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Short report on EPIC Europe, a conference on ethnography research in industry
From Putting People First

Short report on EPIC Europe, a conference on ethnography research in industry

Short report on the first European EPIC meeting by Anna Wojnarowska, UX researcher at Experientia: Last Friday, 11th of May, around 100 members of the ethnographic...

Is the 1,9,90 rule outdated?
From Putting People First

Is the 1,9,90 rule outdated?

The BBC have just released some interesting research around participation online, writes Neil Perkin on FutureLab. The findings (the result of a “large-scale, long...

New design practices for touch-free interactions
From Putting People First

New design practices for touch-free interactions

Brian Pag

Do you really want your bank following you around all day?
From Putting People First

Do you really want your bank following you around all day?

A conversation with senior Wells Fargo execs reveals a bank trying to use the Internet, social media and mobile technology to worm its way deeper and deeper into...

People-powered health co-production catalogue
From Putting People First

People-powered health co-production catalogue

The people at Nesta, the UK innovation charity, think that co-production is potentially transformative and its power comes from re-framing the problem and re-establishing...

User experience and neuroscience
From Putting People First

User experience and neuroscience

Harvard neuroscience researchers have just confirmed what many of us have suspected all along: social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are...

Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think
From Putting People First

Neurologist: Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think

Leading neurologist Susan Greenfield tells Nokia Conversations that we need a new framework to make sense of our

The false question of attention economics
From Putting People First

The false question of attention economics

An older post, but I missed it. So here it is, more than two years after it was published by Stowe Boyd: “A few posts have emerged recently that recapitulate the...

Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business
From Putting People First

Customer experience: The natural ally for UX in business

In a blog post (which is itself a paraphrased transcript of his talk at the Polish IA Summit 2012), Peter Bogaards talks about the relationship between user experience...

User experience is strategy, not design
From Putting People First

User experience is strategy, not design

Peter Merholz, VP of experience design at Inflection (and founder of Adaptive Path), thinks there is no such thing as a UX design profession. User experience is...

Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting
From Putting People First

Experientia at EPIC Europe meeting

Experientia partner in charge of user research, Michele Visciola, will be one of the speakers at the EPIC Europe one-day meeting at the Elisava Design School in...

How companies like Amazon use big data to make you love them
From Putting People First

How companies like Amazon use big data to make you love them

Businesses now sit on data goldmines, but very few leverage the data to improve customer service. Ziba’s creative director Sean Madden suggests three ways forward...

Social TV and the second screen
From Putting People First

Social TV and the second screen

Social TV is a major disruption in the rapidly changing television industry. In the free report “Social TV and the second screen“, Stowe Boyd, acclaimed futurist...

How to win the UX war within your organization
From Putting People First

How to win the UX war within your organization

When companies don

To really understand social media, you must also understand online communities
From Putting People First

To really understand social media, you must also understand online communities

When we talk about social media we are really only talking about tools that we can use to help us and the people we engage to achieve a task. To make a success...

The demise of the ethnographic monograph
From Putting People First

The demise of the ethnographic monograph

As ethnographic practice has spilled out into the broader world of design and policy-making, business strategy and marketing, the monograph has not remained the...

Extending the experience beyond the device
From Putting People First

Extending the experience beyond the device

Tim Todish provides some good examples of companies extending the (user) experience beyond the device as a good way to differentiate from the competition. “Most...

A retrospective of talks given by ethnographers at Lift Conference since 2006
From Putting People First

A retrospective of talks given by ethnographers at Lift Conference since 2006

Of all the conferences that are dedicated to discussions on technology and society, there

The downside of digital life: disconnection
From Putting People First

The downside of digital life: disconnection


Researching meaning: making sense of behaviour
From Putting People First

Researching meaning: making sense of behaviour

In his last article Simon Norris, founder and CEO of Nomensa, outlined a simple model
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