Category Design
What if your laptop knew how you felt? [Christian Science Monitor]
The home is not about efficiency or technology
User interface of the $100 laptop
The user interface for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, the initiative to put $100 laptops in the hands of children around the world led by Nicholas Negroponte, the founding director of the MIT Media Lab, “uses a highly…
Can mobile phones give you ‘presence?’ [International Herald Tribune]
Dutch heritage conference highlights lack of audience understanding
Cisco focuses on end-user experience [IDG News Service]
The user experience of executive dashboards
Interview with author of “Designing Pleasurable Products”
Design 21, a social design network, in partnership with UNESCO
Design 21: Social Design Network is an online community, created in partnership with UNESCO, where members of the design community, socially conscious individuals, local governments, businesses and non-profit organizations (NPOs) can address social concerns and create smart solutions through design.…
Philips Design on sustainability and the virtual world
The January 2007 issue of ‘new value by One Design’ (what’s up with that name?), the quarterly magazine of Philips Design, is devoted to articles on sustainability and the virtual world. Some highlights: Helping 400 million people give up smoking…
Good user experience at Microsoft
Crowdsourcing product development
Don Norman outlines three challenges for HCI
The ever-increasing complexity of everyday things, the ever-increasing burden of security, authentication, and identification and the ever-increasing use of automation are according to Don Norman the three large, overriding issues in the field of human-computer interaction. After all, he writes…
We need theories of experience design
The Boston Globe interviews Marvin Minsky on book “The Emotion Machine”
Motorola’s Motofone experience website
Dreaming of people-centred RSS feeds
To write a professional blog like Putting People First, one needs to scan a lot of material. In fact, Putting People First would be impossible to compile without the help of RSS. I am subscribed to a great many of…