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Experientia researcher speaking at Harvard’s Medicine 2.0 conference
From Putting People First

Experientia researcher speaking at Harvard’s Medicine 2.0 conference

Experientia researcher Anna Wojnarowska spoke this Sunday at the Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston on her research on the influence of the hospital environment,...

Book: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction
From Putting People First

Book: Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction

Make It So – Interaction design lessons from science fiction By Nathan Shedroff & Christopher Noessel Rosenfeld Media September 2012 ISBNs: paperback (1-933820-98...

Book: Economy of Experiences
From Putting People First

Book: Economy of Experiences

Today Albert Boswijk, founder and CEO of the European Centre for the Experience Economy, contacted us about his new book “Economy of Experiences”. Boswijk co-founded...

UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience
From Putting People First

UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience

UX Curve: A method for evaluating long-term user experience Sari Kujala (a), Virpi Roto (b), Kaisa Väänänen-Vainio-Mattila (a), Evangelos Karapanos (c), Arto Sinnel...

Luxury brands need luxury retail experiences, even in the online space
From Putting People First

Luxury brands need luxury retail experiences, even in the online space

Jonathan Ross, business development director at FACT-Finder, discusses the steps luxury brands can take to ensure a more rewarding online retail experience for...

PARC ethnographer on the power of observation
From Putting People First

PARC ethnographer on the power of observation

In an article for GigaOM, Ellen Isaacs (personal site), a user experience designer and ethnographer for PARC, explains the benefits of using ethnography to develop...

Should we focus on user experience?
From Putting People First

Should we focus on user experience?

This article by my compatriot Koen AT Claes claims that our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience, and that we should go one step further...

The age of data sharing (report)
From Putting People First

The age of data sharing (report)

We live in an age of sharing. As consumers and online, we regularly share personal information, and generate new data through our browsing or purchasing history...

From design fiction to experiential futures
From Putting People First

From design fiction to experiential futures

In honor of its Ten-year Anniversary, the Association of Professional Futurists (yes, they exist!) launched its first publication, The Future of Futures. Edited...

Peter Merholz on Reframing 'UX Design'
From Putting People First

Peter Merholz on Reframing 'UX Design'

Peter Merholz, a UX thinker and practitioner whom I have always held in high esteem, has written a well thought through blog post on reframing UX design. The two...

Intel conversations about the future
From Putting People First

Intel conversations about the future

Intel dabbles in science fiction, titles ReadWriteWeb. On Monday, they write, Intel debuted a book of science fiction stories. Dubbed Imaging the Future And Building...

The bling approach to the school of the future
From Putting People First

The bling approach to the school of the future

Recently I have been exploring developments on the impact of new technologies on the future of education, particularly in high schools. The latest trend in education...

Service design in tourism
From Putting People First

Service design in tourism

SDT2012 was the first international conference on service design thinking in the travel and tourism industry. For the first time, the conference brought together...

Ubicomp’s colonial impulse
From Putting People First

Ubicomp’s colonial impulse

Paul Dourish and Scott Mainwaring, the founders of the Intel funded Social Computing Research Center at UC Irvine, presented yesterday a paper at Ubicomp 2012 with...

The new face of digital populism: The Netherlands
From Putting People First

The new face of digital populism: The Netherlands

Ahead of next week’s Dutch election, the UK think tank Demos launched Populism in Europe: Netherlands, which analyses the rise of Geert Wilders’ Partij voor de...

Marko Ahtisaari, “Nokia’s visionary,” wants to “out-design Apple”
From Putting People First

Marko Ahtisaari, “Nokia’s visionary,” wants to “out-design Apple”

Marko Athisaari, Nokia’s head of design, is pushing a general overall vision where advanced function is blended into unforgettable form¿post-industrial form. The...

Intel annual ‘Mobile Etiquette’ study examines online sharing behaviors around the world
From Putting People First

Intel annual ‘Mobile Etiquette’ study examines online sharing behaviors around the world

According to a recent multi-country study commissioned by Intel Corporation and conducted by Ipsos Observer on “Mobile Etiquette,” the majority of adults and teens...

Consumers say no to mobile apps that grab too much data
From Putting People First

Consumers say no to mobile apps that grab too much data

A study by the Pew Research Center, released Wednesday, found that among Americans adults who use smartphone apps, half had decided not to install applications...

Ericsson on evolving TV and video-consumption habits
From Putting People First

Ericsson on evolving TV and video-consumption habits

Ericsson is publishing interesting research these days (and therefore gets featured on this blog). Its latest TV and video ConsumerLab report found that mobile...

Africa embracing m-commerce
From Putting People First

Africa embracing m-commerce

In a new report from its ConsumerLab, Ericsson maps out the potential of transformation within m-commerce across the region of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on in-depth...
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