Tag: design
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Design is evolving—and designers need to evolve with it.
Below is a guest post from Nathan Shedroff ‘While designers have evolved over the last 25 years to be advocates for the audience/customer, we now need to be advocates for the rest of everyone else, democracy, society, and the planet, itself.“ I was taught design in a world and a time where the word primarily…
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On the Human Tech podcast: A conversation with Nathan Shedroff
In this episode we talk to Nathan Shedroff about the culture of user experience, sustainable design, and more. Nathan is an interaction designer, and a teacher at the California College of the Arts. You can reach Nathan by going to his website: https://nathan.com/ And check out the guest article by Nathan on how design is…
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Bringing Emotional Intelligence To Machines: An Interview With Pamela Pavliscak
Do we know enough about human emotions to start building them into our technology? Isn’t human emotion the one thing that differentiates us from machines? What does it mean to build emotional artificial intelligence? These are some of the questions we discuss with Pamela in this episode of the Human Tech podcast. Pamela’s upcoming book…
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Design In Sweden
In this podcast episode we talk with Johan Berndtsson about design and business in Sweden. Johan invites listeners to submit suggestions for speakers for his next “From Business To Buttons Conference” and also invites people to come do design work in Sweden. Throughout the podcast we refer to videos, give web addesses and so on.…
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Photography and Design: James Chudley Is Our Guest On HumanTech Podcast
How much do you think about photography in the design of websites and digital marketing? James Chudley joins us on this podcast episode to talk about photography, design, and lots more. And here are some links for things we talk about: James has a great ebook :Usability of web photos book – http://amzn.to/2nIyOt5 And he has…
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Do We Know What We Are Doing With The Internet Of Things?
This is our first episode we recorded for the HumanTech podcast. It’s about the confusion we seem to have about how to design products that communicate on their own — the internet of things. HumanTech is a podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology. Your hosts Guthrie and Dr. Susan Weinschenk explore how behavioral…
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How To Create A Habit Forming Product — Guest Nir Eyal
For this HumanTech podcast episode, Nir Eyal joins us for a conversation about how can you develop products that people can’t stop using. Nir takes the research on classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and habits and rolls it all together and then applies the research to the design of software and apps. Listen to the podcast and then for…
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Quick Review of the Business To Buttons Conference
In Stockholm Susan was the opening speaker for the 2016 Business To Buttons Conference and Al Gore was the closing speaker! We talk about the interesting people we met and the equally interesting talks we heard and saw at the conference. HumanTech is a podcast that explores the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology.…
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Why Lean UX Might Just Rock Your World
I was standing at the front of a training room at about 2 pm a week ago in Chicago. The room was on the 5th floor of a building in downtown Chicago. It wasn’t a very inspiring room. The windows looked out at another tall office building, so there was no natural light in the…
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The 4 Magic Questions To Ask Before You Design Anything
I’ll go so far as to say that if you don’t know the answers to these four questions before you design, then your design will be, at best, mediocre, and possibly a disaster. Designing anything — websites, software, apps, TV ads, physical spaces, documents – is tough. It takes art and science. Most design principles…
