Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Category Scenarios
Has futurism failed? [The Wilson Quarterly]
European Futurists Conference presentations
Whirlpool’s in.home project
The future of the internet [Red Herring]
Alarm over shopping radio tags [BBC]
Smart Cities 2020 [Metropolis Magazine]
The surveillance society
Forbes special report on communicating
What you’ll wear in 10 years [Wired Magazine | Forbes]
Nature Magazine on the future of computing
The future of television [The Guardian]
Wi-fi set to re-wire social rules [BBC]
Once the net becomes ubiquitous like power and water, it had the potential to be “transformative”. The divide that separates people from their online lives will utterly disappear. Instead of leaving behind all those net-based friends and activities when you…
You can’t understand the future without demographics
Futurist Andrew Zolli, founder of Z + Partners, reflects in a Fast Company feature on the future demographics of society. The composition of a society–whether its citizens are old or young, prosperous or declining, rural or urban–shapes every aspect of…
The Persona Lifecycle: a field guide for interaction designers
The Persona Lifecycle, First Edition : Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design The Persona Lifecycle (Amazon – Elsevier) addresses the “how” of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe…
Interactive user experiences with mobiles
LocaModa is a company that creates proprietary interactive networks that extend the power of the web to the steet helping consumers to opt-in and connect to brands. The have launched two services: StreetSurfer and StreetMessenger. StreetSurfer is a mobile-enabled interactive…
Future scenarios for the $100 laptop
In a thoughtful article in the New York Times, Hal R. Varian, professor of business, economics and information management at the University of California, Berkeley, explores the potential business models that could be built around cheap laptops in developing countries.…
An exponentially expanding future from exponentially shrinking technology
Ray Kurzweill, author of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology and featured before in this blog (link and link), was recently a guest speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he discussed how our lives might look…
Design and usability for emerging telephony
During the recent O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference (January 24-26, San Francisco), Roberto Tagliabue, digital experience creative director of Nike TechLab , B.J. Fogg, a researcher at Stanford University and author of the book “Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What…
Swisscom presents ICT usage vision for 2015
Swisscom’s Vision 2015 highlights the most probable future with respect to developments and usage of ICT. Taking into consideration both technological and societal trends, Swisscom developed a number of storylines covering different aspects of the every-day life in order to…