About digital transformation, design, creativity and lifestyle in the Networked Society.
10 Year ago, we (Fredrik Öhrfelt, Mikael E Björling, Erik Kruse) submitted a paper "Converging Technology - Diverging Families" to ESOMAR. The paper was nominated to the ESOMAR award ”best research paper of the year”. The research we did 2006 was about technology usage in middleclass families in US, Sweden, and Spain. Well, is an... Continue Reading →
I developed this IP telephony concept during the autumn 2000 for Ericsson Business Corporation. The work included doing the interaction design, graphical design, prototype development and usability testing. This was three years before the first version of Skype was launched 2003. The sound quality in the application was incredible good at the time. This at a time... Continue Reading →
These design sketches are from about year 2000. Mobile phone screens still had black and green screens and this is seven years before the first Apple iPhone was launched. I still have my R380 in a box together with most other phones I have used. I did these screen designs in a project where we... Continue Reading →
As mobile technologies continue to liberate us from specific locations and time restrictions, it becomes less important where, when and how work is done. This ultimately will change how people moving around in cities. Some will work from home,others will go to the office and still others may prefer to sit at a café. Telecommuting... Continue Reading →
The office space is changing and I don't thing we understand the impact of that change. It will change how we organize work. I have a new post on the topic at the Networked Society blog >>> https://videopress.com/v/aMSgZKZu?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true
A few days ago I wrote a new post on how working life is changing as we enter the Networked Society and eight areas that we will see more of at work. Read the post at the Networked Society blog >>>
Learning and education are in a time of transformation. The research I been involved in shows that students and progressive teachers, empowered by technology, are the catalysts to fundamental change. ICT is literally breaking down the walls of the classroom, and we have to start looking upon learning as something that takes place everywhere, all... Continue Reading →
31 years today since NMT Nordic Mobile Telephony was launched. Ericsson vintage commercial from the early eighties Telia vintage commercial
The way we watch TV is evolving continuously. About 10 years ago, it was all about the size of your TV screen at home. While the bigger the better still applies in the living room, in the past two or three years, mobile broadband and the cloud have enabled TV content to be viewed on... Continue Reading →
Mikael Eriksson Björling 