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• A summary of user research methods

  
  Column Two — Authority: 495
  Patrick Kennedy has posted a great summary of user research methods . To quote: There are many user research methods one can use, and there are even more variations and names for them. But regardless of what name they’re given, methods should be chosen that are suitable for the situation at hand.
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• Motorola research shows technology use is becoming age-neutral

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  The 2009 Media Engagement Barometer commissioned by Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business has revealed a shift in [US] consumer influence that hasn’t been widely recognized yet: age no longer dictates a consumer’s willingness or ability to use media technology or services. In fact, all generations ...
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• A summary of user research methods

  
  Pat's Point of View — Authority: 92
  There are many user research methods one can use, and there are even more variations and names for them. But regardless of what name they’re given, methods should be chosen that are suitable for the situation at hand. In this article I give a quick overview of the methods I commonly use, broken down in to main ...
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• 5 – Basics of what you need to know about eye tracking

  
  The Acagamic Blog — Authority: 114
  December 5 brings us a very clever, sober, and insightful presentation about eye tracking. Harry Brignull, who runs 90percentofeverything is a User Experience Consultant at Madgex in Brighton, England. In his presentation he manages to demystify some of the initial preconceptions one might have about eye tracking. He ...
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• Designing the Intel Reader

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  In a long article, the people in charge of the Intel Reader discuss the entire user-centred process of designing a new device for the blind or visually impaired which is aimed at making printed matter accessible to millions of people who find reading difficult or impossible, either because of vision problems or ...
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• Shifting Perspective

  
  Adaptive Path — Authority: 503
  We in the user experience design industry talk a lot about keeping the user’s perspective in mind as we make things. User research helps us do that. User testing keeps us in check. And here’s another interesting way to shift your perspective…shake things up and look at it from the object’s point-of-view. ...
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• Watch Pranav Mistry’s “The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology” demos at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 130
  We’ve already seen MIT researcher Pranav Mistry’s SixthSense projector-based augmented-reality system in some cool demos, but he just gave a TED talk and his latest ideas are the wildest yet. At TEDIndia , Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — ...
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• Two TED Talks Worth Watching

  
  Adaptive Path — Authority: 503
  Yesterday I watched two insightful and thought-provoking TED Talks with experience design themes. The first is Stefana Broadbent’s “How the Internet Enables Intimacy” . She presents meaningful commentary on the reality of how internet tools are used in a social, and intimate fashion. And I think her findings ...
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• Smart tools to reduce our impact on the environment

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  The latest issue of UPA’s UX Magazine is devoted to sustainable design, and one of the articles is by Experientia. In their contribution , Experientia collaborators Michele Visciola, Erin O’Loughlin and Irene Cassarino reflect on how smart tools can help reduce our CO 2 impact, and illustrate this with a case ...
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• Various articles on the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  A number of articles illustrate the power of the mobile phone in emerging markets: What next after the Mobile revolution in Kenya? by John Karanja MPESA will be on its own a major driver of the economic expansion of the Kenyan economy and best of all it will take a bottom up approach because it will empower the ...
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• May the (Tactile) Force Be With You

  
  DESIGNING *for humans — Authority: 99
    Here at Bresslergroup  we have recently started using a force-sensing "glove" for ergonomic research and analysis.  We use the FingerTPS ("tactile pressure sensing") system from Pressure Profile Systems.   Both the hardware and software are very easy to set-up and use; and weve been applying it to a range of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nokia has designs on India

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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• Accenture says tech-driven approach to CE innovation outdated

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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• Designing mobile money services for emerging markets

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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• Social isolation and new technology

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Understanding users of social networks

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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• Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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• Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  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 ...
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