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Watch Avi Itzkovitch’s “Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences” talk at Interaction’14 | IxDA Conference

"Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences" by Avi Itzkovitch
"Designing with Sensors: Creating Adaptive Experiences" by Avi Itzkovitch

Watch Avi Itzkovitch to discover core concepts for utilizing smart device technologies and sensor data in order to understand context, and add “Adaptive Thinking” to the UX professional’s toolset when designing experiences. In his presentation, Avi demonstrates the importance of understanding context when designing adaptive experiences, gives ideas on how to design adaptive systems and most important, inspires designers to think how smart device technology and context aware applications can enhance the user experience with adaptivity […]

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Design Readings

Watch Steve Baty’s “A Model of Behavioural Design” talk at Interaction’14 | IxDA Conference

Steve Baty's "A Model of Behavioural Design"
Steve Baty's "A Model of Behavioural Design"

This talk will outline the key inputs in a model of Behavioural Design and how those inputs help designers to directly target specific behaviours. It will look at the role of interaction design, behavioural psychology, systems thinking and other tools. And it will propose that a model of design with behaviour as its focus offers a coherent and complete approach to design in a way that is consistent with the goals of client organizations […]

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Listen to Andrew Hinton’s “The World Is The Screen: Elements of Information Environments” talk at IA summit 2013

Andrew Hinton's "The World Is The Screen"
Andrew Hinton's "The World Is The Screen"

This talk suggests that we not start from the perspective of the device, the content or the software; rather we should start with understanding how people perceive their whole environment […]

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Listen to Brad Nunnally’s “Users In The Mist: Stories From Field Studies” talk at IA Summit 2013

Brad Nunnally's "Users In The Mist"
Brad Nunnally's "Users In The Mist"

This session provides good rules of thumb that will help you with future field studies and prepare you for the types of situations you might find yourself in […]

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Design Innovation Readings

Watch Bjarke Ingels’ “Hedonistic sustainability” talk at TED

Bjarke Ingels' "Hedonistic sustainability"
Bjarke Ingels' "Hedonistic sustainability"

Bjarke Ingels’ architecture is luxurious, sustainable and community-driven. In this talk, he shows us his playful designs, from a factory chimney that blows smoke rings to a ski slope built atop a waste processing plant. Bjarke Ingels is principal of BIG, based in Copenhagen. An alumnus of Rem Koolhaas‘ OMA practice, Ingels takes a similar […]

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Talks & Workshops User Experience

Designing Interactions / Experiences: The Design of Experiences

Designing Interactions / Experiences: The Design of Experiences
Designing Interactions / Experiences: The Design of Experiences

This is the 5th (fifth) lecture of the “Designing Interactions / Experiences” module I’m teaching at Köln International School of Design of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, which I’m honored to give by invitation of Professor Philipp Heidkamp. In this lecture, we discuss the different design artifacts typically produced during the ideation stage […]

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Information Technology Trend Watching

Internet in Brazil: São Paulo on top 10 most ‘instagrammed’ cities in 2013

São Paulo is the fifth city more 'instagramada' in 2013, Rio is the 7th
São Paulo is the fifth city more 'instagramada' in 2013, Rio is the 7th

The city of São Paulo was the fifth city in the world in 2013 with more pictures and videos posted on social media network application Instagram, according to a list of cities and popular places disclosed by the application on recently […]

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Watch Jan Moorman’s “Measuring User Delight using the Kano Methodology” talk at Interaction’13 | IxDA Conference

Jan Moorman: Measuring User Delight using the Kano Methodology
Jan Moorman: Measuring User Delight using the Kano Methodology

Attendees will learn why and how this methodology can be harnessed in design strategy decisions. The Kano methodology was initially adopted by operations researchers, who added statistical rigor to the question pair results analysis. Product managers have leveraged aspects of the Kano approach in Quality Function Deployment (QFD). More recently, this methodology has been used by Agile teams and in market research […]

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Information Technology Trend Watching

Internet in Brazil: ranking top 5 of active Twitter users

Brazil ranks 5th in the world ranking of active users on twitter
Brazil ranks 5th in the world ranking of active users on twitter

Half of active Twitter users live in five countries, the United States, Japan, Indonesia, the UK and Brazil, according to research done by the website stats Statista […]

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Watch Paul Adams’ “How to Design Social Experiences” talk at Interaction’13 | IxDA Conference

Watch Paul Adams' "How to Design Social Experiences" talk at Interaction’13 | IxDA Conference
Watch Paul Adams' "How to Design Social Experiences" talk at Interaction’13 | IxDA Conference

The web is evolving, orienting around people rather than content. As a result, almost all UX professionals will increasingly need to design social experiences. Designing interactions between people is different from designing user experiences. For example there is often no clear task to design for, no set user goal, and no clear outcome. To complicate […]