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Cultural anthropologist Mizuko Ito on kids’ participation in new media culture
Cultural anthropologist Dr. Mizuko Ito recently published a draft about kids’ participation in new media culture, reports Nicolas Nova in Pasta & Vinegar. The paper, entitled “Mobilizing the Imagination in Everday Play: The Case of Japanese Media Mixes”, addresses the…
Experientia partner publishes Italian book on web site usability
User-centered innovation at Intel [Electronic Business]
In a three-part special report of Electronic Business, Herman D’Hooge, innovation strategist in the User-Centered Platform Solutions Division at Intel, explains how a company can use a user-centered innovation process to engineer and develop innovative products. D’Hooge also gives an…
MIT is to make Denmark world champion in user driven innovation
Designing politics – the politics of design
With a commitment to conducting a discourse on the social responsibility of the designer and defining the democratic quality of design, the International Design Forum (IFG) Ulm, Germany announces its public call for project proposals addressing the topic of the…
Microsoft updates “Tech Tomorrowland” [PC Magazine]
Design as play
Welcome to the new dollhouse [The New York Times]
Forty percent of Americans play electronic games, poll shows [Seattle Times]
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]
Australian’s The Age profiles Intel anthropologist Genevieve Bell
Where’s the phone? A Nokia study of mobile phone location in public spaces
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…
Japan’s toys for the elderly [BBC]
Steelcase launches healthcare focused organisation
China needs design that sells [Business Week]
In an editorial for Business Week, Patrick Whitney, Director of the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, argues that companies designing products for the China market should have a design strategy that is more than just creating…
In today’s high-tech dating world, roses are often read
In this age of high-speed instant communication, the manner in which potential lovers interact is a complicated, tiered system that has reconfigured the way we court. Gone are the days when potential paramours exchange phone numbers and contemplate too long…