Services
Responding effectively to change means that organizations need to understand social and technological evolution now: What are the key emerging technologies? Which one will force a reinvention of your model? How will people react? What works, what doesn't? Why? How will this environment evolve? Can we map these new territories to anticipate, and turn innovation from a threat into an opportunity? We provide five areas of services to meet these ends:
Understand
We explore how people behave and interact with technologies in their environment, and use these insights to design better experiences. We rely on field research methodologies that enable clients to better understand their users.
Assess
We assess innovation through product audits, reviews and testing and field as well as desk research. We then develop a detailed assessment of the project at hand based on our expertise and targeted needs. We finally suggest improvements and alternative solutions
Share
Acquiring the right knowledge is the first step towards change, followed by spreading the word. We give lectures and run workshops on technology, innovation, design and social change. We also use our conference experience to organize private and public events for our clients.
Foresee
We map possible future changes to highlight new opportunities and prepare for them. We use futures research and tools to map emerging social and technological shifts and prepare for them.
Create
We create instantiations of possible near future applications. Based on prototyping methods, we make product ideas or insights coming from field studies materialize.
We currently specialize in the following domains: web and internet, video games, mobile and location-based services, urban computing and robotics/networked objects.