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  • My Heart is in The Work- Keynote by Jon Kolko

    Do you know what type of behaviour you or your company want to provoke? And is that aligned with how people actually want to live their lives? Empathy is the key to understanding and changing behavior.

  • The most popular stuff from 2012 at ConeTrees

    I wish you, my dear readers, a wonderful 2013. Here is what I wrote about and posted in 2012 which was the most popular with you all. The Difference Between a Heuristic Evaluation and an Expert Review Future Healthcare Concepts When Introducing UCD in an Organinzation, Technical Capability is Only Half the Story Karen McGrane…

  • The Asian Banker Excellence in Retail Financial Services Awards 2013- Best Internet Banking Initiative- Consumer Banking: Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

    The Asian banker runs the most prestigious awards programme in the industry covering the full spectrum of topics and areas that constitute the financial services. At Possible, I lead the project as UX lead planning, coordinating and executing user research and information architecture, content strategy and interaction design activities to create a unified Information architecture…

  • RIP Bill Boddgride of IDEO (1943-2012)

    I am saddened to say that Bill Moggridge, co-founder of IDEO, designer of the first laptop, author of the book ‘Designing Interactions‘, important role player in promoting the human-centered approach in design passed away last month on September 8, 2012. May his soul rest in peace.

  • Runne(a)r phones- if you run, you need one (earphone mounted rotary knob volume control)

    Summary This is a product idea I have submitted on Quirky targeted at runners. Changing the music volume (because of traffic, changing environmental noise) while running is always a hassle. Well, not any more, Runne(a)rphone’s here. Vote here: http://www.quirky.com/ideations/224692 (if you like it, and tell your friends about it too) The Problem This product is…

  • Karen McGrane on Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content

    This is a fantastic presentation on NPR’s COPE concept- create once, publish everywhere. Karen asks the right questions- why are we still letting content authors plan for where their content will live on a web page? Why do we waste time and money creating and recreating content instead of planning for content reuse? As our…

  • The best of Cone Trees for 2011

    2011 has ended and has been a rather good year for me. I know I have not been writing this year, but work has kept me very occupied, and happy. I left Delhi and moved to Singapore early in the year to join PebbleRoad and have since then had a great time working on a…

  • Videos from UX Week 2011

    You can watch most of the videos from UX 2011 which took place in San Francisco from August 23 to 26, 2011. UX Week 2011 was organised by Adaptive Path. Chris van der Walt & P.J. Onori of HunchWorks on Applying Human-centric Design to Complex Global Problems Mark Trammell & Jesse James Garrett on Creating…

  • Rajat Paharia on Influencing User Behaviour through Game Dynamics

    Rajat talks about how designers can address fundamental human needs and desires (like status, achievement, reward, competition, self-expression) to make experiences both compelling and satisfying. He talks about how game designers have known for years on how to incentivise and motivate players by addressing these needs through the use of mechanics like points, levels, leaderboards,…

  • A Social Media ROI Examples Video Infographic

    If you need to get your stakeholders thinking about taking their first step (or their next step- from unplanned to get thinking and developing a strategy) in social media, then you will find this video helpful in collecting examples and data points that show how organizations have benefited from social media. Being a video infographic,…