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? Free Music Weekend
From Wild WebMink

? Free Music Weekend

Over 40 free tracks! There has to be a new season coming as far as the music industry is concerned, because there’s a tide of free sample tracks both on Amazon...

From Computational Complexity

Comments

Bill and I are strong believers in freedom of speech and have long since had an open comment policy, allowing anonymous comments, no moderation (except old posts...

Trapped in the Anglosphere
From Putting People First

Trapped in the Anglosphere

Martin Kettle thinks the UK has lost sight of next door Europe, trapped as Brits are in their Anglo-centric internet. “It is hard to recall a time when the national...

Finland
From Putting People First

Finland

The 2010 Finnish National Innovation Strategy contains an important section on demand and user-driven innovation, with user-driven innovation being described as...

Does technology pose a threat to our private life?
From Putting People First

Does technology pose a threat to our private life?

This week Google’s Eric Schmidt suggested we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts

Microindustries Checkout Director
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microindustries Checkout Director

MicroIndustries on their touch&Go Digital Signage. A classic problem. Including this new development: " ... Here at Micro Industries, we offer retailers one of...

Younghee Jung on design research for Nokia
From Putting People First

Younghee Jung on design research for Nokia

Younghee Jung, manager and design researcher at the Nokia Research Centre in Bangalore, India, has been profiled again on the Nokia Conversations blog through a...

Designing for the loss of control
From Putting People First

Designing for the loss of control

The people at frogdesign have posted two long articles (the first one is really an essay) that we consider a recommended read: Openness or how do you design for...

Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces
From Putting People First

Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces

Imon Deshmukh of Cooper thinks that interfaces can be more closely integrated with the environment in which they operate. In an article on the Cooper blog, he shares...

Planting memories in people
From Putting People First

Planting memories in people

In our urge to create great products online, we should focus on making experiences happen that plant memories in people

Do you own your device, or it you?
From Putting People First

Do you own your device, or it you?

On August 12, at noon, ZDNet Australia organised a live broadcast on the future of email. The discussion delved into the issues and challenges facing email in its...

Gender differences in web usability
From Putting People First

Gender differences in web usability

Frank Spillers thinks the User Experience community has not fully tapped the potential of gender-specific design aka Woman-centered Design. According to Spillers...

If technology is making us stupid, it
From Putting People First

If technology is making us stupid, it

There has been growing concern that computers have failed to live up to the promise of improving learning for school kids. The New York Times, The Washington Post...

The Economist on social innovation
From Putting People First

The Economist on social innovation

In America and Britain governments hope that a partnership with

Innovation in Kenya
From Putting People First

Innovation in Kenya

In Making Do: Innovation in Kenya

Clay Shirky
From Putting People First

Clay Shirky

In this review of the book Over the holidays, I read Clay Shirky’s new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and found it quite wanting...

It pays to be useful
From Putting People First

It pays to be useful

In this review of the book 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Website, published by The Hindu, the author emphasises very strongly the importance of usefulness. “Create...

Why web tracking isn
From Putting People First

Why web tracking isn

Companies spend so much money on free services because of online advertising that trades in personal information. If Web users supply less information, the Web...

Finding happiness while spending less
From Putting People First

Finding happiness while spending less

Stephanie Rosenbloom writes in the New York Times on what will make us happy. “The practices that consumers have adopted in response to the economic crisis ultimately...

The dirtiest word in UX: complexity
From Putting People First

The dirtiest word in UX: complexity

In an article for UX Mag designer Francisco Inchauste examines some of the many faces of complexity and explores the balance we need to find for successful solutions...
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