanging interview: Vinay Venkatraman on interaction design
From Putting People First

Worldchanging interview: Vinay Venkatraman on interaction design

Vinay Venkatraman, an interaction designer, is one of a rapidly expanding group of scholars and professionals around the world working to define the way our stuff...

The use of mobile phones in education in developing countries
From Putting People First

The use of mobile phones in education in developing countries

The World Bank is embarking on a new study investigating issues related to the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries. “The study is intended...

Peer pressure and other pitches
From Putting People First

Peer pressure and other pitches

Michael Sanserino reports in the Wall Street Journal on the latest applications of insights in behavioural economics: “More businesses are using behavioral economics...

New EU discussion paper and consultation: Fostering user-driven innovation through clusters
From Putting People First

New EU discussion paper and consultation: Fostering user-driven innovation through clusters

“Involving users in the innovation process seems to be increasingly recognised as an important challenge not only for enterprises, but also for innovation support...

Success stories in design management
From Putting People First

Success stories in design management

An article published by the European Commission’s Enterprise & Industry department: “Design management is a key driver of innovation and competitiveness and the...

Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report
From Putting People First

Grameen Foundation: mHealth ethnography report

One of the projects of AppLab, the application laboratory of the Grameen Foundation, is focused on mobile technology for community health (MoTeCH) in Ghana: “Grameen...

Mayo Clinic
From Putting People First

Mayo Clinic

This week the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation hosted Transform, a collaborative symposium on innovations in health care experience and delivery. The symposium...

Yahoo!
From Putting People First

Yahoo!

Archana Rai of LiveMint.com, the online edition of Mint, an Indian partner publication of the Wall Street Journal, has interviewed Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo!...

This happened
From Putting People First

This happened

This happened is a series of London-based events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. “Having ideas is easier than making them happen. We delve into...

Wayfinding through technology
From Putting People First

Wayfinding through technology

Cennydd Bowles, a user experience designer for Clearleft, discusses how people form mental models of urban environments, and how technology can augment and even...

Case study: NPR.org
From Putting People First

Case study: NPR.org

On July 27, 2009, National Public Radio (NPR) relaunched the website www.npr.org through the efforts of its in-house design team and interactive agency Schematic...
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