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[Book] The Smarter Screen
From Putting People First

[Book] The Smarter Screen

The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior by Shlomo Benartzi Penguin Random House October 2015, 256 pages A leading behavioral...

Behavioral modeling – Shaping cultural change and behavioral evolution
From Putting People First

Behavioral modeling – Shaping cultural change and behavioral evolution

One of the things we do here at Experientia that really sets us apart from other UX agencies is behavioral modeling. Our cognitive and behavioral models go beyond...

[Book] Small Data
From Putting People First

[Book] Small Data

Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends Hardcover by Martin Lindstrom February 23, 2016 St. Martin’s Press, 256 pages Martin Lindstrom, a modern-day...

How the World Bank is ‘nudging’ attitudes to health and hygiene
From Putting People First

How the World Bank is ‘nudging’ attitudes to health and hygiene

Many of the problems governments and NGOs in developing countries are trying to fix are at least partly behavioural. This is where nudge theory comes in. It isHow...

McKinsey on customer experience
From Putting People First

McKinsey on customer experience

McKinsey just published no leas than six articles on customer experience: From touchpoints to journeys: Seeing the world as customers do To maximize customer satisfaction...

Collaborative consumption: from value for users to a society with values
From Putting People First

Collaborative consumption: from value for users to a society with values

Four European Union consumers associations – OCU (Spain), Altroconsumo (Italy), DECO-Proteste (Portugal) and Test-Achats/Test Aankoop (Belgium) – in collaboration...

User research to improve public-government interactions in the U.S.
From Putting People First

User research to improve public-government interactions in the U.S.

The U.S. federal government needs to improve how it interacts with the public. Enter the Federal Front Door, an initiative to improve public-government interactions...

Why We Post: social media through the eyes of the world
From Putting People First

Why We Post: social media through the eyes of the world

Nine UCL anthropologists spent fifteen months living in nine communities around the world, researching the role, uses and consequences of social media in people’s...

How semiotic ethnography solved the riddle: What do chronic pain patients want?
From Putting People First

How semiotic ethnography solved the riddle: What do chronic pain patients want?

In this article Laura S. Oswald discusses the advantages of semiotic research methods for decoding consumer experiences and translating them into marketing strategy...

[Research paper] Do Europeans Like Nudges?
From Putting People First

[Research paper] Do Europeans Like Nudges?

Do Europeans Like Nudges? By Lucia A. Reisch (Copenhagen Business School) and Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School) 29 February 2016, 37 pages Available at SSRN...

Singapore’s main newspaper on Experientia’s design with the elderly
From Putting People First

Singapore’s main newspaper on Experientia’s design with the elderly

Arti Mulchand reports in the Straits Times, Singapore’s main newspaper, on Experientia’s “Design for Ageing Gracefully” project: Putting faces to end-users early...

Design as Participation (Beyond User-Centered Design)
From Putting People First

Design as Participation (Beyond User-Centered Design)

In this long essay, published in MIT’s brand new Journal of Design and Science, Kevin Slavin argues that designers of complex adaptive systems are not strictlyDesign...

Patients know best: Qualitative study on how families use patient-controlled personal health records
From Putting People First

Patients know best: Qualitative study on how families use patient-controlled personal health records

Patients Know Best: Qualitative Study on How Families Use Patient-Controlled Personal Health By Hanna Schneider, Susan Hill, and Ann Blandford Journal of Medical...

Behavioural Insights applied to policy – European Report 2016
From Putting People First

Behavioural Insights applied to policy – European Report 2016

Behavioural Insights Applied to Policy: Overview across 32 European Countries Publications Office of the European Union February 2016 56 pages The Report covers...

We are hopelessly hooked (to digital devices)
From Putting People First

We are hopelessly hooked (to digital devices)

In his review of four recent books (see below), Jacob Weisberg explores in the New York Review of Books what it means to shift overnight from a society in which...

New Australian government website focused on user needs to go live by end of year
From Putting People First

New Australian government website focused on user needs to go live by end of year

A new government website for Australia, focused around citizens’ needs rather than government structures, could be launched by the end of the year, Paul Shetler...

Making the business case for user experience
From Putting People First

Making the business case for user experience

In the ‘age of the customer’, IT leaders should be paying particular attention to the growing business case for UX testing and research, writes Chloe Green in Information...

UX methodologies for pharmaceutical companies
From Putting People First

UX methodologies for pharmaceutical companies

PMLiVE, the news site for the pharmaceutical industry, is quite outspoken on the need for UX and customer experience methodologies in the pharmaceutical industry...

By studying underserved communities, Microsoft wants to improve UX for everyone
From Putting People First

By studying underserved communities, Microsoft wants to improve UX for everyone

August de los Reyes came to a new understanding of design after thinking about (and experiencing) disability. Disability, writes Cliff Kuang (who interviewed him)...

The new face of behavioral change in healthcare
From Putting People First

The new face of behavioral change in healthcare

Glen de Vries argues that tracking basic biology can create positive reinforcements for health-related behaviors?. Yet, he is faced with a challenge: those whoThe...
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