It's now been over a week since Lift, but a few of the thoughts and impressions from the conference are still in my head, at least in distilled format. So here is a 5 min keypoints report from the conference.
Talking about The Future.
"If the story is the laboratory [for design], then writing is your experiment." [when you read a story - even science fiction, you know when it feels right and human]
--- Matt Webb
Investigating new territories (concept development) is about looking 15-20 years ahead. Philips look for future Crisis and imagine what will happen after them.
--- Clive Van Heerden
Augmented reality
"Phisical and virtual are coming together, rather than one cancelling the other." [great visualisation of Rome with overlaied mobile traffic during and after the 2006 Italy-France world cup final.]
--- Carlo Ratti
...but also 'The world of MARIKA' for MVT in Sweden
20,000 Sweeds have vanished. Based on a true story? Created a conflict between TV station and individual blogger, but it was all put up. "
--- Nicoletta Iacobacci
"Work used to be very visible, how can we make invisible work visible?"
Why? Because visualising the result of activity can feed back into the activity
--- Dan Hill
The weather forecasting umbrella and the importance of periferal vision [we pull stuff, we get pushed stuff, but we also glance].
--- David Rose
"He owned their arse"
--- Lee Bryant about the story of retired Marine Gen. Paul Van Riper winning a tactical exercise against the USA navy using low tech tactics.
Paraphrasing "Design has been taken over by usability but people take technologies and shape them to their own use"
--- Ramesh Srinivasan
"Make sure you leave a legacy"
--- Heartfelt appeal by Chris Hofmann - Netscape developer and then at the heart of the Mozilla project
"There are 3.5B mobiles and 1B PCs"
"For many people in the world their 1st experience of the internet is through the mobile"
--- Vinton Cerf - the father of the Internet [it means a lot more if HE says it]
If you want to read more, I'd recommend Dan Hill's post on the conference.