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Dan Ariely on why we lie, cheat, go to prison and eat cake
From Putting People First

Dan Ariely on why we lie, cheat, go to prison and eat cake

Dan Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics and psychology at Duke University and the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions...

Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman Studying Hacker Culture
From Putting People First

Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman Studying Hacker Culture

As a grad student in anthropology, Gabriella Coleman was warned that studying the culture of computer hackers would make it hard to get a job teaching in a university...

The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life
From Putting People First

The Public Domain: Surveillance in Everyday Life

People create profiles on social network sites and Twitter accounts against the background of an audience. This paper by Alice Marwick argues that closely examining...

Context is key to making computers better conversationalists
From Putting People First

Context is key to making computers better conversationalists

When communicating, context is king. A breakthrough in modelling context in human communication could make computers better conversationalists, according to cognitive...

Nathan Shedroff on the past and future of experience design
From Putting People First

Nathan Shedroff on the past and future of experience design

Nathan Shedroff (bio), the pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, and the chair of the MBA in Design Strategy at California College...

Spaniards turn to barter, alternative banks to alleviate economic pain
From Putting People First

Spaniards turn to barter, alternative banks to alleviate economic pain

Spanish institutions are in no shape to help struggling Spaniards, so they’re turning to alternative banks and ways of exchanging goods to get by, reports Andr

What Facebook knows
From Putting People First

What Facebook knows

Deep inside the company, a team of social scientists is hunting for unprecedented insights about human behaviour, reports Tom Simonite, Technology Review’s senior...

The user experience of Windows 8
From Putting People First

The user experience of Windows 8

Windows 8 and the art of UX compromise by Ryan Bell, user interface software team lead at EffectiveUI Microsoft is cleverly promoting Windows 8 with the tagline...

Participatory design in action at Experientia
From Putting People First

Participatory design in action at Experientia

As a people-centred design company, Experientia

Book: Connected Health
From Putting People First

Book: Connected Health

Connected Health: How mobile phones, cloud, and big data will reinvent healthcare by Jody Ranck, DrPH GigaOm Books, June 2012 170 pages [Amazon Kindle edition]...

Who
From Putting People First

Who

Method principal Reuben Steiger argues that companies need to start thinking about the holistic relationship between their brands, products, and services. “Crafting...

SAP on visualising the future
From Putting People First

SAP on visualising the future

As visual analytics architect in SAP’s User Experience team, John Armitage is responsible for creating designs and design concepts for SAP’s analytics products....

A social network built around giving
From Putting People First

A social network built around giving

Model and actress Lily Cole’s social network, Impossible, has been designed for users to meet and help each other. Users post requests (say, “I wish to have a haircut”)...

Augmented sensing through smartphones
From Putting People First

Augmented sensing through smartphones

So how are we doing to augment our senses through digital technologies? Here are some of the products currently on the market that allow people to augment their...

Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion
From Putting People First

Charles Leadbeater: A curriculum for the Next Billion

Immediately a second post on writing done by Charles Leadbeater. Here he asks if we were to think of the future consumers of the developing world (whose income...

Charles Leadbeater: Why cities need to be hospitable rather than smart
From Putting People First

Charles Leadbeater: Why cities need to be hospitable rather than smart

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A huge chapter on
From Putting People First

A huge chapter on

The people of the Interaction-Design.org Foundation have given us (and you) preview access to “Socio-Technical Systems Design”, the 24th chapter of the “Encyclopedia...

Ethnographic research in a world of big data
From Putting People First

Ethnographic research in a world of big data

Following up on her earlier piece on ethnographic research in a world of big data, Jenna Burrell, sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Information...

Book: The Mobile Frontier
From Putting People First

Book: The Mobile Frontier

The Mobile Frontier – A Guide for Designing Mobile Experiences By Rachel Hinman Rosenfeld Media June 2012 Publisher’s page | Amazon page Mobile user experience...

Marty Kaplan: From Attention to Engagement (video)
From Putting People First

Marty Kaplan: From Attention to Engagement (video)

Barcelona Media, an interdisciplinary center of research and innovation, hosted Lear Center director Marty Kaplan to speak at its 10th anniversary celebration on...
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