These slides were from a talk summarizing Alex Soojung-Kim Pang's (askpang) awesome paper "Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline" for a Futures Studies class at the University of Houston.
Hi Hi is a box of activities that aim to promote behavior that leads to feelings of happiness. The Hi Hi box is for playing, sharing, and reflection, all of will guide the user to a feelings of happiness.
Urban populations have been growing at an unprecedented rate around the world and there is growing concern that building-related environmental impacts also continue to rise. This has prompted a range of stakeholders in the built environment to make commitments to create and implement more sustainable building and construction solutions. Our research question thus mines this untapped potential: How might we enable widespread participation by actors in the built environment to participate in the transition toward a more circular economy? Our synthesis map focuses on the prosperous Canadian commercial building sector, and aims to empower actors within this industry to discover their unique role.
Hi Hi is a box of activities that aim to promote behavior that leads to feelings of happiness. The Hi Hi box is for playing, sharing, and reflection, all of will guide the user to a feelings of happiness.
Urban populations have been growing at an unprecedented rate around the world and there is growing concern that building-related environmental impacts also continue to rise. This has prompted a range of stakeholders in the built environment to make commitments to create and implement more sustainable building and construction solutions. Our research question thus mines this untapped potential: How might we enable widespread participation by actors in the built environment to participate in the transition toward a more circular economy? Our synthesis map focuses on the prosperous Canadian commercial building sector, and aims to empower actors within this industry to discover their unique role.
Whitney Quesenbery, Taapsi Ramchandani, Maggie Ollove
UXPA and IDXA NYC World Usability Day November 9, 2017
Of course we want to be inclusive...but where to start? There’s accessibility, language, digital inclusion, global, cultural, and socio-economic differences. Come learn how to broaden your research to include more voices in the people you meet and the stories you collect. And how to use those stories in a conscious act of innovation.
We’ll share some of our best research tips, introduce you to some of the people we’ve met, and tell you the stories that changed our product. Then, you’ll explore ideas for how to make your own work more inclusive. Hopefully, you will leave inspired to be an inclusion superhero and delight everyone who uses your products.
What you will learn:
- Ways to think about inclusion
- Ideas for increasing the diversity of your research participants
- Examples of how insights from inclusive research can expand and improve your product vision
Staging systems to feel round the corners of Transition DesignJabe Bloom
The challenges our societies face, such as climate change, require radical innovation (Proactionary Principle [Fuller]). But the complexity of our societies also demand that we be more attentive to the consequences of those innovations (Precautionary Principle). The challenges we face are, after all, the result of previously unanticipated consequences. It is by definition not possible to anticipate ‘black swans,’ but we should perhaps expect more than to cultivate an anti-fragility that merely awaits shocks [Talib]. How then to develop rich senses of the consequences of innovations designed to respond to phenomena like climate change?
We call this capacity ‘seeing around corners,’ since the aim is not merely to build a system model that can predict an end state, but instead to sense what is possible and likely once at the position of that end-state. An analogy would be the ability to forsee texting-while-driving whilst designing the user experience of a cell phone.
Theoretically, the point would be that designers have privileged access to niche temporarily materialized potential futures, as such they need to be equipped to not only make effective decisions about quality of life, but also be aware of the moral and ethical consequences of instantiating these futures in the wider world.
As an aside, we are interested in ‘feeling around corners’ in reaction to an increasing tendency in commercial systems design to give up on larger-scale forethought and instead trust in Lean Emergence. We wish to preserve the Situatedness that comes from these ways of working (that is a corrective to temptations to ‘See like a State’ Planning), but nevertheless see the need for more forceful directedness, especially when negotiating societal challenges requiring strong, voluntary actions.
Describing the Elephant: UX Cambridge 2014Eric Reiss
My keynote from UX Cambridge 2014. My personal review of some of the problems we face communicating the value of user experience community today, a couple of practical, actionable tools, and suggestions as to how we can strengthen our community.
My (annotated) closing plenary from UX Camp Europe 2015.
Most UX professionals these days are concerned with learning to use the tools of our trade. Yet, these tools have been around for decades – if not centuries – with new names given with each passing generation. But to truly get the most out of these tools (from personas to customer-journey maps), it sometimes helps to step back and reflect on what we are actually trying to achieve.
I would like to share some of the things I have learned over the years. Hopefully, my experiences can help you bring the practice of UX to a higher level, help your clients and colleagues understand why UX is important, and help you actually prove the value of your work.
Here are the questions I have been asking myself for almost four decades. Are YOU asking yourself these questions? If not, perhaps it is time to start.
Why are products and companies doomed without a focus on UX?
When is a company ready to embrace UX?
Who are the people that make good UX designers?
What are the ingredients of UX?
How do we measure the results of our UX efforts?
Mapping the Future of Locative Media - wfs2012Josh Lindenger
This was a talk that I gave at the WorldFuture2012 conference covering some of my research mapping the future direction of locative media, which is essentially the convergence of our networked, real-time, digital world with the physical world we inhabit in our everyday lives. This was part of the "Best of Houston" panel showcasing some of the work from students in the University of Houston's Futures Studies graduate program.
While all the content and slides are licensed under CC-Attribution, the audio recording is owned by World Future Society and Intelliquest Media. Audio has been provided with the express permission of both rights holders.
This session from the WorldFuture 2013 conference explores a vision of the future that moves education beyond the boundaries of the classroom, both physical and digital. By examining trends in locative media, education, social technology, analytics, and implications of the coming “Big Data” era, we show how the future of learning may very well be one that is both ubiquitous and personalized.
In "Everywhere Education," school—or what we think of as formalized K-12 education and higher education—leaves the bounds of both the brick-and-mortar classroom and of cyber education. Many glimpses of the future of education seem to take education down the road of cyber education. One possible future is one in which education is not really bound by a classroom or a computer, but is ubiquitous in nature, unfolding in the real world as educational opportunities present themselves to the student, rather than only taking place during class time, or when the learner is logged into a computer for class.
Rather than discrete, bounded activities, learning and personal growth become continuous, guided practices meaningfully integrated into the experience of real life and the real world.
[Just slides for the moment, but I'm hoping to get audio up later]
Alternative Perspectives on the Future in Science Fiction: the Works of Olaf ...Josh Lindenger
This presentation was from a seminar on "Alternative Perspectives on the Future" as part of my Futures Studies program at the University of Houston. In it, I talk about some of the cool stuff in Olaf Stapeldon's "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker."
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Unfinished Business Design Fiction Lecture @ OCADChangeist
Unfinished Business Lecture - Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It (September 29, 2010 from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)
Unfinished Business Events are designed by Torch Innovation and Normative Design and sponsored by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD.
Could we have had the iPhone without Star Trek? Can we create the next innovation without thinking about other possible worlds? What are we making out of our imaginations that will shape what’s next? As an emerging area of thought and practice, Design Fiction provides us with a way of “thinking about doing what we see and imagine”. By making models or prototypes of the future, we expose, test and probe further into it, exploring scenarios as use cases, as they are assumptions about the future made reality. Scott Smith of Changeist will take us on a journey to see where Design Fiction has come from, its impact on a generation unwittingly raised on it, and how designers, creatives, strategists, and other future-minded professions among us are applying it to actively provoke possible futures that we prefer.
How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account?
How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these. Questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology.
In this keynote, Rachel will share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities the current cultural watershed will present to our industry as well as the metamorphosis our field must undergo in order to create great experience across different cultures.
Whitney Quesenbery, Taapsi Ramchandani, Maggie Ollove
UXPA and IDXA NYC World Usability Day November 9, 2017
Of course we want to be inclusive...but where to start? There’s accessibility, language, digital inclusion, global, cultural, and socio-economic differences. Come learn how to broaden your research to include more voices in the people you meet and the stories you collect. And how to use those stories in a conscious act of innovation.
We’ll share some of our best research tips, introduce you to some of the people we’ve met, and tell you the stories that changed our product. Then, you’ll explore ideas for how to make your own work more inclusive. Hopefully, you will leave inspired to be an inclusion superhero and delight everyone who uses your products.
What you will learn:
- Ways to think about inclusion
- Ideas for increasing the diversity of your research participants
- Examples of how insights from inclusive research can expand and improve your product vision
Staging systems to feel round the corners of Transition DesignJabe Bloom
The challenges our societies face, such as climate change, require radical innovation (Proactionary Principle [Fuller]). But the complexity of our societies also demand that we be more attentive to the consequences of those innovations (Precautionary Principle). The challenges we face are, after all, the result of previously unanticipated consequences. It is by definition not possible to anticipate ‘black swans,’ but we should perhaps expect more than to cultivate an anti-fragility that merely awaits shocks [Talib]. How then to develop rich senses of the consequences of innovations designed to respond to phenomena like climate change?
We call this capacity ‘seeing around corners,’ since the aim is not merely to build a system model that can predict an end state, but instead to sense what is possible and likely once at the position of that end-state. An analogy would be the ability to forsee texting-while-driving whilst designing the user experience of a cell phone.
Theoretically, the point would be that designers have privileged access to niche temporarily materialized potential futures, as such they need to be equipped to not only make effective decisions about quality of life, but also be aware of the moral and ethical consequences of instantiating these futures in the wider world.
As an aside, we are interested in ‘feeling around corners’ in reaction to an increasing tendency in commercial systems design to give up on larger-scale forethought and instead trust in Lean Emergence. We wish to preserve the Situatedness that comes from these ways of working (that is a corrective to temptations to ‘See like a State’ Planning), but nevertheless see the need for more forceful directedness, especially when negotiating societal challenges requiring strong, voluntary actions.
Describing the Elephant: UX Cambridge 2014Eric Reiss
My keynote from UX Cambridge 2014. My personal review of some of the problems we face communicating the value of user experience community today, a couple of practical, actionable tools, and suggestions as to how we can strengthen our community.
My (annotated) closing plenary from UX Camp Europe 2015.
Most UX professionals these days are concerned with learning to use the tools of our trade. Yet, these tools have been around for decades – if not centuries – with new names given with each passing generation. But to truly get the most out of these tools (from personas to customer-journey maps), it sometimes helps to step back and reflect on what we are actually trying to achieve.
I would like to share some of the things I have learned over the years. Hopefully, my experiences can help you bring the practice of UX to a higher level, help your clients and colleagues understand why UX is important, and help you actually prove the value of your work.
Here are the questions I have been asking myself for almost four decades. Are YOU asking yourself these questions? If not, perhaps it is time to start.
Why are products and companies doomed without a focus on UX?
When is a company ready to embrace UX?
Who are the people that make good UX designers?
What are the ingredients of UX?
How do we measure the results of our UX efforts?
Mapping the Future of Locative Media - wfs2012Josh Lindenger
This was a talk that I gave at the WorldFuture2012 conference covering some of my research mapping the future direction of locative media, which is essentially the convergence of our networked, real-time, digital world with the physical world we inhabit in our everyday lives. This was part of the "Best of Houston" panel showcasing some of the work from students in the University of Houston's Futures Studies graduate program.
While all the content and slides are licensed under CC-Attribution, the audio recording is owned by World Future Society and Intelliquest Media. Audio has been provided with the express permission of both rights holders.
This session from the WorldFuture 2013 conference explores a vision of the future that moves education beyond the boundaries of the classroom, both physical and digital. By examining trends in locative media, education, social technology, analytics, and implications of the coming “Big Data” era, we show how the future of learning may very well be one that is both ubiquitous and personalized.
In "Everywhere Education," school—or what we think of as formalized K-12 education and higher education—leaves the bounds of both the brick-and-mortar classroom and of cyber education. Many glimpses of the future of education seem to take education down the road of cyber education. One possible future is one in which education is not really bound by a classroom or a computer, but is ubiquitous in nature, unfolding in the real world as educational opportunities present themselves to the student, rather than only taking place during class time, or when the learner is logged into a computer for class.
Rather than discrete, bounded activities, learning and personal growth become continuous, guided practices meaningfully integrated into the experience of real life and the real world.
[Just slides for the moment, but I'm hoping to get audio up later]
Alternative Perspectives on the Future in Science Fiction: the Works of Olaf ...Josh Lindenger
This presentation was from a seminar on "Alternative Perspectives on the Future" as part of my Futures Studies program at the University of Houston. In it, I talk about some of the cool stuff in Olaf Stapeldon's "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker."
http://inarocket.com
Learn BEM fundamentals as fast as possible. What is BEM (Block, element, modifier), BEM syntax, how it works with a real example, etc.
Content personalisation is becoming more prevalent. A site, it's content and/or it's products, change dynamically according to the specific needs of the user. SEO needs to ensure we do not fall behind of this trend.
Lightning Talk #9: How UX and Data Storytelling Can Shape Policy by Mika Aldabaux singapore
How can we take UX and Data Storytelling out of the tech context and use them to change the way government behaves?
Showcasing the truth is the highest goal of data storytelling. Because the design of a chart can affect the interpretation of data in a major way, one must wield visual tools with care and deliberation. Using quantitative facts to evoke an emotional response is best achieved with the combination of UX and data storytelling.
Unfinished Business Design Fiction Lecture @ OCADChangeist
Unfinished Business Lecture - Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It (September 29, 2010 from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)
Unfinished Business Events are designed by Torch Innovation and Normative Design and sponsored by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD.
Could we have had the iPhone without Star Trek? Can we create the next innovation without thinking about other possible worlds? What are we making out of our imaginations that will shape what’s next? As an emerging area of thought and practice, Design Fiction provides us with a way of “thinking about doing what we see and imagine”. By making models or prototypes of the future, we expose, test and probe further into it, exploring scenarios as use cases, as they are assumptions about the future made reality. Scott Smith of Changeist will take us on a journey to see where Design Fiction has come from, its impact on a generation unwittingly raised on it, and how designers, creatives, strategists, and other future-minded professions among us are applying it to actively provoke possible futures that we prefer.
How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account?
How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
As cheap PCs and inexpensive mobile phones flood the global market, usability and user experience professionals will encounter more and more questions like these. Questions that challenge not only our research tools and methodologies, but our fundamental assumptions about how people engage with technology.
In this keynote, Rachel will share her thoughts on the challenges and opportunities the current cultural watershed will present to our industry as well as the metamorphosis our field must undergo in order to create great experience across different cultures.
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How do you design a mobile money service for people in rural Uganda who’ve never had a bank account? How do you test the usability of a mobile phone’s address book for users in rural India who’ve never had an address… yet alone an analog address book?
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Summary of "Futures 2.0: rethinking the discipline" by askpang
1. Reality Check for “Alternative Perspectives” on
“Futures 2.0: rethinking
the discipline”
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Josh Lindenger – November 1, 2012
@jlindenger | josh@thefuturesunderground.com
2. A re-envisioning of futures based on the shape
of things today…
dealing with 21st century problems
understanding cognitive biases
harnessing new tools for collaboration/
understanding/shaping
realizing that people (all of them) create
the future
3. But first…
Who is Alex Soojung-Kim Pang?
look up “askpang” on the interwebs
to find all of his stuff
8. Despite all this,
we MUST think about the future
We just need to figure out
how to do it better…
9. Enter the tools…
For dealing with the complex future…
Social scanning | prediction markets
For evaluating methods and impact…
bias mitigation | ethnographic studies
For shaping the co-created future…
Choice architecture and nudges
10. Social scanning
would shift from a private activity to a public one
harnessing current scanning efforts
massaging them with algorithms
delivering aggregate, collective results to the
greater community
11. Prediction markets…
are a forecasting technique based on market economics
are kind of like a De/phi, but different
present some challenges for use by futurists
12. Futurists need tools that help
Mitigate the cognitive biases
that plague expertise
“better anticipate the future by more objectively
engaging with [our] own pasts”
13. A quick aside for context…
IARPA’s Aggregative Contigent
Estimation (ACE) challenge
14. Ethnographic studies
could help us understand how forecasts are used
The “not about being right, but useful” philosophy
is hard to stomach if you
don’t really know what useful means.
16. This paper is really one take on
The future of futures
and a pretty interesting one at that
17. The new tools could help us get at some
pretty important things for the field…
assessing the importance of accuracy
Countering cognitive biases
uniting the various strands of Futures
“take thinking about the future out into the world,
and make it more of an everyday activity”
18. The Challenge of Futures 2.0:
How do we help people
Create better futures
for themselves?
19. Reframe how we think of Futures
Not production of texts about the future…
social practices and performances
creating futures
20. What is our role then?
Futurists as
Choice architects
complexity | long-term perspective | creativity