This is a blog by Nicolas Nova. I undertake user/field research at LIFTlab: I study people's practices as well as usage of technologies and turn them into insights, ideas, prototypes or recommendations to inform design and foresight.

This blog is a selection of the material that I collect, especially in fields such as mobility, urban environments, digital entertainment and new interfaces. I am also part of the near future laboratory and teach user researchin different design schools.

Email contact is: nicolas [at] liftlab [dot] com

Social web stuff: LinkedIn, twitter: @nicolasnova

• From teaspoons to Jetpacks: designing speculative futures by observing ordinary things and practices, RCA London, March 29, 2010
• Design and Designed Failures: From Observing Failurs To Provoking Them, ixda interaction10, Savannah, USA, February 5, 2010
• Ville, informatique pervasive et nouveaux paysages numériques, Séminaire EHESS, Paris, Jan 15th, 2009
• From instrumentation to social technologies in the city, Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, Jan 12, 2010, NYC.
• Preconceptions about users in networked objects, Council Launch event, December 4, 2009, Brussels
• L'innovation pluridisciplinaire, Panel Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs, 2 Décembre 2009, Paris
• L'usager dans les nouveaux objets industriels, Entretiens du Nouveau Monde Industriel, 26 Novembre 2009, Paris