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World Economic Forum on Web 2.0 and emerging social network models
Philips integrates experience research in healthcare innovation
Book: Designing Emotions in Online Travel
The new book Designing Emotions in Online Travel by Soraia Cardoso of Sotopia Usability and René Vaartjes, provides new insights on how to arouse positive emotions at travel websites by using specific graphic elements, colours and online functions to ultimately…
Another Microsoft user experience “evangelist”
The Enchanted Office: “Once Upon A User Interface”
Nokia study on how rural India benefits from mobile communications
Mobile communication is revolutionizing economic and social life in rural India, spawning a wave of local entrepreneurs and creating greater access to social services according to a new study by The Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) commissioned by Nokia. Mobile…
Business apps giant SAP gets Web 2.0 bug [CNET News]
Microsoft and user experience
Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practices at Intel
User experience design resources [Dey Alexander Consulting]
Interview with Adam Greenfield on the user experience of ubiquitous computing
Régine Debatty (of we-make-money-not-art) and Nicolas Nova (co-organiser of the upcoming LIFT conference) have together interviewed Adam Greenfield in which he focuses on the user experience of ubiquitous computing. Greenfield is the principal of design consultancy Studies and Observations, and…
Futurist John Seely Brown: To fix education, think Web 2.0
Ahtisaari talk on the future of mobility
Students’ new best friend: ‘MoSoSo’ [Christian Science Monitor]
Developing user-centered tools for strategic business planning
Ethnography.com relaunched
IBM launches MySpace-like tools for companies [International Herald Tribune]
The user experience practitioner as change agent [UX Matters]
Nokia Research on Uganda’s Village Phone initiative
Jan Chipchase and Indri Tulusan of Nokia Research are on a roll. Following a July 2006 field study in Uganda, and previous presentations on shared phone practices and street charging services, they now explored the Village Phone initiative between the…