Solitude is usually something perceived as a bad thing. Our whole society is built in order to fill these voids where you are alone with yourself. Solitude however is incredibly valuable because it allows you face yourself, and it’s also where creativity thrives.
A day of positive talks about the increased complexity of today’s world and the need to adapt our approaches to keep up in a balanced and healthy way with the new challenges we face everyday.
Norman and Verganti published a very interesting paper about the meaning of innovation and its two dimension: technology and meaning innovation. This is a very interesting approach and method to understand a bit better the innovation landscape. Also, the role of user centered design and user research is discussed in relation to it.
In my experience the discussions around the difference between art and design are very interesting from an intellectual standpoint but they are also completely unable to find an answer to that very question. However, while not definitive, there’s one interesting concept from psychology that might give some interesting insight: essentialism.
Looking back at the history of agile and incremental and iterative development shows a lot of interesting points and also one very interesting truth about waterfall.
It’s interesting to see how even successful startups and companies that tried to replace business cards had success… but only in everything that’s extra. The business card are going to stay. Unless… here’s how.
The debate on Responsive, Device Experience and all the possible variations is often very detailed and rich from a technical perspective, but it’s often missing the most important point.
