LONDON, UK – Today we’re excited to be at Nokia’s London base for a rare behind-closed-doors design event dubbed The Inside Story.

Alastair Curtis, Head of Design at Nokia, has just introduced the themes of today’s event and the things we can expect to find out during our time here. Alastair shared a design insight that your mobile is becoming more of a “sixth sense”, equipping you with “super-human” abilities. Read on to find out more about this concept that is being explored by the Nokia design team, and what else we’ll be reporting back on.

Will our skyline change with Augmented Reality and intelligent buildings?

GLOBAL – Last week Nokia designer and human behavioral researcher Jan Chipchase posed an interesting scenario related to Augmented Reality and architecture of the future – “To what extent will tomorrow’s urban architecture be designed to be digitally augmentable?” He refers to the concept of projecting images onto architecture, essentially acting as canvasses of digitally harvestable information via your device’s camera. He even mentions the idea of ‘proximity broadcasting’ via sources such as street lights.

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Video: Top Nokia Designer explores future mobile trends

SOUTH KOREA, Asia – It’s Jan Chipchase’s job to look into the future, glimpsing how we’ll behave in three to 15 years time. If you’re a regular Conversations reader you’ll be familiar with our fascination with Jan’s work as part of Nokia Design, traveling the globe researching human behaviour, social interaction, trends, and investigating what it all means and how it could mould and help fine-tune Nokia’s approach towards future developments.

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Design in motion

GLOBAL – Deep inside the Nokia design team are a couple of people who spend a lot of their time traveling the world, talking to people, taking pictures and turning that research into meaningful insights for the rest which Nokia can react to.

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NOKIA DESIGN EVENT: Everyone connected

LONDON, England – The United Nations wants half of the world connected
through telecommunications by 2015. That’s one hell of an ambition, but
when you understand what it means to people, and countries to have the
things we take for granted, you’ll see why.

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What if we all changed our chargers?

Ok. So I am a bit loony, but I’ve been excited for a long time by the Nokia High Efficiency Charger. From what I’ve been told, normal Nokia chargers draw about 150mA power when just plugged in and not charging a device (when the charger is on standby). The High Efficiency Charger only draws 15mA when plugged in and idle (I might have to be corrected here, but I do know it’s a 1:10 ratio).

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Greenfield appointed new Head of Design Direction

HELSINKI, Finland - This August will see a new Head of Design Direction joining Nokia as Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing takes up the post at Nokia HQ.