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Book: UX Best Practices

UX Best Practices – How to Achieve More Impact with User Experience Helmut Degen & Xiaowei Yuan (Eds.) McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2011 ISBN-10: 007175251X, ISBN... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 3, 2012 at 09:14 AM

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Ethnography for user experience

In three essays John Payne, Principal of Moment’s Experience Design practice, reflects on his workshop, Ethnography for User Experience, and their field research... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 3, 2012 at 09:02 AM

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Intel’s futurist envisions life in 2022

Brian David Johnson gets paid to predict the future. He is the first, the one, and the only futurist at Intel, charged with envisioning how people will interact... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 3, 2012 at 08:34 AM

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Design principles for eating sustainably

“Design Principles for Eating Sustainably: Bridging the Gap Between Consumer Intention and Action” is the title of an ethnographic research driven service design... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 1, 2012 at 07:19 AM

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Don Norman: John Maeda and I failed to connect

As part of its Power of 10 lecture series, PARC Forum invited John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, and Don Norman, Co-founder of the Nielsen... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 1, 2012 at 06:59 AM

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The ethnographer’s reading list

Ethnography Matters has embarked on a new series called “The Ethnographer’s Reading List” with UX professionals discussing their summer reading. Here are the latest... Experientia
From Putting People First | August 1, 2012 at 06:51 AM

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Beyond reliability: An ethnographic study of Wikipedia sources

Almost a year ago, Heather Ford was hired by Ushahidi to work as an ethnographic researcher on a project to understand how Wikipedians managed sources during breaking... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 31, 2012 at 04:20 PM

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Is UX strategy fundamentally incompatible with agile or lean UX?

The take of the author Paul Bryan: UX strategy and agile UX are neither compatible nor incompatible. In an agile shop, UX strategists have to get ahead of the curve... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 25, 2012 at 12:48 PM

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UX for learning: design guidelines for the learner experience

With educational applications for kids, corporate eLearning, and online degree programs, more and more UX designers face design briefs for creating digital experiences... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 25, 2012 at 12:45 PM

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Making wearable technology wearable

This week at the San Francisco Wearable Technology Conference, Jennifer Darmour, UX designer at the Artefact Group, shared with other wearable technology experts... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 25, 2012 at 01:01 AM

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Experientia collaborating with UCLA Anderson School of Management

Experientia is one of 15 Italian companies and 53 companies worldwide participating in UCLA’s exclusive 2012 Global Access Program (GAP). GAP pairs Fully Employed... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 25, 2012 at 12:50 AM

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Silicon Valley worries about addiction to devices

Computers, smartphones and other gadgets have made life easier, but now tech firms are worried that they may be harming people. Huh? Tech firms worried about addiction... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 02:47 PM

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Make your users do the work

“Make your users do the work< ” is the not very people-centred title of a guest piece by Nir Eyal on Techcrunch. He argues that putting users to work is critical... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 09:20 AM

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Awesome experiences make us nicer

New research by published in the journal Psychological Science shows that awe-inspiring moments can literally make time seem to stand still, or at least slow down... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 07:14 AM

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Making sense of the cross channel experience

In this short essay, Jon Fisher of UK consultancy Nomensa presents some introductory thoughts about Nomensa’s framework for ”sense making in cross channel design... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 07:09 AM

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mHealth: the next frontier or too much hype?

mHealth: The Next Frontier For Mobile Service Growth By Scott Wilson and Phil Asmundson of Deloitte Advances in wireless remote patient monitoring (RPM) are expected... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 07:03 AM

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Debate on the UXPA name change

At the beginning of June, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) announced that from now on it would be known as the User Experience Professionals Association... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 06:54 AM

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Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s innovation system

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with Indian policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report by NESTA, the UK innovation agency, explores... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 24, 2012 at 06:36 AM

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Co-design in innovation

In a short post on the Huffington Post blog, author Soren Petersen describes how co-design – when firms and non-design users jointly design business and product... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 23, 2012 at 11:42 PM

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Book: This is Service Design Thinking

This is Service Design Thinking: Basics – Tools – Cases Edited by Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider BIS Publishers, 2011 376 pages (Amazon link) This is Service... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 23, 2012 at 11:11 PM