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Web Squared: when Web 2.0 meets Internet of Things
From Putting People First

Web Squared: when Web 2.0 meets Internet of Things

Richard MacManus reports on ReadWriteWeb that Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On, which focuses on...

The information architecture of social experience design
From Putting People First

The information architecture of social experience design

Christian Crumlish, curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and author of The Power of Many, describes the patterns that are relevant when adding a social...

A user perspective on mobile banking in Tanzania
From Putting People First

A user perspective on mobile banking in Tanzania

Gunnar Camner and Emil Sj

From chasm to convergence
From Putting People First

From chasm to convergence

Johnathan Bonnell and Jason Theodor explain in a two part series on Experience Matters how technology is increasingly closing the gap between manufacturers and...

Book: The myth of digital democracy
From Putting People First

Book: The myth of digital democracy

The Myth of Digital Democracy by Matthew Hindman Princeton University Press, 2008 Paperback, 198 pages Abstract: Is the Internet democratizing American politics...

Learning from games: a language for designing emotion
From Putting People First

Learning from games: a language for designing emotion

Joe Lamantia, an Amsterdam based experience architect, discussed the role of emotion in game design. In his article, Lamantia draws heavily on the work by Nicole...

Technology will allow us to become digital nomads
From Putting People First

Technology will allow us to become digital nomads

Technology pundit Mike Elgan says on Nokia’s IdeasProject that we’re evolving a new paradigm for the workplace as technology makes it easier for white collar workers...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

Nokia

Designing waits that work
From Putting People First

Designing waits that work

The MIT Sloan Management Review has published Donald Norman’s paper ‘Designing Waits That Work‘ (available for $6.50). It is based on a 2008 paper by Norman, entitled...

An interview with Eric von Hippel
From Putting People First

An interview with Eric von Hippel

Scott Wilson interviewed Prof. Eric von Hippel of MIT

Nokia in trouble? How fast can a mobile device giant react?
From Putting People First

Nokia in trouble? How fast can a mobile device giant react?

Fascinating and seemingly very realistic tale on the potential of Nokia (and other device manufacturers) to be able to react to the introduction of the iPhone in...

Experience sampling on the iPhone
From Putting People First

Experience sampling on the iPhone

Can the Apple iPhone measure your happiness, asks Jenna Wortham on the New York Times Bits blog. “Matt Killingsworth, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Harvard...

User research at Apple
From Putting People First

User research at Apple

In a truly excellent article, entitled “You can’t innovate like Apple”, Alain Breillatt also discusses Apple’s approach to user research. “While I

People will be able to control and federate their own data
From Putting People First

People will be able to control and federate their own data

John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University, predicts, in this video on Nokia’s IdeasProject, a huge shift over the next one to two years in...

Stanford seminars on people, computers and design
From Putting People First

Stanford seminars on people, computers and design

“CS547. Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)” is a course of the Stanford HCI Group, coordinated by Terry Winograd, on...

What is the interest created by conversational currency?
From Putting People First

What is the interest created by conversational currency?

As the world moves to accommodate

Conceptual consumption
From Putting People First

Conceptual consumption

An article in the New York Times Magazine brought me to an interesting article by behavioural economist Daniel Ariely, who has been featured previously on this...

How wired gadgets encroach on privacy
From Putting People First

How wired gadgets encroach on privacy

With every high-tech gadget we buy, we give up a little more privacy. Many devices today are in constant communication with their manufacturer. And it’s not just...

Indian Design for All newsletter features German design
From Putting People First

Indian Design for All newsletter features German design

The Design for All Institute India has published a special issue of its newsletter together with IDZ International Design Centre, Berlin. Guest Editor is Prof Birgit...

Benedict Singleton on socio-technical assemblages
From Putting People First

Benedict Singleton on socio-technical assemblages

Benedict Singleton is in the later stages of a practice-based PhD on service design at Northumbria University. In his research he uses “critical, self-directed...
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