Welcome. As the title of this blog suggests, I am Mona. I am a multi-disciplinary strategist with a passion for digital strategy and experience design. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more about me.
Socializing will take on completely new dimensions when we can see everything public about a person right as we are talking with them. Think dating is difficult today? Imagine the hoops we’ll have to jump through when everyone in the bar can see your complete dating history the minute you walk into the room.
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As we near a closing chapter that is 2009, I’d like to take a different approach to discussing the series of past events and a look into the year ahead. This time, I’d like to discuss the future from a holistic standpoint. In accumulation of emerging trends and observations over the course of the near past and current year through futurists, media, technology designers and the like, there is a vision that is prevalent to the notion of openness and co-creation.
More than ever humans are becoming increasingly empowered to shaping the way of the future. Empowered folk are using tools of design to think and to make. They are moving the future agenda forward by embracing divergent experiences. With this, the future no longer looks authoritative, but more democratic and chaotic. Walk into a design studio these days and you will find a dissolve of specialists and an emergence of generalists that are contributing to a messy, but value driven future. Technology is looking to be advanced in a very atypical, but relevant way. What this means is that it will incorporate an important ingredient, emotion.
In my previous post, A Nokia future beyond Connecting People, we see evidence of such technology. Ubi comp in general (ubiquitous computing) embraces the idea of technology becoming co-created, based on a humanistic and emotionally centered approach.
What’s more important is for companies who are fundamentally interested in providing value to their patrons to recognize this shift in the way our future is shaped. Value, or more importantly, sustainable value is realized when disseminated through channels and/or technology that enable the customer to co-author the story.
