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And the winner is 1.      Fun and playfulness 2.      Behavioural architecture 3.      Augmented reality 4.      Realtime 5.      People commerce 6.      VRM ...

So a week before the 2010 Fantastic Tavern Trends debate and things are shaping up nicely. I have received a diverse selection of trends to discuss – I thought I’d share them with you so you can get a taste for what’s in store. While we might easily be obsessing with digital culture and social media phenomena (Forrester’s big tip for 2010), ...

The Experience Planning team first came across this Morgan Stanley presentation last year, and we  found it to be one of the most insightful papers of  2008. This  year’s presentation,  looks equally essential reading. The insights related to the mobile web are fascinating…especially the slides on computing cycles and ...

I’ve been really impressed by the work a small team here has been doing with Microsoft on Smart Metering, and it has really got me thinking.I was discussing my interest in the subject over a pint with a friend last week. I consider this friend to be very technology aware (he’s generally ahead of me in terms of technology adoption at least) but to ...

An interesting article from Wired on how Nike ‘Unleashed the power of personal metrics’ is highlighted in our latest Experience Planning newsletter.It’s worth taking some time to read this article. Not only because it is a cracking good yarn told well, but because it:Highlights how insight in to human behaviour really helps to explain why simple ...

The Fantastic Tavern returned two weeks ago (sorry for the delay in writing this but an adventure in Japan took presidence), reformatted and in a new location, The Leather Exchange. This time the food was so much better and didn’t run out and there was just enough beer and wine to last the evening. The community is growing – there are over 100 ...

A few weeks ago I came in to our offices at 36 Southwark Bridge Road, just between Borough Market and Tate Modern, and was confronted with scaffolding and a plain white hoarding. My immediate thought was that this was an awesome blank canvas... So rather than procastinate around and think it was a good idea and have a bunch of grand schemes as to ...

Dan Sumner at Microsoft seemed quite intrigued by a presentation I made the other day on a couple of trends that came through our friends at the Future Laboratory. The Slash/Slash Generation was one. More on this another day, but the one that captured his imagination was ''The Design of Womenomics''. What The Future Laboratory were saying is ...

Last week, a creative called Paul Arden lost his battle with a long-term illness. While you might not realise it, you probably know the man’s work even though you may not recognise the name. Remember the hundreds of people walking from the sea to converge as a big smiling face for British Airways? Or the iconic branding device of a slash in ...

Yes, it is pretty. And even now, people are fascinated by it if you have one. But boy, am I glad I didn't buy one. I have been trialling one for the last few days. I have learned to live life near a charger - and I haven't used it to do email and make very few voice calls. The battery life is woeful. And using the web is like it used to be ...