Category Technology (general)
Uday Dandavate on striking a balance
Through Core77, I learned about the thinking of Uday Dandavate, a principal of the participatory design agency Sonic Rim. Dandavate, who is trained as an industrial designer and is from Indian origin, is a thorough believer in the duty of…
Samsung’s DigitAll magazine devoted to design
Philips/Visa usability study shows consumers like contactless payment technology (NFC)
Nokia online magazine on music and mobility
Digital kids series
Mediamatic publishes comprehensive reader on RFID
Mediamatic, the Amsterdam cultural institution, has published a comprehensive reader on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), as a preparation for their upcoming workshop on The Internet of Things (9-11 May – speakers include Régine Debatty and Malcolm McCullough). “Radio frequency identification…
Philips Next Simplicity Event
BBC unveils radical revamp of website [The Guardian]
The latest from GAIN, AIGA’s Journal of Business and Design
We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world [The Guardian]
With globalisation, most anticipate an inter-connected world with greater understanding of multiple cultures more than ever before. Martin Jacques, a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, argues in The Guardian that this assumption is at…
Interview with Microsoft ethnographer Tracey Lovejoy
Philips design magazine on emerging markets, sustainability and innovation
Philips released today the April issue of new value by One Design, its online quarterly design magazine. The current issue starts with an introductory article on designing for emerging markets by Stefano Marzano, CEO and chief creative director, and then…
Book: Mobile Interaction Design
Donald Norman on emotionally-centred design
Whirlpool’s in.home project
The future of the internet [Red Herring]
Alarm over shopping radio tags [BBC]
New report on the relationship between teens, technology and society
HP targets “next billion customers” with technologies for growing economies
HP yesterday announced new technologies, created by researchers in HP Labs India, which are designed to help grow opportunities in rapidly expanding economies. The technologies, which primarily focus on India but also address markets in China, Russia and Brazil, are…