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Donald Norman’s new book: “The Design of Future Things”
Advanced programme of CHI 2007 available
The CHI 2007 organisers have published an “advanced programme” of the conference, which will take place 28 April – 3 May in San Jose, California. Some highlights: Opening plenary: “Reaching for the intuitive” by Bill MoggridgeBill will attempt to show…
Usability to the people
Videos of “Digital, Life, Design” conference online
High technology meets cultural anthropology: Dr Genevieve Bell
Demanding Innovation: Lead markets, public procurement and innovation
Uploading innovation, a NESTA event
Monocle interview with Lego CEO
The newly launched Monocle magazine features a video interview with Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on its home page. In the interview, Knudstorp starts of by explaining how they became a user-centred toy company by involving their users to an…
Putting People First poll
Young, mobile, but not yet online [The Times]
Internet users transformed into news reporters [AFP]
User research in a different world
MySpace faces stiff competition in Japan [AP]
Yuri Kageyama (blog), AP Business writer, reports: Visit Japan’s top social-networking site, the 8-million-strong “Mixi,” and you’ll see prim, organised columns and boxes of stamp-size photos – not the flashy text and teen-magazine-like layout of its American counterpart, MySpace.com. The…
10 TouchPoints: design for everyday life in Singapore
The Economist on the end of the cash era
Adaptive Path president takes aim at Jakob Nielsen
Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME)
Glossary of social media for non-techies
Anne Kirah: “When culture meets technology and when technology meets culture”
Anne Kirah, until recently Senior Design Anthropologist at the Microsoft Corporation, spoke recently about her experience in developing software user interfaces that are based on local cultural conditions. The 50 minute talk, which can be seen in video stream, was…