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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Gamification and UX: where users win or lose
In this long article, Peter Steen H
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Do people want touch on laptop screens?
Do people want touch on laptop screens? Daria Loi, user experience manager at Intel, did some research on the matter and the answer is a clear yes: people want...
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Communicating the UX value proposition
John Dilworth and Matt Miller of LDS Church provide an overall framework to communicate the value of UX within businesses, that directly associates the value proposition...
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How mobile technologies are shaping a new generation
Some interesting data by Tamara J. Erickson on what she calls the “Re-Generation”: individuals at the formative ages of 11 to 13, those born after about 1995 [which...
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Design Council revealed new designs to help people live well with dementia
The UK Design Council, in partnership with the UK Department of Health, ran a national competition to find teams of designers and experts who could develop new...
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The Kickstarter revolution
The first campaign to break the 1-million-dollar barrier in this revolutionary crowd-funding platform was an industrial design project. Could Kickstarter transform...
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The process of co-creation with users
In an article for UX Magazine, Catalina Naranjo-Bock provides a solid general description of co-designing processes: “The practice of co-design allows users to...
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Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users
Social media in particular has inexorably changed the world, driving openness and fear
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The flight from conversation
Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and professor at M.I.T., says we use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just...
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Rise of smart mobile services
Saar Gur, general partner at Charles River Ventures, discusses a new generation of smart mobile services, which provide user information in the background to make...
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From print to iPad: designing a reading experience
UX consultant Harry Brignull spoke at UX London 2012 about the design of The Week magazine
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Watching every click you make
Henry Alford, contributing editor at Vanity Fair, wonders when in the digital age, did privacy become a choice rather than a given. “When Facebook bought Instagram...
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Trust and the future of mobile money
Even within the technology community, 33% agreed with the below statement: “People will not trust the use of near-field communications devices and there will not...
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Internet must be a web not for the consumer, but for the citizen
In an editorial, The Guardian argues for an open web: “To protect the web’s founding principle is a matter of what Tim Berners-Lee would call citizen vigilance,...
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How to create products hand in hand with your customer
In his book “Wicked problems: Problems worth solving“, author John Kolko (founder and director of Austin Center for Design) argues that involving end users in the...
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How user research informed IKEA
IKEA’s new Uppleva Smart TV-furniture unit was extensively shown at the Milan Design Week (which ends today), and on Core77 I will write more today about the interface...
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Behaviour change as value proposition
Chris Risdon, senior experience designer at Adaptive Path, looks at the explosion of smart products, which passively collect data about you and your specific behavior...
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Intersection of the physical and digital worlds
Austin Brown, UX designer at EffectiveUI, and his colleague Lindsay Moore wondered if there was a way to design better, by combinubg the best aspects of interaction...
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Brains, Behavior and Design
Brains, Behavior and Design is a group of IIT Institute of Design students appling findings from the fields of cognitive psychology and behavioral economics to...
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