Which insights into our digital (and post-digital) future did the NEXT Conference community find most compelling in 2025?

‘48 hours to save the world’ was the slogan of the Creativity Jam Hamburg. Jens Otto Lange invited the NEXT Service Design audience to this event. The aim of the jam is to bring creative people ...

Everything is ending at once – work, truth, screens, and even certainty itself. But we’re finally mature enough to see endings as thresholds. Here’s what we’ve learnt. The year 2025 marked something ...

We’re witnessing a change of power. The Big Tech oligarchy is finally taking over. Democracy will look different after the fact. Not that there hadn’t been disinformation and propaganda before. But ...

The media industry has been trapped in digital disruption for two decades. AI is only going to accelerate that change. Buckle up. The New York-based company joins several digital media companies in ...

We’ve been using the graphical interface for decades, while voice assistants have struggled. Could AI be the key that unlocks a new form of computing? For the past 40 years, we’ve known exactly how to ...

Threaded throught the talks and workshops of NEXT25 was a vision for humanity’s new role in the age of AI. The winners will be the first to grasp it… We have changed. Where once the reaction to new ...

Our industry is on the move from user-centricity and consumer-centricity to life-centricity. But what does it mean? In the beginning was user-centricity, and user-centricity was with Don Norman’s 1986 ...

The annual chinwag in Davos needs to translate ideas into action faster than ever before, as global instability grows. It’s tough being Davos Man these days. Making the annual pilgrimage to the Swiss ...

What caught your attention in 2024? The distant future of AI, the increasing pushback against the smartphone — and the global impact of the permacrisis and Amazon. It’s a glimpse into a complex world… ...

The Metaverse may well be the next wave of digital disruption. Act now, and you can avoid a handful of companies becoming its gatekeepers. It’s been a while since we had a major technology trend to ...