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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011DT over at Design Sojourn has taken the 5 top consumer trends from Trendwatching.com and added his opinion on what this means from the product design point of view. Here's a snippet,
4) Trysumers
This will be one of the problems for designers, especially in the software industry. Consumers are spoilt, as you can get almost anything online for free even, its going to be hard going forward to encourage people to part with their money. This is one of the big problems with digital music, why pay for it when you can get it for free. Though what I’m saying not the gist of this point number 4, the relation of this comes to how people treat and deal with objects. Anything that is free or almost free has little emotional value. The increase of disposable consumerism is just one side effect.
5) Global Brain
This sounds like a re-badged Philip’s LiMe (Living Memory) concept. With 3G phones and network running costs getting more affordable, feedback of ANYTHING becomes easy. It will soon be instead of “Buyers Beware” it will now be “Buyers Aware”.
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