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The future low space economy with ESA’s Frank Salzgeber

The future low space economy with ESA’s Frank Salzgeber

Space is an untapped playground for establishing interplanetary business models and future economies.
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Zoey Tsopela
Above & Beyond: Lessons for Europe in resource efficiency and EV design & manufacturing

Above & Beyond: Lessons for Europe in resource efficiency and EV de...

Our Malmö studio recently got a new company car. The process dragged out far longer than it should have because we want to practice what…
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Zoey Tsopela
Above & Beyond: Normalizing design ethics into everyday practice

Above & Beyond: Normalizing design ethics into everyday practice

Above, like many other innovation agencies, sits in a unique position where we often use design and technology to enable better user…
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Zoey Tsopela
Re-examining the role and responsibilities of the future sound designer with Audity

Re-examining the role and responsibilities of the future sound desi...

We recently revisited the role of sound with Audity, a company that blends sound expertise with design thinking.
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Zoey Tsopela
Above & Beyond: How design thinking can improve/maintain a lively startup community.

Above & Beyond: How design thinking can improve/maintain a lively s...

The pain points caused by how resource-intensive it is to maintain a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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Zoey Tsopela
Above & Beyond: Talking purpose-driven entrepreneurship with Stefan Ytterborn

Above & Beyond: Talking purpose-driven entrepreneurship with Stefan...

If there’s one thing to learn from talking to Stefan, it’s that the design genius isn’t dead — they’ve just moved on to entrepreneurship.
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Zoey Tsopela
Lessons in Maintaining Digital Safe Spaces: How strong digital company culture can not only endure…

Lessons in Maintaining Digital Safe Spaces: How strong digital comp...

How to grow and evolve a digital company culture in a way that doesn’t become stagnant the longer we work from home.
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Renee Semko Gonzalez
Above & Beyond: Magnus Göransson asks “Has design become boring?”

Above & Beyond: Magnus Göransson asks “Has design become boring?”

Has design had become boring and predictable over the last decade? Magnus Göransson, former Design Director at LEGO discusses.
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Zoey Tsopela
Above & Beyond; Exploring tech & design through sound with Max Björverud.

Above & Beyond; Exploring tech & design through sound with Max Björ...

At the intersection of design, code, & art: This article will showcase where and how sound can help elevate a product or service.
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Zoey Tsopela
Chroma keying as a product design tool

Chroma keying as a product design tool

How Above experiment with tricks & tools (like Chroma Keying) to help speed up certain elements of the design process that tend to drag on.
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Victor Johansson
Above & Beyond: Designing the Future Business Travel Experience with Lufthansa Innovation Hub

Above & Beyond: Designing the Future Business Travel Experience wit...

The passengers of tomorrow will care about what they got out of a journey — a responsibility that now falls on the aviation industry.
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Zoey Tsopela
Rethinking our responsibility as both designers and consumers in a talk with Fairphone

Rethinking our responsibility as both designers and consumers in a ...

How can we, designers, contribute to the ethics and sustainability issues plaguing the phone industry? We talk with the founder of…
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Zoey Tsopela
What I do as an Experience Designer* *clue, it’s not designing screens.

What I do as an Experience Designer* *clue, it’s not designing scre...

Intro
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Victor Johansson
Above & Beyond: Perspectives to jump-start social enterprise innovation with Better Shelter

Above & Beyond: Perspectives to jump-start social enterprise innova...

Above & Beyond is an online talk where we bring together some of the world’s most curious to inspire and jump-start ideas that improve…
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Zoey Tsopela
When numbers don’t cut it: how to use empirical design challenges as catalysts for actionable…

When numbers don’t cut it: how to use empirical design challenges a...

Diversity in the workplace has been a big topic to weigh in on this year. While the notion that ‘diversity adds value to the workplace’ is…
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Renee Semko Gonzalez
Lights, camera, a̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Prototype!

Lights, camera, a̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Prototype!

A look into Above’s video prototyping process
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Arvind Sanjeev
A Taste of UX Research’s Future: Social media as a stand-alone UX research methodology

A Taste of UX Research’s Future: Social media as a stand-alone UX r...

Guidelines for using social media as a stand-alone UX research methodology for a purely digital UX future.
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Renee Semko Gonzalez
Above & Beyond; Digital Ethics & Responsible AI with Schibsted

Above & Beyond; Digital Ethics & Responsible AI with Schibsted

Identifying design practices as inspiration for tackling ethical issues such as bias within the field of AI.
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Zoey Tsopela
Lessons in Creating Digital Safe Spaces: How company culture can permeate remote working practices

Lessons in Creating Digital Safe Spaces: How company culture can pe...

How strong physical company culture can translate into positive, productive, and creative digital safe spaces during the COVID-19 pademic
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Renee Semko Gonzalez
Smart Contracts and Real Estate: The Past, Present, and the Future

Smart Contracts and Real Estate: The Past, Present, and the Future

This is an article by Mikael Ainalem and Fredrik Silfver from Norban Labs. We built a working prototype to sell and transfer homes on the…
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Norban Labs
Designing for “what we don’t know”

Designing for “what we don’t know”

The tangible impact of design, Pt 1
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Fanny Carlsson
The exploration lab that you haven’t yet started

The exploration lab that you haven’t yet started

The best way to predict the future is to be an active part of creating it.
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Fredrik Silfver
Touchdown San Fransisco

Touchdown San Fransisco

This month we’re setting up shop in San Francisco to work even closer with our clients and some of the most progressive people, thoughts…
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Above
Anti-digital design & a manifesto for the experience punk

Anti-digital design & a manifesto for the experience punk

That’s all folks. The digital to physical debate is over.
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Martin Johnson
Machine Learning — a magic ingredient for prototyping

Machine Learning — a magic ingredient for prototyping

Our experiences from prototyping with machine learning and how it can be part of a designer’s toolkit.
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Arvind Sanjeev
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