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• Digital Money

  Money as a social and cultural driver is more and more a relevant subject this days.
  About this matter an interesting workshop is going to happen in University of California, Irvine September 18 and 19, 2008 on the subject Everyday digital money:
  Rather than replacing cash and coin, or arriving at one new general-purpose form of money, […]

  Posted on Nov 03.08 to interaction, mobile, products, ubiquitous computing, technology, public space, future, innovation, presence, culture   

• Open studio

  Younghee Jung is an antropologist working for Nokia in a team that works on exploratory design research focusing on personal and mobile aspect of technology. Their approach is to learn from people so to inspire design. Also Interesting in their approach is the concept of the open studio more in a sense of a design […]

  Posted on Feb 26.08 to interaction, design process, technology, social, methods, exploration, strategy, future, innovation, lead users   

• Paper sound prototype

  Paper prototype, originally uploaded by dpereira.

  This picture shows Madushani’s first protoype during a session of role playing. The paper tags serve has objects to be used on the circular area so to produce a sound specific to a tag and its position. Andy was testing the initial concepts by using the system and its rules. […]

  Posted on Feb 13.08 to Uncategorized, interaction, products, design process, prototype, methods, ludic, exploration, low fidelity, physical computing, future, paper, role playing, sound   

• Toolkit in action 2

  Toolkit in action 2, originally uploaded by dpereira.

  Last week i tried my first prototyping toolkit for the lead user innovation project. The toolkit was a mixture of transformable materials and a service storyboard template.

  Posted on Feb 13.08 to Uncategorized, interaction, service design, design process, prototype, methods, exploration, low fidelity, future, innovation, lead users   

• Back to the future: design your own revolution

  Charles Leadbeater author of WE THINK writes in 2006 an end to end article about user lead innovation.
  What is at stake here is something fundamental to the way we see innovation, design and creativity and the way we organise our economy around them. We are moving from an era of mass production to one of […]

  Posted on Jan 21.08 to Uncategorized, products, design process, methods, exploration, future, innovation, lead users   

• Nokia: a glimpse of the next episode

  Nokia released a “study entitled ‘A Glimpse of the Next Episode‘, carried out by The Future Laboratory, interviewed trend-setting consumers from 17 countries about their digital behaviors and lifestyles signposting emerging entertainment trends. Combining views from industry leading figures with Nokia’s own research from its 900 million consumers around the world, Nokia has constructed a […]

  Posted on Jan 14.08 to mobile, products, social media, technology, social, future   

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