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MindLab, Denmark’s cross-ministerial innovation unit
From Putting People First

MindLab, Denmark’s cross-ministerial innovation unit

MindLab is a Danish cross-ministerial innovation unit which involves citizens and businesses in creating new solutions for society. It is also a physical space...

Gestural interaction with data
From Putting People First

Gestural interaction with data

The Ericsson UX Lab has been prototyping and testing gestural interaction solutions with data: “This spring we worked on how to visualise and interact with data...

Qualitative research, UX strategy and wicked problems
From Putting People First

Qualitative research, UX strategy and wicked problems

These are the topics of the latest update on UX Matters: Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative and Qualitative Research By Demetrius Madrigal and Bryan McClain...

Curious Rituals – Gestural interaction in the digital everyday
From Putting People First

Curious Rituals – Gestural interaction in the digital everyday

Curious Rituals is a research project conducted at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) in July-August 2012 by Nicolas Nova (The Near Future Laboratory / HEAD...

Focus on service design – in UK and in Italy
From Putting People First

Focus on service design – in UK and in Italy

Earlier this year, the UK Design Council and the Arts & Humanities Research Council conducted a wide ranging review of the place of design research in UK universities...

John Payne on his Occupy Wall Street ethnography
From Putting People First

John Payne on his Occupy Wall Street ethnography

A few weeks ago, Tricia Wang asked John Payne, a principal of Moment, to write a guest post on Ethnography Matters about his ethnographic field work on Occupy Wall...

Perception Strategy: The Emotional Side of User Experience
From Putting People First

Perception Strategy: The Emotional Side of User Experience

The way we interact and respond to information depends on many things: our goals about what we want to do with that information, the nature of the information,...

The new multi-screen world: understanding cross-platform consumer behavior
From Putting People First

The new multi-screen world: understanding cross-platform consumer behavior

Google published yesterday a research report on how consumers use different devices together and navigating the new multi-screen world. They set out to learn not...

The best interface is no interface
From Putting People First

The best interface is no interface

Golden Krishna of Cooper argues that it’s time for us to move beyond screen-based thinking. “Because when we think in screens, we design based upon a model that...

Report: Managing Megacities (by UX Lab at Ericsson Research)
From Putting People First

Report: Managing Megacities (by UX Lab at Ericsson Research)

Megacities may be congested and complex, but are also among the planet’s most exciting places to live. They have proven effective at stimulating creativity, innovation...

What data can’t tell you about customers
From Putting People First

What data can’t tell you about customers

Across industries, companies are using the vast amounts of user-generated data to guide innovation of new products and services. But data mining does not equate...

The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012
From Putting People First

The first Informal Economy Symposium in Barcelona – October 12, 2012

HOW WILL the informal economy impact the global business landscape? The landscape of the Informal Economy is vast – from street vending to P2P networks, from piracy...

Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology
From Putting People First

Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology

Care at a Distance : On the Closeness of Technology By Jeannette Pols Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2012, 204 pages This widely researched study demonstrates...

Touch in cars is still too complicated
From Putting People First

Touch in cars is still too complicated

It is not a secret that touch is not as easy as it seems and very difficult to get right, writes Wolfgang Gruener on Conceivable Tech. Cadillac is the first company...

How to reimagine wearable technology
From Putting People First

How to reimagine wearable technology

PSFK spoke to Dhani Sutanto, a Digital Art Director who became fed up with swiping his Oyster card through the reader like millions of other Londoners each day....

Interaction design for data visualizations
From Putting People First

Interaction design for data visualizations

Interactive data visualizations are an exciting way to engage and inform large audiences. They enable users to focus on interesting parts and details, to customize...

Service design at IKEA
From Putting People First

Service design at IKEA

Walking through IKEA over the weekend with two young children, writes Shailesh Manga on UXMovement, was a healthy reminder of what contributes to an ideal customer...

Tablet versus PC: a creative decision
From Putting People First

Tablet versus PC: a creative decision

By fighting over whether tablets or PCs are better tools for creating content—as a sort of proxy war over whose vision owns the future of computing devices—we may...

What marketing executives should know about user experience
From Putting People First

What marketing executives should know about user experience

“What marketing executives should know about user experience” is the title of a short and introductory piece, mainly aimed at marketing people, by Nick Myers, managing...

Social media’s neoliberal world view (and how it affects us all)
From Putting People First

Social media’s neoliberal world view (and how it affects us all)

Recently I have embarked on trying to understand better the underlying ideology and world view of the Silicon Valley tech scene, and how this is impacting our daily...
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