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Designing for new forms of governance
From Putting People First

Designing for new forms of governance

ToNite project presented at Milan conference on design-led approaches to renewing public management and governance

A Balanced Place: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2021
From Putting People First

A Balanced Place: IKEA’s Life at Home Report 2021

Global research released by IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) reveals the vital role that home has played in meeting people’s mental wellbeing needs during the pandemic...

Misinformation is a pandemic that doesn’t have a vaccine
From Putting People First

Misinformation is a pandemic that doesn’t have a vaccine

Conspiracy theories and misinformation about QAnon, COVID-19 and 2020 election fraud took a deadly turn in 2021. As bad as things were last year, experts worry...

An ethnographic study of Eindhoven’s Smart City project
From Putting People First

An ethnographic study of Eindhoven’s Smart City project

This article explore the promises of security that are embedded in the smart city technologies and algorithms and their potential implications for creating social...

Systemic design toolkit
From Putting People First

Systemic design toolkit

Free to download systemic design toolkit

UK Design Council report on systemic design
From Putting People First

UK Design Council report on systemic design

"System-Shifting Design: An Evolving Practice Explored" explores what ‘next practice’ around systemic design looks like, and how the design system itself might...

UX Theatre, or the rise of UX design without users
From Putting People First

UX Theatre, or the rise of UX design without users

UX Theatre is "the application of any sort of design methodology without including a single user in the process, or including users but merely for show."

An anthropologist on Facebook’s new “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses
From Putting People First

An anthropologist on Facebook’s new “Ray-Ban Stories” glasses

With this product, writes anthropologist Sally Applin in MIT's Technology Review, "Facebook is claiming the face as real estate for its own technology."

People Going Full Circle – Free Experientia report
From Putting People First

People Going Full Circle – Free Experientia report

Download free Experientia report on the role of consumer behavior in making food purchasing and product packaging more sustainable.

Le persone che chiudono il cerchio – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia
From Putting People First

Le persone che chiudono il cerchio – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia

Rapporto gratuito di Experientia sul ruolo del comportamento dei consumatori nel rendere più sostenibile l’acquisto degli alimenti e il packaging dei prodotti.

Digital for Care – Free Experientia report
From Putting People First

Digital for Care – Free Experientia report

Download free Experientia report on key trends and design challenges in home and remote care when patient and caregivers use online platforms and on-body health...

Digital for Care – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia
From Putting People First

Digital for Care – Rapporto gratuito di Experientia

Rapporto gratuito su tendenze chiave e sfide di design nell'assistenza a domicilio e a distanza quando il paziente e i caregiver usano piattaforme online e dispositivi...

Public Deliberation on Policies has Many Advantages
From Putting People First

Public Deliberation on Policies has Many Advantages

Research shows public deliberation can change participants’ opinions when it comes to public policy. Citizens who participate in mini-publics often listen to the...

The future of marketing lies in immersive research
From Putting People First

The future of marketing lies in immersive research

It is critical to marry conventional data analytics with a deeper understanding of audience psychology by observing everyday human behavior.

[Book] A City Is Not a Computer
From Putting People First

[Book] A City Is Not a Computer

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers.

COVID-19’s psychological burden is associated with antisystemic attitudes and political violence
From Putting People First

COVID-19’s psychological burden is associated with antisystemic attitudes and political violence

Research in US, Denmark, Hungary and Italy suggests that the ongoing pandemic places many countries at an increased risk of political unrest. The violence that...

Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy
From Putting People First

Fake news and conspiracy theories as an evolutionary strategy

Danish social scientist Michael Bang Petersen illuminates the evolutionary foundations and social processes involved in the spread of outright falsehoods.

The drive for privacy and the difficulty of achieving it in the digital age
From Putting People First

The drive for privacy and the difficulty of achieving it in the digital age

People care and act to manage their privacy, but face steep psychological and economic hurdles that make not just desired, but also desirable privacy nearly unattainable...

Videos online of “Humanizing technology through design” conference
From Putting People First

Videos online of “Humanizing technology through design” conference

Curated by Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels and Sara Fortunati, director of the Torino Circle of Design, the conference dealt with the best international...

The Incompatibility of Nudge and Co-Design as Tools for Policymaking
From Putting People First

The Incompatibility of Nudge and Co-Design as Tools for Policymaking

The use of nudge theory to inform policy interventions in response to COVID-19 has re-opened debates over the politically paternalistic nature of governing by ‘nudges’...
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