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Participatory design – and why it’s more than user-centred-design
In a reflective article written as a follow-up to the Participatory Design conference held a few weeks ago in Trento, Italy, Ann Light dissects the difference between participatory design (PD) and user-centred design (UCD). “What is the status of the…
Get out of that rut and into the shower [The New York Times]
The Journey to the Interface: how public service design can connect users to reform
Britain’s digital tribes revealed [BBC]
How kayak users built a new industry [HBS Working Knowledge]
Children’s Museum of Manhattan emphasises play as foundation of learning [The New York Times]
Planning Portal – enabling transformational government
Planning Portal is not only a successful example of technology enablement in service delivery but could prove to be a tremendous asset for local authorities in their quest to develop and deliver citizen centric services, says eGov monitor. Just under…
Socio-Digital Systems, a Microsoft research project
C-Mine, creativity as a tool to transform a former Belgian mining area
Experience Design: Principles and Practices
Putting People First official blogger of the European Market Research Event 2006
Digital diversity – the end game?
David Gyimah, a video journalist and the director of the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC), has written a thought-provoking article on the future of diversity in the rapidly developing world of the net and connected mobile devices. “If the net…
The friendly face of business software [Business Week]
The new simplicity at Philips [Business Week]
Poverty-stricken Rwanda puts its faith and future into the wide wired world [The Guardian]
Rwanda’s Vision 2020 project aims to rapidly transform a depressed agricultural economy into one driven by information communications and technology (ICT). If it works, the percentage of Rwanda’s workforce involved in farming will drop from 90% to 50% in 15…
Talk to our customers? Are you crazy? [Fast Company]
The brand underground [The New York Times]
Aging in the 21st century [The New York Times]
Espressamente, Illy’s cult coffee bar [Business Week]
Italian coffee maker Illy is out to conquer the “last frontier” – the coffee bar. By rolling out a global chain of licensed cafes called “Espressamente,” Illy intends not only to sell more of its high-quality coffee, but to purvey…