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NEXT Conference to collaborate with House of Beautiful Business

By Ina Feistritzer

We have been fans of the House of Beautiful Business from Day 1. In 2023, the NEXT Conf will work together with the House Team for the first time.
NEXT23: What to expect

By Adam Tinworth

NEXT is back, getting physical in Hamburg. Here’s what to expect when you join us in September.
Becoming cyborg

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

Or what if we told you that you are one already?
Apple didn’t launch a headset: it released a spatial computing platform

By Adam Tinworth

Apple Vision Pro, the first headset from the company, isn’t a Metaverse device. It’s Apple’s first true spatial computing product.
Generative AI and the mystery of consciousness

By Adam Tinworth

The rapid advances in AI and large language models (LLMs) are raising questions about sentience and consciousness we can’t yet answer.
The office of the future won’t arrive anytime soon

By Martin Recke

We still don’t know what the office of the future will look like. But thanks to AI and the permacrisis, it will be leaner than before.
Smart Earth: How our planet gets digital

By Martin Recke

Digitising the planet can help mitigate some of the most pressing challenges, such as climate change. But it also raises some familiar questions.
NEXT23 theme: Let’s get physical

By Martin Recke

The digital revolution is entering a new phase. It will lead to a fusion of digital and physical, and a rewrite of how the world works.
Alexander Baumgardt: using design systems to create better products faster

By Adam Tinworth

What are design systems, and how can they change how you think about digital product design? Alexander Baumgardt explains their future.
AI and the future of work

By Martin Recke

AI is going to change how we work. It will automate white-collar work. And we’ll see AI-first start-ups creating new markets.
Embarking on a corporate food odyssey

By Madeline Jones, Elliot White & Diego Carannante

Consumers want to eat more sustainably, but they lack the knowledge to do so. New research shows that grocers could be a catalyst of change.
The Brain Interface: the final evolution of UI?

By Adam Tinworth

Is the brain the final frontier of user interfaces? How far are we away from controlling our device with our thoughts?
Challenges with design systems – In conversation with Alexander Baumgardt

Challenges with design systems – Introducing the Next-Level Design Revolution! Prepare to be amazed as Alexander Baumgardt, the design-centric guru,…
Nick Law: embracing a new age of digital creativity

By Adam Tinworth

Creativity is a core skill to navigate digital change — and yet is too often misunderstood. As Nick Law explains, creativity is deeply rooted in a medium, and great leaders understand that.
Will AI eat software?

By Martin Recke

Software used to be expensive, but thanks to AI, it may soon be cheap. Will software developers lose their jobs?
What we can see now is the first percent of what is coming

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

An interview with Merantix Founder and AI Expert Adrian Locher.
Long-term thinking is our best weapon against the permacrisis

By Adam Tinworth

In the grip of a permacrisis, it’s easy to be seduced by short-term thinking. We need to resist its lure, and fix our eyes again on the long-term horizon.
How to be creative with Nick Law

What is deep simplicity and why do we need it? We discussed this with Nick Law in our latest episode of the NEXT–SHOW.
Yes, here is yet another article on AI

By Oskar Trautmann, Wilhelm Rinke

Sure, you don’t need to read yet another article on AI. But this one might just surprise you…
Digital’s gift: a chance to rethink our physical lives

By Adam Tinworth

A mix of digital, pandemic and energy trends are forcing a rethink of our urban infrastructure. Can we remake the physical in the face of the climate crisis?
Kübra Gümüşay: perspectives on utopias

By Adam Tinworth

Can we create new, more useful visions of the future by opening ourselves to new perspectives? Kübra Gümüşay thinks so — and explains how we can do it.
Kübra Gümüşay about how language shapes us and her current study about real utopias

Tune in and enjoy this journey to the land of language, real utopias and a short story about how to be humble.
The Five Horsemen of the Permacrisis

By Adam Tinworth

Stability is a distant dream, as the 2020s turn into a decade of permacrisis. Here are the biggest factors driving it.
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