Near Future Laboratory: emerging from visions with Nicholas Nova about devices and scenarios that seem intriguing - not so much products, but offering practices: prop making for a future world. Sketching practice, writing practice - expressing ideas through artifacts.
DIY hardware today is like the Web 10 years ago. Someday, "productive consumers" making their own objects
Nokia Design - clarifying and translating business opportunities through design.
Design relatively new. How to connect design directly to strategy? Fast prototyping answers those questions fast.
Need a toolchain for materializing ideas at the next level of refinement from just working to how it expresses itself in the world (see: Shapeways
Wish list
- refining sketching to add finish
- rich narrative and explication for documentation - including the failures
- 32 bit sketching with displays
- prototypers and sketchers at Nokia
