Predict the Future

These four steps for repeatable technical innovation have proven trustworthy for us on project after project.

In order to meet the needs of future users, companies must anticipate disruptive technologies and develop a path to innovation.

To achieve societal trust and move responsibly into an AI-enabled healthcare future, we need to put four elements in place.

Fresh from our webinar, AI & Medical Device Development, we'd like to share a few takeaways from the discussion.

I am excited about where AI will take us in healthcare, but there are some challenges we will need to negotiate and serious dangers we must guard against.

Is your innovation incremental, strategic, or visionary? Use Delve's Future-Readiness Checklist to gauge your approach.

As healthcare moves toward everyday wellness, new health and wellness solutions will consist of offerings you wouldn’t expect from the current ecosystem. Designing solutions that provide a seamless integration of products and services will entice healthcare consumers.

Consumer-centric care will continue to be delivered faster, in unexpected places, and at previously untenable times of day and night. Companies that can redefine convenience will gain a competitive edge.

Advancements in AI and data analytics technologies, and the healthcare consumer’s increasing interest in tracking and sharing personal data, are paving the way for highly personalized care. To win this race, companies need to deliver deeper, more meaningful personalization.

Companies that provide more meaningful connection at an emotional and aspirational level will attract the next generation of healthcare consumers.

Future healthcare products need to be designed to embody a proactive and preventive mindset. This new paradigm is focused on enhancing our well-being and health in all areas of our life, all of the time.

Speculative design requires people to suspend their disbelief and allow their imaginations to wander. Here's one tool to ground it in reality.

In 2021 you devoured blogs about looking at old problems in new ways, unlocking your professional potential, and creating products that change the world for the better.

Warning: I’m going to criticize and question something beloved by millions of people—stationary exercise bikes.

When we reflect on 2020, we may come to think of it a period when we had the time to pursue simpler, do-it-yourself, pleasures like making bread or planting a garden. Many of us used the endless pandemic months to learn a new a language or take up a new outdoor sport.

Most products take anywhere from three to ten years to develop from idea to commercialization. But many companies rely on their understanding of consumers today to make decisions for these future products.

Translating research into actions is often more art than science. We have found “how might we” questions to be useful tools. Here's how to write one.

Forecasting and backcasting provide a framework for disruptive innovation by establishing a solid structure to support big, strategic thinking.

How will you decide today what to design for 2030? Strategists look to megatrends to predict consumer behavior and futureproof strategy.

Our free, on-demand webinar explains why innovation is so critical in healthcare, and introduces our Framework for Strategic Innovation: Health + Wellness.

We've examined key sociocultural megatrends through a lens of medical and wellness consumer experience to single out four profound shifts in the field.

We may need an innovacation after this! But no chance... the talks and exhibits are still going strong.

Jesse Darley and I arrived Friday evening and walked the streets of Austin. We were immediately immersed in all things SXSW. There were music, crowds, exhibits, lines, homeless, clubbers, diners, all of it.

Doing user research now won't help you design for 2028. Trend analysis will. Design strategists turn to it to predict consumers' future behavior.

Let's face it, technology can enable us to do a lot of new things. That doesn't mean we'll actually do them.

Your company probably has 3- and 5-year plans. But does it have a 30-year plan? If not, it may be unwittingly writing its own obsolescence.

Recently, I was asked by the University of Wisconsin to share my thoughts on the future of engineering education as the keynote speaker at their 2016 Engineering Innovation Showcase.

Have you ever read an article about design trends and wondered, “Where on earth did THAT come from?”

We did a thought experiment and traveled 50 years into the future to glimpse the future of healthcare and of the patient's user experience.