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Do people want touch on laptop screens?
From Putting People First

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...

Communicating the UX value proposition
From Putting People First

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...

How mobile technologies are shaping a new generation
From Putting People First

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...

Design Council revealed new designs to help people live well with dementia
From Putting People First

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...

The Kickstarter revolution
From Putting People First

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...

The process of co-creation with users
From Putting People First

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...

Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users
From Putting People First

Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users

Social media in particular has inexorably changed the world, driving openness and fear

The flight from conversation
From Putting People First

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...

Rise of smart mobile services
From Putting People First

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...

From print to iPad: designing a reading experience
From Putting People First

From print to iPad: designing a reading experience

UX consultant Harry Brignull spoke at UX London 2012 about the design of The Week magazine

Watching every click you make
From Putting People First

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...

Trust and the future of mobile money
From Putting People First

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...

Internet must be a web not for the consumer, but for the citizen
From Putting People First

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,...

How to create products hand in hand with your customer
From Putting People First

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...

How user research informed IKEA
From Putting People First

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...

Behaviour change as value proposition
From Putting People First

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...

Intersection of the physical and digital worlds
From Putting People First

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...

Brains, Behavior and Design
From Putting People First

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...

Applying behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to the design process
From Putting People First

Applying behavioral economics and cognitive psychology to the design process

Artefact is, like Experientia, a UX design consultancy that is strongly inspired by cognitive and behavioral modeling, and uses all kinds of inputs from cognitive...

Tricia Wang on the geography of trust in social networks (video)
From Putting People First

Tricia Wang on the geography of trust in social networks (video)

Tricia Wang is a cultural sociologist interested in understanding how people use digital tools in their day to day lives. In her talk at the Lift 12 conference,...
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