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Can a crowd really edit our daily paper? [The Guardian]
Consumer generated campaigns
Negative user experience of World Cup on mobile phones [MEX]
Our credibility loop
“Why not transfer money and efforts from the end (advertising) to the start (R&D) of a product life cycle”, asks David Carlson, the well-known Swedish design entrepreneur, in the June 2006 issue of the David Report, a new bimonthly newsletter…
Digital living takes off in Asia [BBC]
Asian countries lead the world in creating digital homes, with Taiwan and Korea at the forefront, says a study. The research, carried out by US market research firm Parks Associates, looked at digital living trends in 13 markets in Asia,…
Usability makes the world work better
The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) just launched the official website and event registration for the 2006 World Usability Day, a global series of events on November 14, 2006 to promote awareness of the benefits of usability engineering and user-centered design.…
Experiencing digitally resurrected cultural heritage sites
Self-checkout? Just you wait [The Washington Post]
To charge up customers, put customers in charge [The New York Times]
Service innovation through design thinking
Older Consumers Flex Their Muscle (and Money) Online [The New York Times]
Organic launches Experience Labs
The ethnography of marketing [Business Week]
The new core competency is ethnography. Companies use it to gain insights into the culture and behavior of their customers. But the demands of business are different from those of an anthropologist doing field research. The most obvious is speed.…
Morphing and transforming objects as new interfaces
Innovation through design thinking
Book review: Paper Prototyping
Banks creating a better branch experience
Nokia design director describes second stage of mobile communications
This afternoon Nokia’s Design Director Marko Ahtisaari talked about “Mobile 2.0: Social Renaissance†at Reboot 8.0 in Copenhagen, Denmark. In his talk, which is summarised by Nicolas Nova on Pasta & Vinegar, Ahtisaari described the second stage of mobile communication.…
ICT trends are changing how we teach and learn
Computers and technology are blurring the line between what we think of as traditional education – that is, going to school and sitting in classrooms; and what we think of as homework – that is, reading textbooks and studying for…