Nicolas Nova
About // Nicolas Nova
Nicolas Nova is a consultant and researcher who undertakes field studies to inform and evaluate the creation of innovative products and services. His work is about exploring and understanding people's needs, motivations and contexts to map new design opportunities and help designers and engineers. In addition to design ethnography, he is interested in foresight about scanning/analysis of signals about the future of various technologies. He is primarily interested in urban informatics, mobile and location-based media as well as video games and networked objects/robots.
Nicolas speaks and lectures widely in conferences such as O'Reilly's Etech, Reboot, PicNic, GDC and Mobile Monday. He is also the co-founder and editorial director of the Lift Conferences. He also teaches field research for designers in various design schools (HEAD in Geneva, Ecole Gobelins in Annecy). His latest books are “Les Médias Géolocalisés” (FYP Editions) and “A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing” with Julian Bleecker (Situated Technologies). His blog about future technologies/practices and their implications is called
Pasta and Vinegar. He studied Cognitive Sciences at the University of Lyon (France), Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and received a PhD in Computer Sciences from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland).
You can contact Nicolas by emailing nicolas@liftlab.com.