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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.
Zoey Tsopela
Feb 26
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.
Zoey Tsopela
Feb 8
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.
Victor Johansson
Jan 12
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.
Zoey Tsopela
Dec 22, 2020
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…
Zoey Tsopela
Dec 14, 2020
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
Victor Johansson
Dec 1, 2020
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…
Zoey Tsopela
Nov 25, 2020
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…
Renee Semko Gonzalez
Nov 10, 2020
Lights, camera, a̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Prototype!
Lights, camera, a̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Prototype!
A look into Above’s video prototyping process
Arvind Sanjeev
Aug 4, 2020
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.
Renee Semko Gonzalez
May 13, 2020
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.
Zoey Tsopela
Apr 17, 2020
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
Renee Semko Gonzalez
Mar 23, 2020
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…
Norban Labs
Feb 3, 2020
Designing for “what we don’t know”
Designing for “what we don’t know”
The tangible impact of design, Pt 1
Fanny Carlsson
Dec 2, 2019
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.
Fredrik Silfver
Oct 17, 2019
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…
Above
Sep 24, 2019
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.
Martin Johnson
Sep 10, 2019
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.
Arvind Sanjeev
Aug 26, 2019
Sustainable User Experience
Sustainable User Experience
Designing products that engage consumers as participants in sustainable practices.
Felix Heibeck
Aug 20, 2019
Designing consumer electronics in the Anthropocene. An Exploration.
Designing consumer electronics in the Anthropocene. An Exploration.
Going beyond ‘user-centered’ design towards embracing sustainability as a core design value.
Felix Heibeck
Jul 22, 2019
A(nother) Beginner’s Guide to Making Circular Products
A(nother) Beginner’s Guide to Making Circular Products
Re-use, re-furbish, re-purpose. 2 years ago we wrote the article “A beginners guide to making circular products” What has happened since?
Johanna Tunlid
Jul 10, 2019
Speechless
Speechless
This is a call for action. Enough talking about climate change and sustainability. It is time to act.
Johanna Tunlid
Jan 24, 2019
Exploratory Prototyping in Product Design
Exploratory Prototyping in Product Design
Prototyping for innovation in early product design stages — or: how we learned to love shitty prototypes.
Felix Heibeck
Oct 15, 2018
Above hosts successful event on an impossible topic
Above hosts successful event on an impossible topic
On June 5, Above hosted the afternoon event “Impossible BBQ” on how to approach the seemingly impossible challenge of developing…
Fanny Carlsson
Jun 26, 2018
A Regional Travel Experience
A Regional Travel Experience
Written by Johanna Tunlid Co-Authors, editing and illustrations: Erik Jonsson, Aleksandar Andreevski, Johan Liljeros & Markus Ånskog
Erik Jonsson
Mar 23, 2018
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