Category Americas
Knowledge@Wharton on getting to the heart of the customer
Book: Worldchanging – A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
“A new book—an outgrowth of a popular Web site—focuses on simple and complex innovations that could solve global crises,” writes Reena Jana in Business Week. “The three-year-old Web site Worldchanging.com has quickly established itself as a source for original, sophisticated…
Whitepaper: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
Hybrid journalism: mixing pros and amateur-generated content
We Are Smarter Than Me
MacArthur launches $50 million digital media and learning initiative
More on IDEO: now redesigning a law school
Redesigning a labour union with the help of IDEO
IDEO’s urban pre-planning [Metropolis Magazine]
Ziba Design on the importance of informed intuition [Fast Company]
Bob Jacobson on advertising and experience design
Bob Jacobson is one of the more thoughtful thinkers on experience design and the commentary he provides on his Total Experience blog is therefore frequently cited on Putting People First. Yesterday he analysed how the advertising profession has opened a…
Interview with Stanford design school director
GE’s Kitchen of the Future with more talking refrigerators
Schools and universities setting up shop in Second Life [USA Today]
Microsoft Home showcases new prototypes of technology for daily living
“As part of its ongoing investments in exploring how software-driven innovations might influence consumers’ lives over the next five to 10 years, Microsoft Corp. recently unveiled a host of new and updated technologies in the Microsoft Home. The latest scenarios…