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New report on service design impact in public sector

In this free report (pdf, 109 pages), the Service Design Network – in collaboration with the Netherlands Enterprise Agency – has identified five different areas... Experientia
From Putting People First | November 1, 2016 at 07:35 AM

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IKEA/Economist Group (EIU) study focuses on the new ‘American Dream’ today

Press release – September 21, 2016 Discovering the New American Dream, an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report sponsored by IKEA US shows that the AmericanIKEA... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 31, 2016 at 05:06 AM

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Upcoming conference on design & sustainable innovation for smart cities

Invitation to the International Conference on Design & Sustainable Innovation for SmartCities Nice (France) 8 December 2016 On the 8th December 2016, the CITYOPT... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2016 at 06:37 AM

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[Book] From Notes to Narrative

From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies that Everyone Can Read by Kristen Ghodsee The University of Chicago Press 2016, 160 pages Ethnography centers on[Book]... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2016 at 06:22 AM

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Mozilla’s Open Innovation Toolkit

Mozilla’s Open Innovation Toolkit is a community sourced set of practices and principles for incorporating human-centered design into your product development process... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 29, 2016 at 05:50 AM

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[Book] Org Design for Design Orgs

Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams By Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner Publisher: O’Reilly Media August 2016, 198 pages Design... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 22, 2016 at 12:34 PM

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Behavioral economics, UX design and insurance

The key to unlocking the insurance industry, writes Richie Hecker in TechCrunch, is understanding behavioral economics. The most successful players in insurance... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 18, 2016 at 11:44 AM

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Interaction Design is dead. What now?

Ralph Ammer argues that interaction design is based on technological thinking and restricted to profitable applications, and proposes a new direction, which heInteraction... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 18, 2016 at 11:31 AM

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Flaws of the Smart City – A design friction kit

Flaws of the Smart City is a critical, workshop-tailored kit to explore the dark faces of the so-called Smart Cities. As any hardware or software piece, the connected... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 18, 2016 at 11:16 AM

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Study says aggressive drivers see autonomous cars as easy prey

Aggressive drivers are looking forward to sharing the road with autonomous cars as they believe they can cut in front of them easily. This is how Peter Campbell... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 16, 2016 at 10:59 AM

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New Masters in Interaction Design in Italy

Gillian Crampton Smith (among others former director of the legendary Interaction Design Institute Ivrea) and Philip Tabor (among others fomer director of the Bartlett... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 15, 2016 at 05:41 AM

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IFTF uncovers seven new worker archetypes of the on-demand economy

Institute for the Future, the Caiifornia-based independent, nonprofit strategic research group, releases a new report aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of... Experientia
From Putting People First | October 2, 2016 at 04:21 AM

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The Adaptive Reuse Toolkit

The Adaptive Reuse Toolkit – How Cities Can Turn their Industrial Legacy  into Infrastructure for Innovation and Growth by Matteo Robiglio Policy Paper, September... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 30, 2016 at 06:28 AM

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Health as a social movement

Last week, the UK innovation charity Nesta launched a new report, Health as a Social Movement: The Power of People in Movements. It illuminates the value and role... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 27, 2016 at 04:06 AM

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[Book] The Stuff of Bits

The Stuff of Bits – An Essay on the Materialities of Information By Paul Dourish MIT Press, April 2017 264 pages The central topic of The Stuff of Bits is the materialities... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 26, 2016 at 06:09 AM

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Three new reports on behavioural science applied to policy making

European Commission There is growing recognition that behavioural insights (BIs) by shedding light on how people actually make choices help deliver more effective... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 25, 2016 at 05:02 AM

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[Book] The Cyber Effect

The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online Dr. Mary Aiken Spiegel & Grau, August 2016 400 pages A groundbreaking... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 18, 2016 at 09:14 AM

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Better decisions by design: applied behavioral science

Can we design a decision aid that gives us health information we need and counters our biases so that we end up more knowledgeable and confident in our preference... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 18, 2016 at 07:08 AM

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Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic on the home of the future

Jasmina Tesanovic (previously) and Bruce Sterling did a residency at The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD (San Diego, USA), working with the... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 18, 2016 at 06:18 AM

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Great engine, but the fuel seems poor. Discussing insight development in corporate marketing

The September issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contains a lengthy essay, entitled Building an Insights Engine, on how Unilever has created the organizational... Experientia
From Putting People First | September 5, 2016 at 04:38 AM