The Future of Screen Technology. Very cool concept demonstrating user interface design for the year 2014.
/via: @ghensel
This is Mona
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.
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.
Via: NPR (Full article)
Attention US travellers! GateGuru aims to help you
I just discovered this new iPhone app, GateGuru. It provides listings and user-generated reviews of places to eat at 85 US airports, with plans to expand worldwide.
What to Take Away From CES
- There Is No Such Thing as a Netbook
- Touch Rules
- Your Phone, Your Everything
- Any Inanimate Object Can Be a Computer
- Real Wireless = Real Freedom
(via @mmilan)
The future is co-created
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.
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