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Nokia Trends Lab
BMW reports on the secret life of cars
Trabber, the simple flight search engine
Rich ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities
The UK Department for Development has published a long study, written by a number of researchers from British and Australian Universities, about the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in low-income communities in Jamaica, India, South…
Nicolas Nova talk now on Google Video
User-driven innovation in Denmark and Finland
Designing for deterioration
Barcelona_London: comparing, contrasting and challenging two urban success stories
Today the UK think tank Demos launches a new collection of essays produced with Catalan think tank Fundació Ramon Trias Fargas comparing and contrasting the two urban success stories of London and Barcelona. The report, called BCN_LDN 2020, explores how…
Revolutionising prosthetics through user-centred design
Nokia’s view of the future – trends research, ethnography and design
Timo Veikkola, senior future specialist at Nokia, has just written an article for usability magazine uiGarden to expand on his vision of our future – already alluded to during his presentation at the PSFK conference just a few weeks ago.…
Bruno Giussani on how free talk services lead to surprising user creativity
Slides available of talk by Nicolas Nova in Turin
Financial Times editorial on how users are transforming innovation
Event highlights of Torino 2008 World Design Capital
Danish telecom provider TDC involves users in future product development
The Financial Times senior technology correspondent on where we go from here
Unlocking Innovation – why citizens hold the key to public service reform
From climate change to social care, innovation will be critical to meeting the public service challenges of the future. But traditional approaches to generating new ideas will not be enough. Rather than focusing on processes and pipelines, policymakers and service…
Cameron Sinclair’s Open Architecture Network [Business Week]
Like AdSense, which has given Madison Avenue executives the collective jitters, the Open Architecture Network (OAN) suggests that 2.0’s cocktail of collaborative technologies can have an equally radical influence on business and industry practices. In the case of the OAN,…
Donald Norman on the next UI breakthroughs
Jackson Fish Market – handcrafted software experiences
Jackson Fish Market, with the tagline “Handcrafted Software Experiences,” in November 2006. “In their introductory blog post, co-founder Hillel Cooperman talks about his grandfather’s fish store, Jackson Fish, a “small businesses was run by family, with everyone pitching in as…