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From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit
From Putting People First

From nudge to sludge: a book, and now an academy and an audit

Sludge is friction through unnecessary red tape. Cass R. Sunstein wrote a book about it and the OECD is currently exploring the contribution that behavioural science...

[Book] Death Glitch
From Putting People First

[Book] Death Glitch

Technology scholar Tamara Kneese examines what happens to our digital belongings when we die, and argues that tech companies need to improve how they deal with...

Using psychology to bolster cybersecurity
From Putting People First

Using psychology to bolster cybersecurity

In an article for Communications of the ACM, David Geer explains how the U.S. Defense Department uses cyberpsychology to get into the minds of attackers to better...

Why do consumers purchase bottled water?
From Putting People First

Why do consumers purchase bottled water?

Fast Company published today an excerpt of the new book Unbottled by Daniel Jaffee in which he highlights the five factors why consumers purchase bottled water,...

Digital border governance: a human rights based approach
From Putting People First

Digital border governance: a human rights based approach

This collaborative study, conducted by the UN Human Rights Office and the University of Essex, analyses the human rights implications of specific border technologies...

[Report] How green is household behaviour?
From Putting People First

[Report] How green is household behaviour?

How Green is Household Behaviour? presents an overview of results from the 2022 OECD Survey on Environmental Policies and Individual Behaviour Change. The survey...

UX needs a sense of urgency about AI
From Putting People First

UX needs a sense of urgency about AI

"UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant", writes Jakob Nielsen in his blog UX Tigers, particularly with current AI-driven tools...

[Book] Sustainable Innovation
From Putting People First

[Book] Sustainable Innovation

This book by Experientia president Michele Visciola puts forward a new paradigm to understand and implement Sustainable Innovation (SI). Innovation without sustainability...

[Book] Think Like a UX Researcher
From Putting People First

[Book] Think Like a UX Researcher

In this newly revised Second Edition, you'll find six new essays that look at how UX research methods have changed in the last few years, why remote methods should...

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars
From Putting People First

People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars

For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, with most of the ire directed toward...

GPT detectors biased against non-native English writers
From Putting People First

GPT detectors biased against non-native English writers

If you're a non-native English writer, you should know GPT detectors are biased against you.

[Book] Thinking with Your Hands
From Putting People First

[Book] Thinking with Your Hands

In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow argues that gesture is vital to how we think, learn, and communicate.

The future of urban AI
From Putting People First

The future of urban AI

10 conversations by Urban AI, a Paris based think tank, with worldwide experts to explore the future of urban artificial intelligence

[Book] Imagining AI
From Putting People First

[Book] Imagining AI

The book sheds new light on some of the most important themes in AI ethics, from the differences between Chinese and American visions of AI, to digital neo-colonialism...

Ageing with smartphones
From Putting People First

Ageing with smartphones

Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland, Urban Italy, Urban Brazil, Urban Chile, Urban China and Uganda: six free open access books as part of the five year "Anthropology...

[Book] Attention Span
From Putting People First

[Book] Attention Span

While the concept of “flow” has previously been considered the ideal state of focus, Dr. Mark offers a new framework to help explain how our brains function in...

[Book] Interfaces and Us
From Putting People First

[Book] Interfaces and Us

When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and predict everything from love to geopolitical conflicts, our own behaviour and choices...

The problem with cashless payments
From Putting People First

The problem with cashless payments

Certain types of means of payment now seem indispensable for full participation in socioeconomic activity, yet they’re not necessarily available to everyone.

New Reuters Institute Report on distrust in the news by disadvantaged communities
From Putting People First

New Reuters Institute Report on distrust in the news by disadvantaged communities

Why do disadvantaged communities distrust the news? And what can newsrooms do about it? These are the questions at the heart of a new report by the Reuters Institute...

[Book] The Smartness Mandate
From Putting People First

[Book] The Smartness Mandate

What exactly is “smartness,” and how and why has it come to be not only a desirable goal, but something that must be implemented everywhere?
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