Search results for “human experience” Marc Mellone: a global study into mobility needs – and opportunities By Adam Tinworth The future of mobility is about much more than autonomous cars. A Fjord research project delved deep into the specific mobility needs of varying people worldwide. Eco Moliterno: Let digital fix the world, locally By Adam Tinworth Can local solutions fix global problems - Eco Moliterno thinks so, and he gave five disparate examples to the attendees of NEXT18. Andrew Keen: How to fix the future By Adam Tinworth Andrew Keen has a fix for digital's problems - and it starts 500 years ago. A liveblog of his talk at NEXT18. Ten insiders’ tips for your stay in Hamburg By Martin Recke It's NEXT week, and this means a lot of people flocking to Hamburg, some of them for the first time ever. An anonymous insider from our team shares ten of their tips. Meet the NEXT18 Designers: Studio C.A.R.E. By Juliane Hennig Rotterdam-based design studio Studio C.A.R.E. offers radical experiences in interior design — and are one of the designers behind NEXT18. We put them to the question… We need a Digital Fix, because we can’t work at machine speed By Adam Tinworth Computers enable real-time, instantaneous connection worldwide - and that's a huge boon. But the also operate at a relentless pace, that will crush us if we try to match it. After the smartphone? Ambient computing could be our next digital fix. By Adam Tinworth The smartphone isn’t going to die any time soon. What will die - and possibly sooner than you think - is the central role it plays in our digital life. And with it will die the idea that any device will play a central role in our digital existence. How will the end of smartphones look like? By Martin Recke The fourth cycle of personal computation will be dominated by strong platforms that can tie lots of very different devices together with software and services. The winner will be whoever provides the superior user experience. Can Innovation get us out of the current mess? By Martin Recke Do we need more innovation? Do we need less, or slower innovation? Or do we need other kinds of innovation? We let tech make us small. Elon Musk is helping us dream big again. By Adam Tinworth Once the talk of SXSW was new apps and social networks. Now, it's Elon Musk and rockets. The wheel of tech is turning towards the big tech again, and that's exciting… Can We Design for Wellbeing? By Pamela Pavliscak Remember not so long ago, when tech was supposed to make our lives better? While that still may be true, it's no longer the whole story. Happiness by Design means designing for contentment By Adam Tinworth Designing for happiness is a terrible, terrible idea. And all the serious thinkers who have written about the idea know it. Augmented modernity may be a way off – but we need to start preparing now By Adam Tinworth A world where the digital and the physical intermingle for a seamless augmented reality is coming – and we need to start thinking about the moral and legal implications now. Modernity and Reality are the Next Frontier By Martin Recke We already almost lost the difference between online and offline, or between digital and analogue. Reality itself could be next. In comparison, fake news is just a minor issue. 5 Key Trends for 2018 that could reshape your business By David Mattin Guest author Dave Mattin shared five insights into 2018 that could make a massive difference to your business - if you can act on them. NEXT17 Summary #1: Where digital went wrong By Adam Tinworth For two days in September, the digital world met in Hamburg and a single question was on our lips: where did we go wrong? Here are the answers we found… NEXT17 in Tweets #2: Awesome AI, Virtuous Voice and Brilliant Blockchain By Adam Tinworth As NEXT17's Day One continue, we explored the ubiquity of AI, the role of voice and the potential of blockchain. Here's how attendees reacted… A brief history of conversation (and what we can learn from it) By Adam Tinworth Conversation keeps evolving, as we invent new devices. And mobiles are changing it ever further. But what will happen as voice interfaces kick in? VR/AR/MxR: Time for a reality check? By Adam Tinworth Changed reality, be it augmented or virtual is hot stuff right now. But is it just hype? Or could there be a dark side to it? A NEXT17 panel explored the issues… Tricia Wang: Why corporate “innovation” doesn’t work — and how to fix it. By Adam Tinworth Companies aren’t bad at innovation; they’re bad at making good decisions about that innovation. Tricia Wang explains how to make better decisions. Digital Sucks. But, right now, AIs are helping us making it better By Adam Tinworth In films, AIs are homicidal machines come to kill us. In reality, they're tireless assistants solving the problems we don't have time for… Uber’s crisis: digital growing pains laid bare By Adam Tinworth Uber has had a rough month, losing its CEO and a board member. But these growing pains might be a necessary part of making a disruptive startup into a sustainable business. Digital Sucks! By Martin Recke Can we be honest? Digital sucks … greatly! There is a nagging feeling that a lot of all digital stuff somehow goes terribly wrong. Oftentimes, digital products simply don’t live up to their promises, leaving users in a kind of limbo between overpromise and underdelivery. prev 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 next