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Nokia global user study on where people carry their phone
User research on how people consume news
Torino 2008 World Design Capital launches Torino GEODESIGN
Yesterday I went to a press conference by Torino 2008 World Design Capital at the Milan Design Fair which presented TORINO GEODESIGN. TORINO GEODESIGN (described in more detail in this Core77 article) is an international competition which will bring designers…
The revolution will be televised and then switched off
NESTA call for user-focused solutions to mental health problems
The UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is calling for innovative project proposals from front-line workers, carers and people with direct experience of mental distress, to tackle some of the key challenges surrounding mental health in…
In Europe, the social network as digital friend [International Herald Tribune]
New tricks and old dogs
Ubiquitous computing is messy
Simplicity: the ultimate sophistication
Experience or don’t experience. There is no try.
Consumer technology: is “ease-of-use” a myth?
A panel recently discussed the growing problems with product design features vs. the cry for “make it easy to use†and where designers and developers have to address this issue to win back consumers. Speakers were Bill Moggridge, founder of…
Nearly half of customer problems relate to handset configuration
McKinsey on how businesses are embracing Web 2.0. But why are they afraid of blogs?
Social-networking sites have business uses too [The Economist]
More and less: Designing for high-stakes decisions
International Journal of Design launched
The Collaborative State
The importance of magic in designing ubiquitous user experiences
Intel Technology Journal on “designing technology with people in mind”
The current issue of Intel Technology Journal, the company’s R&D webzine, is entirely devoted to people-centred design: Foreword Foreword By Herman D’Hooge Senior Principal Engineer Channel Platforms Group, Intel Corporation Ethnographic techniques Sideways glances: thinking laterally and holistically about technology…