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• Nokia has designs on India

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Nokia’s senior design specialists are touring India to discover how Indians use cellphones. Leslie D’Monte reports for New Delhi’s Business Standard. Jhanvi Madan (not her real name), who lives in Mumbai , has been talking on her cellphone. Unknown to her, a stranger on the other side of the road is observing ...
  3 days ago

• Accenture says tech-driven approach to CE innovation outdated

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Consumer electronics companies must rethink the old technology-driven approach to innovation because industry convergence has made this model obsolete, claims a study by Accenture . In the converging world, “high-performance businesses in the CE industry have begun to embrace a consumer-engagement-driven model of ...
  5 days ago

• Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and ...
  6 days ago

• Designing mobile money services for emerging markets

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Nokia user researcher Jan Chipchase has posted an in-depth presentation and paper on designing mobile money services for emerging markets: “Hang around a telecoms industry conference long enough and you start to get big-number fatigue – as one stack of seemingly impressive statistic blurs into the next. The ...
  1 week ago

• Social isolation and new technology

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  The Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey finds that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People’s use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. And, when we examine people’s full personal network – their strong ...
  1 week ago

• It’s OK To Poke

  
  Mike McCready — Authority: 114
  Growing up our parents use to tell us its not nice to poke our brother or sister, but we never really listened. Now that lack of listening can pay off. Lately at work there has been a lot of experimentation with software, processes,  methodologies, etc.  When talking to my colleagues, I’ve referred to this ...
  1 week ago

• Understanding users of social networks

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Harvard Business School professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski has spent years studying users of online social networks (SN) and has developed surprising findings about the needs that they fulfill, how men and women use these services differently, and how Twitter—the newest kid on the block—is sharply different from ...
  1 week ago

• Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  The November-December edition of Interactions Magazine is online and some articles are available without subscription. Unfortunately, the main menu page doesn’t say which articles are publicly available (although without images) and which aren’t (what about ‘affordances’ in web design?), so I have selected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Last week, the IASDR 2009 conference (International Association of Societies of Design Research) took place in Seoul, South Korea, and all videos of the keynote speeches are already available. Donald A. Norman: Science and Design I start with three contradictory views: First, that a science of design is already ...
  2 weeks ago

• SuperRacing presentation at Oz-IA

  
  USiT — Authority: 103
  On Friday the 2nd of October, two of the USiT team (Pat and Alun) gave a presentation at the first day of Oz-IA 2009, the 4th Australian Information Architecture conference. The presentation told the story, in 25 minutes, of the research and design for the SuperRacing website. The slides are shown below. Bringing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Computerworld New Zealand introduces user-centred web design. Introducing user-centred web design The first article in this series introduces the idea of User-Centred Design (UCD) — a design process that concentrates on designing websites for the people who will use them; rather than to embody the latest trends ...
  2 weeks ago

• the speed of the mobile web, part 1: user perception

  
  Little Springs Design — Authority: 406
  Last week, Gomez published "Why the Mobile Web is Disappointing End-Users,” which you can read online at Scribd . In summary, huge numbers of users are reporting problems with the mobile web, with download time the number one problem. While this seems simple, it really isnt. Consider my ongoing experience on my ...
  2 weeks ago

• 和苏丹老哥吃了顿阿拉伯餐，本想访谈一些外贸故事，没想到还帮他谈妥一笔生意。

  
  Alibaba.com UED — Authority: 92
  自前几个月仔细看了UX WEEK ...
  3 weeks ago

• Human behavior: the key to future tech developments

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs with new (or more often tweaked) products and services. CNN reports. “Microsoft and many other companies realize that since it is, after all, people who ...
  3 weeks ago

• iPhone Treading into RIM’s Territory

  
  AT&T (formerly Cingular) iPhone Reviews, iPhone Apps and Accessories — Authority: 146
  Just the fact that you’re reading this blog gives some indication of the fact that you appreciate the iPhone in some capacity. However, according to a recent study, the device’s popularity has been so broad that it’s smashing beyond the walls that have (until now) defined the consumer user market. In fact now it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Just add an egg: Usability, User Experience and Dramaturgy

  
  Konigi — Authority: 423
  Harry Brignull quotes a passage from Susan Marks Finding Betty Crocker to tell the story of how the cake mix maker used a clever bit of imagination about the process of using their product to give customers the feeling of playing a desirable role--that of home-maker and cook. They did this by simply requiring that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Myths and realities about women and mobile phones

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Mobile phones have been a boon to developing countries and to social development. Access to mobiles may indeed allow for better medical information, change the way farmers grow and sell crops, expand the way families interact, influence the way governments treat their citizens, and improve the way students learn in ...
  4 weeks ago

• Effectively Moderating Usability Tests, October 21

  
  UIE Brain Sparks — Authority: 109
  You’ve just been asked to moderate a usability test. Whether it’s your first or your 199th,do you know how to do it and capture the best results? Will you be able to start it without a lump in your throat, or without being distracted by the though that your every move is being watched? We’re bringing an expert ...
  4 weeks ago

• TalkTalk launches Digital Anthropology Report

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 432
  Yesterday TalkTalk , the UK broadband division of Carphone Warehouse, launched the Digital Anthropology Report – a comprehensive insight into how British people use the internet. “We spoke to over 2,000 people around the country and looked at their attitudes to technology, how they use the internet and other ...
  4 weeks ago

• Usability Testing: Do You Have the Right People In the Room?

  
  UIE Brain Sparks — Authority: 109
  In our next UIE Virtual Seminar, Recruiting for Usability Testing on Wednesday, September 30, usability testing expert Dana Chisnell shows you how to maximize your time and money on the right participants to get the right results.   User experience research lives or dies by the appropriateness of the ...
  8 weeks ago

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