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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Human Drives card set
Our friends at human-centered design consultancy Namahn in Brussels have created a lovely “human drive” card set to be used as a source of inspiration for ideation...
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BMW’s electric experience
Martin C. Pedersen reports in a long article for Metropolis Magazine on the 2014 BMW i3, the company’s first fully electric vehicle aimed at city driving. The article...
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Brave New City
Metropolis Magazine asked seven visionary design teams, both established and up-and-coming, what they predict a fully accessible city might look like (and better...
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Creating behaviour change in people using mobile technology
Rajeev Suri posted a short interview with Gustav Praekelt of Praekelt Consulting and the Praekelt Foundation, who focuses on creating behaviour change in people...
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The Age of User Experience Design – Infographic
The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking, but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased...
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User experience in the age of sustainability
Designers, as makers of products and services, are key stewards of our planet because the products and services we design influence the ways in which people live...
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Content and the journey: Building a good user experience for news sites
Discussions at recent news industry conferences have often referred to the importance of good user experience, particularly during discussions about how news outlets...
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Top 10 things still to fix in experience design
Here’s the view of Ray McCune, managing partner at Flow, on some of the peaks we still have to climb if experience design is to become a mainstream business discipline...
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Five new articles on UX Matters
Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing By Jim Ross, Principal of Design Research at Electronic Ink, Philadelphia, PA, USA Because user research studies peoples...
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Videos of keynote presentations at The Web and Beyond 2012
The Web and Beyond is a bi-annual conference organized by Chi Nederland, focused on the practice and business of user experience. On September 26, our 425 attendees...
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Making mobile phones work for the poor
In this BBC article, David Edelstein, a leader in the mobile for development space, argues that human networks are the essential ingredient for mobile phones to...
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Understanding the sensing city
Consultant Roger Dennis, who identifies himself as “serendipity architect”, has been writing a series of posts on meetings he had related to the sensing city. Together...
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An enchanted Odyssey on your iPad
Article by Francesca Salvadori, Scuolalvento blog Translation from the Italian Technology is probably the last thing that comes to mind when you think about poetry...
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Chris Noessel and Stefan Klocek presentation at D3
In August, Cooper directors Chris Noessel and Stefan Klocek discussed implicit interactions at Device Design Day 2012, organised by Kicker Studio in San Francisco...
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Ritual and the service experience
The interplay between efficiency and quality in a service experience is often what separates a merely transactional interaction from a valuable and pleasurable...
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I have seen the future and it’s worn
Paul Taylor of the Financial Times thinks wearable technology lives up to its promise at last. “For years, engineers have envisaged technology so personal that...
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How to create a cutting edge Smart City visitor experience
A four step guide from the Milan Expo 2015: Step 1 Ask your main sponsors (in this case Cisco, Enel and Telecom Italia) to indicate the relevant “Smart City” technologies...
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Anthropological study by Google on our magic relationship with mobile devices
What is the emotional relationship people truly have with the mobile space and how they make meaning there? To answer this, Google conducted an anthropological...
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Experientia at EPIC 2012
Experientia will be at EPIC Conference, on October 14-17 2012, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design [SCAD], Savannah, USA. This year, Experientia president...
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