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New phone features
From Putting People First

New phone features

The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research by Mformation (and reported by BBC) suggests. Some 61% of those interviewed...

Itsme concept evaluation
From Putting People First

Itsme concept evaluation

Some months ago I wrote on Core77 about Itsme, a new “design-driven” way of organizing the contents of a PC, covering both the hardware and the software of the...

Experience design for interactive products
From Putting People First

Experience design for interactive products

Experience design for interactive products: designing technology augmented urban playgrounds for girls (pdf) is the long title of an interesting paper by Aadjan...

People-centric sensing in the city of the near future
From Putting People First

People-centric sensing in the city of the near future

More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further: “In the past...

Sensing the world with mobile devices
From Putting People First

Sensing the world with mobile devices

The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach: By putting mobile...

Experientia and European research projects
From Putting People First

Experientia and European research projects

Experientia is currently planning to participate in a number of European research projects, and is looking for partners and interesting collaboration opportunities...

Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design
From Putting People First

Indian usability conference tackled digital divide and user experience design

As part of the World Usability Day 2008, the Department of Information Technology at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology (V.I.I.T.), Pune (India) hosted...

Interfaces Magazine
From Putting People First

Interfaces Magazine

Thanks to Vodafone’s Anxo Cereijo-Roibas, I just discovered Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the...

This is iQ
From Putting People First

This is iQ

Matthew Neal contacted me today about a design challenge Toyota recently gave to students at the Royal College of Art London to create a household item that represents...

Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo
From Putting People First

Interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo

Peter Merholz, President of Adaptive Path, has published the first part of an interview with Margret Schmidt, VP of User Experience Design and Research at TiVo....

Seeing other people
From Putting People First

Seeing other people

Social networking has become an integral part of our lives, but how much say will users have in what they do with social networking and what it looks like? This...

IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace
From Putting People First

IBM research on the use of social software in the workplace

Both Penny Edwards (Headshift) and Bill Ives (Fast Forward) report on recent IBM research on social software in the marketplace: To what extent does your company...

Don
From Putting People First

Don

I find articles with titles like this difficult to digest. What if you are under 30? And especially if the article is filled with banalities - partly put in the...

Book: Elsewhere, U.S.A.
From Putting People First

Book: Elsewhere, U.S.A.

Elsewhere, U.S.A. How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety by Dalton...

10 most common misconceptions about user experience design
From Putting People First

10 most common misconceptions about user experience design

Whitney Hess, an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant, asked some of the most influential and widely respected [USA] practitioners in UX...

Smart homes haven
From Putting People First

Smart homes haven

New York Times technology reporter Steve Lohr reports on the “dream” of the smart home. “Yet the smart home has remained a dream for years, just over the horizon...

The 5 D
From Putting People First

The 5 D

Niti Bhan wrote a long article on Core77 on marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid. “The premise of the fortune at the base of the pyramid (BoP) is based on the...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

Nearly by accident I discovered Nokia’s recently launched IdeasProject, an effort “to surface Big Ideas about the future of communications — and to show the many...

On futures and design
From Putting People First

On futures and design

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, researcher director at the Institute for the Future, has posted a thoughtful essay on his blog about how trends in computing and design might...

People-centred design in times of frugality
From Putting People First

People-centred design in times of frugality

The current economic recession is turning out to be very severe (The Guardian evokes the spectre of a 1930s-style depression), with rich countries being the biggest...
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