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Management guru C.K. Prahalad and the experience of the teddy bear
In an article in the Dutch language Voka Tribune (Voka is the professional association of companies in Flanders, Belgium), management guru C.K. Prahalad talks about the importance of co-creating experiences, starting from the Build the Bear example. Since the article…
“My New Leg”
TI working with end-users to design their perfect product
The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0
For better or worse, adults learn to say it with emoticons
Bill Gates on natural user interfaces
New York Times questions von Hippel by underlining value of top-down innovation approach
Social scientists studying human interaction in online worlds
Mapmaking for the masses, online
Nokia Trends Lab
BMW reports on the secret life of cars
Trabber, the simple flight search engine
Young keep it simple in high-tech world
Rich ethnographic reports about the uses of ICT in low-income communities
The UK Department for Development has published a long study, written by a number of researchers from British and Australian Universities, about the social and economic benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in low-income communities in Jamaica, India, South…
Research on smartphones and the work-life balance
User-driven innovation in Denmark and Finland
User experience for OpenOffice.org
The German interaction designer Matthias Müller-Prove is the co-lead on the user experience project of OpenOffice.org and has just published an article about his activities. Open source software (OSS) is a paradigm for developing software in a non-proprietary fashion by…