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Lessons from Ideation: Where Does User Involvement Lead Us?
April 1, 2014 Editor 0
Firms are increasingly involving users in new product development (NPD). Their product users frequently provide solution information, such as new product ideas. However, these users are often considered a homogeneous group of ordinary users; their individual abilities and the specific input they provide for NPD are not yet well understood. The goal of this paper […]
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Wearing the future
March 29, 2014 Editor 0
In an interview at SXSW, Google’s Sundar Pichai said something about wearables that I’ve been waiting to hear. Wearables aren’t about Google Glass; they aren’t about smart watches; they’re much, much more, and these technologies are only scratching the surface. I’ve tweaked Apple a couple of times for their inability to deliver a watch, despite years of […]
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Technology that gets under your skin
March 29, 2014 Editor 0
Editor’s note: we’re running a series of five excerpts from our forthcoming book Designing for Emerging Technologies, a compilation of works by industry experts in areas of user experience design related to genomics, robotics, the Internet of Things, and the Industrial Internet of Things. In this excerpt, author Andy Goodman, group director at Fjord Madrid, […]
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The Best “Management Lessons” Story You’ll Ever Read
February 2, 2014 Editor 0
A Roll of the Polyhedral Dice Everything I Need to Know About Management I Learned from Playing Dungeons and Dragons Quartz Such as: Often, the best candidate for a given job isn’t the person who’s most skilled at fulfilling its primary requirement, but instead is a more well-rounded individual, a lesson learned from character creation […]
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Google launches Project Link: A new way to bring faster, more reliable Internet access to Uganda
November 24, 2013 Editor 0
Just when the local carriers are hiking data their data rates, global search giant Google has stepped in with an even more ambitious idea – Project Link — that will bring faster, more reliable internet to the residents of Kampala city in Uganda. Announced yesterday on its Google Africa blog, project Link is ; an […]
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Register Now for ICTD 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa
October 29, 2013 Editor 0
The continued growth of the ICT4D field and surrounding community has led to many participants organising and coordinating their efforts in order to learn and engage with each other. This has been seen through the numerous mailing lists, discussion forums, and meet-ups that have sprung up. The academic community has joined this drive in one […]
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