Fjord insights

Our latest insights, snapshots from the future and big ideas…

It's the interface, stupid!

March 15th 2012

Augmented Reality (AR) has been around for a while now, and despite great advances in technology, it is usually a disappointing experience for the user.

Fjord Digital Trends 2012

January 3rd 2012

Fjord's annual trends report is live!

Design for digital context

December 1st 2011

Designing and creating the best digital service experiences demands a clear understanding of user context.

The tablet's effect on media consumption

October 21st 2011

At Fjord, we have completed many projects for the publishing industry, Bild in Germany, Bonnier in Sweden and the Metro in the UK to name a few. So we have much experience in the tablet's effect on media consumption and wanted to share some views.

Understanding the smartphone usage of lower income customers

July 25th 2011

This Fjord report is based on research carried out both formally and informally over recent months by Fjord in Los Angeles, California.

Data Visualisation - The Path to Understandability

June 27th 2011

Data Visualisation is becoming an increasingly important topic, and not just for designers or managers of large data sets.

Fjord’s Digital Nomads report highlights ‘new mobility’

March 14th 2011

Fjord’s trends and insights are designed to help clients and the wider public harness key trends and shifts in consumer behaviour, thus enabling them to create products and services attuned to the needs of current and future markets.

Fjord Trends 2011

January 5th 2011

Fjord’s Trends for 2011 are live!

Fjord Trends 2010

February 10th 2010

This year, Fjord's 2010 Trends take us beyond mobile.

Fjord 09 Mobile Trends

January 30th 2009

From the 'Android invasion' to the 'War for the world': Fjord presents 9 mobile trends for 09. This report focuses on technologies and behaviors that have been building up over the last few years and are going to break through to the mainstream in 2009.

Keynote speech at LIFT Asia

September 2nd 2008

At Lift Asia in Jeju Korea Fjord's Christian Lindholm shared some research on digital nomads and their views on mobility.

Mobile 2017: a personal vision

July 2nd 2008

Fjord’s Christian Lindholm makes predictions for the next ten years in mobility, talking handset and UI design, casual computing, open source, and other trends that will soon be the norm.

The new mobility

June 2nd 2008

Fjord’s Christian Lindholm talks about the future of mobility, the emergence of New Mobility and how the connected Mini PC will dramatically change the mobile landscape.

8 mobile trends for ‘08

January 10th 2008

Every year Fjord publishes a set of trends poised to shape the digital world.