Sebastian Deterding: Designing for the Good Life

By Adam Tinworth

We've built fantastic tools for productivity and work - and yet, we're more stressed and tired than ever. Could we be fetishising productivity, and do we need to design for something higher?

Samuel West: learning from innovation failure

By Adam Tinworth

We fail at failure. Failure is where most innovation happens, and we miss it because we are afraid to admit to failure, and afraid to learn from it. Samuel West celebrates failure.

James Williams: Distraction by design and the attention moral crisis

By Adam Tinworth

Attention is our most precious resource - and it’s being sucked away from us. We need a Freedom of Attention to match Freedom of Speech - says James Williams.

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?

Ame Elliott: No, Thank you! User Experience Design for Privacy

By Adam Tinworth

Privacy is a choice - but it’s one we can design for. Even the simplest elements can shape people’s behaviour for the better, says Ame Elliott.

Lily Kollé: How minimalism will improve your design process

By Adam Tinworth

Design minimalism is more than a lifestyle choice, it’s putting a ruthless focus on the ideal path to let the user achieve what they want. And that isn’t always the simplest.

David Li: Smart hardware from the street

By Adam Tinworth

Innovation in Shenzhen looks nothing like innovation in the rest of the world. And that’s why Shenzhen dominates the world of digital devices.

Shermin Voshmgir: Blockchain and the future of the internet

By Adam Tinworth

The Blockchain doesn’t just enable bitcoin – it could change the way we use the web. But we have to act fast.

Nandini Stocker: Bridging the Gap to the SciFi promise of voice

By Adam Tinworth

Why do we care about conversational interfaces? And why could they change everything about your brand? Google's Nandini Stocker explains…

NEXT16: What we can learn from China

By Adam Tinworth

Panel with Patrick Boos (DGroup), William Bao Bean (SOSV & Chinaccelerator) and Anna Kostense

#NEXT16 begins: Matthias Schrader & Volker Martens

By Adam Tinworth

Liveblog: Matthias Schrader & Volker Martens welcome us to #NEXT16

[Liveblog] Robert Overweg builds virtual from digitised reality

By Adam Tinworth

As we progressively digitise the world around us, virtual reality will become more compelling. Robert Overweg argues that it might beat out reality - in some situations.

[Liveblog] Sami Niemelä on how connecting thing changes them

By Adam Tinworth

The digital is moving faster than the physical can keep pace with. What interesting things can we do in the gap between the two?

[Liveblog] Marcel Schouwenaar on a responsible Internet of Things

By Adam Tinworth

There is no cloud. It's just your stuff on someone else's computer. And that means we need to think privacy with the IoT.

[Liveblog] Scott Smith: when your data ghost shops for you

By Adam Tinworth

The future of retail is invisible. Stores are fading away, and our purchases are becoming involuntary - and predictive.

[Liveblog] Laurent Haug on the ongoing reinvention of shopping

By Adam Tinworth

The line between offline and online shopping is blurring completely. And technology - and the return of humans - will change the retail experience even more.

Brad Templeton: Changing the world with robocars

By Adam Tinworth

There are autonomous cars on the streets of some cities already. As they become a reality, how does this change the way we live? The NEXT14 opening day keynote.

Preparing for the New Normal (Opening Session)

By Adam Tinworth

Talks from Nils Wollny and Brigitte Zypries explore the future of culture - and the German economy.