Category Design
Rotman Magazine on the Creative Age
How to build a better product – study people [PC Magazine]
PC Magazine just published a long feature story on how anthropology is moving into the corporation. Product development has historically been predicated on a “build it and they will come” basis. But times are changing, consumer choice is increasing and…
LeadUsers.nl
Customer Experience is an organisational challenge, suggests business school research
Trendwatching report on businesses and co-creation
Design as play
Usability: it ain’t easy [TelecomAsia.Net]
With more advanced services rolling out across the planet, ease-of-use is becoming crucial to their success, but today’s user interfaces aren’t quite cutting it. Solving that will be a complex task, but the place to start is the users –…
When street ads give you a ring [International Herald Tribune]
PsychNology, a journal on the relationship between humans and technology
Empirical studies of the user experience
Mining the golden years [Business Week]
Cellphone gaming lacks pull, report shows [The Washington Post]
A thank you for all those nice words
With this post, I just want to publicly thank all those who have written nice words about Putting People First, especially after the recent relaunch. These include Bruce Nussbaum (also here), David Armano, Alan Chochinov, Ralf Beuker (also here), Rudy…
Australian’s The Age profiles Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell
Mobile computing in high-end retail
As mobile computing becomes increasingly popular in the fashion retail industry, challenges emerge pertaining to usability, system tailoring, and enhancing the manager-client user experience. These issues were addressed at LA Promotion (a facility where selected clients can acquire products three…