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The Economist features work by Swisscom anthropologist Stefana Broadbent
Bruce Sterling moving to Torino, Italy
Bruce Sterling will be moving to Turin (a.k.a. “Torino”), Italy, starting September – for a period of six to eight months. Sterling [wikipedia – blog] is an American science fiction writer and highly acclaimed futurist thinker and design critic. His…
Web 2.0 is the web as it was originally envisioned – the internet of things is the real departure
The user is the content
Google photos stir a debate over privacy [The New York Times]
New UK centre of excellence in design, engineering, technology and business
New experience design school in the Netherlands cancelled
BBC News speaks to Jan Chipchase of Nokia Design
BBC News has just published a feature on Jan Chipchase, principal researcher at Nokia Design and frequently featured on this blog. “Jan Chipchase tours the world looking at how people use mobile phones in their everyday lives and, more broadly,…
UK report on culture, participation and the web
Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path on delivering value through experience
Young women now the most dominant group online in the UK
Improving the lives of those with dementia and their carers through design
Delta Airlines: change the experience / experience change
Swisscom launches Room 2.0
CHI 2007 – Can user-centred design be harmful?
Researchers and practitioners meeting at CHI 2007 produced the surprising argument that user-centred design is a bad idea, writes Andy Daerden on Usability News. Instead, a range of alternative approaches were proposed for projects in developing countries such as “community…
Healthcare insurers conduct ethnographic research and test prototypes to provide more personalised experiences
User-centered design game
The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure
36% of online American adults consult Wikipedia
More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter of 2007,…