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DAILY INSIGHTS ON USER EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE DESIGN AND PEOPLE-CENTRED INNOVATION

• Experientia to redesign United Nations website

  Experientia, the international experience design consultancy based in Turin, Italy, will be designing the new website of the training arm of the United Nations’ International Labour Organisation (ILO). The International Training Centre of the ILO is an advanced training institute located in Turin, that sits at the forefront of strengthening the capacities, capabilities and competencies [...]

• Juicy stories and more

  Four new articles in today’s edition of UXmatters: Juicy stories sell ideas By Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks Storytelling fits into the design process in many places. You probably know that collecting stories is key to user research and ensuring your UX designs tell a clear story makes the resulting user experiences better. But in [...]

• The future of screen technology

  TAT, a Swedish software technology and mobile interface design company, recently ran a two-week open innovation experiment, during which they collaborate with the web community to sketch out an idea for two weeks and then build a video of the concept that gets most contribution and attention – measured in votes, ideas, and comments. They [...]

• Why privacy is not dead

  The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life, writes Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd in the Technology Review. “Each time Facebook?s privacy settings change or a technology makes personal information available to new audiences, people scream foul. Each time, their cries seem to fall on deaf ears. [...]

• A cyber-house divided

  Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups?and in both realms, peacemaking is an uphill struggle. The Economist reports in an article that quotes Danah Boyd and Ethan Zuckerman. “A generation of digital activists had hoped that the web would connect groups separated in the real world. The [...]

• Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised

  Adrian Chan of Gravity 7 and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon.com and lecturer at Stanford and UC Berkeley, together wrote an article on how best to respond to the world of social data, how to metabolize it, and incorporate it as if it belonged to the very company DNA. “If social data powers [...]

• Stowe Boyd?s thoughts on our social future

  Stowe Boyd went to BlogTalk in Galway, Ireland and came back inspired: sociality, he says, has turned out to be the most interesting thing to emerge from the past decade of the web. “The next generation of operating environments will be social at their core. Our current operating environments are based on standard understanding of [...]

• Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies

  A few days ago sociologist Ms Lucía Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). “Considering that young people nowadays are natives of the so-called digital culture, Ms Merino explored their relationship with the new technologies and how [...]

• Mobile devices and privacy

  Should we focus on changing the behaviour of people OR changing the behaviour of devices? That is the key question in article by Ajit Jaokar on his blog Open Gardens. “The many privacy related issues raised by the Web will be amplified in the world of mobility and even more so, in a world dominated [...]

• How mobile devices could lead to more city living

  People pushing sustainability don’t tend to be the same types who love our digital-crazed iWorld. And that’s a problem because it means they don’t push one of the great advantages of dense, energy-efficient cities: urban life integrates far better with mobile devices than does its car-logged suburban cousin. Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic’s lead technology writer, [...]