The coronavirus is changing all areas of our life: work, private life, mobility, communication, being together as people, groups, and societies. It is also changing the vehicle industry and its products, and our mobility. Much of it had been known for a long time and is now visible and accelerated as if under a magnifying glass. The virus is a turbocharger for change!
Christian Delise is the founder and director of Delise Design Works, an automotive design studio out of San Francisco. Before starting his own business he had various design positions at Volkswagen, Lamborghini, and Toyota. I am honored that Christian spend half an hour with me chatting about vehicle design, the relationship between humans and technology, and the influence of the digital world on human brains.
Last week a highly emotional event took place for everyone involved: the first on-site meeting, the first offline conference in what felt like years. Defacto it was only a few months, but everyone could tell that it was a special event. I summarize and comment on the main points of the conference.
Hamed Yahyaei is Design Lead and Senior UX, CX & Service Designer at Scania, the Swedish truck OEM. We talked about his life, his journey towards technology design, the difference between user experience and customer experience, and his views on the future of the automotive world. Interesting insights you should not miss!
There is no such thing as THE ONE science, but a large number of different disciplines. And within the individual disciplines, there are different directions, schools of thought, and views. In this episode of the human-technology podcast, I take a look at the history of science and then out a focus on the two sciences that, in my opinion, have the biggest influence on the design of human-technology interaction. Small spoiler: one of these disciplines focuses on humans, the other on technology.
Technology is very close to us, it gets on us. Or even into the body. That has advantages, makes sense, creates value. But it also creates a dull, negative feeling, insecurity, and fear. Using three automotive technologies as examples, two of which generate or use closeness, one distance, I discuss the closeness-distance relationship between humans and technology.
There are always situations in which creativity is required. Whether in the development of technology and HMIs or in other life situations. In this episode, I present three creativity techniques with which I have achieved enormous success with my clients.
Thinking Fast and Slow is the main publication by Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman. It is on the topics of thinking, decision making, and acting. For our brain, it defines the fast and imprecise system 1 and the analytical, slow system 2. I have extracted three theses from the book and analyze how they can influence the development of technology.
Automated driving, self-driving vehicles, and, at the end of the day, rolling robots that autonomously manage entire routes are some of the visions of the future and are some of the major megatrends in the automotive industry. The different levels of automation are defining how the relationship between people and technology, between driver and vehicle, is designed.
Based on SAE levels 0 to 5, I will discuss how HMIs, vehicle interiors, and how the relationship between driver and vehicle changes.
The first industrial revolution started in England at the end of the 18th century. Agrarian societies turned into industrial societies, the foundations for the highly technological world of today had been created. I analyze the industrial revolutions from 1 to 4, their effects on the relationship between people and technology, and what that means for HMIs (human-machine interfaces). This episode discusses the third and fourth industrial revolutions.