What can the future do for you?
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Fabio Sergio, Design and User experience strategist and creative director at frog design, focuses his presentation on Design Thinking and its role in creating habitable and desirable futures. He shows various examples to explain how people-centred design goes beyond usage or consumption and should be about culture and seeing people how people react to things within their own culture.
The talks (sorry in french) from last week are online on klewel.ch:
http://www.klewel.ch/technoark2008.php
http://www.klewel.ch/technoark2008light.php
http://www.klewel.ch/technoark2008texte.php
[it includes videos, slide synchronisation, slide search mechanism.]