Tag: consumer electronics

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  It’s the Services Stupid! Transforming Old Age & New Technology Into Business Innovation

  24 days ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Many people looking to bring new ideas to old age are still warm from the glow of LED and plasma displays at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas earlier this month. Yes, there were screens, laptops and tablets a plenty…even a few robots and wearable devices to monitor ... Read More

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  Why US Baby Boomers are Slow to Buy Smart Phones: Technophobes or Value Buyers?

  11 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  The telecommunications industry is stumped by the baby boomers.The first cohort to refuse to let products or services define them as ‘old’,one would think the boomers would be quicker to acquire smart phones, whichpromise prompt responses to work-related emails and apps to followeverything from ... Read More

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  GenEX-pectation Rising: What Business & Government Need to Know is the Real Difference Between the Baby Boomers & Yesterday's Old Age

  11 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  I was invited by AARP and the Atlantic Monthly to join a forum "What's Next? How Technology will Revolutionize the Boomer Generation" in Washington, DC last Fall. This is update to a previous post Baby Boomers & Technology: Possibilities, Privacy & Promise. Alexis Madrigal, Senior Editor of ... Read More

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  Three Lessons from the Auto Industry on Product Innovation for Baby Boomers

  about 1 year ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  The auto industry is slowly coming back. Not just in termsof revenues but back to boomers. For nearly all products, the baby boomers of Australia,Europe, North America, as well as Japan’s Dankai buy the high-style, high-techand high-priced vehicles. While the 20, 30 and even 40-somethings may want ... Read More

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  Packaging a Promise: Four Ways the New iPad Meets & Exceeds Baby Boomer Expectations

  almost 2 years ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  The iPad. It’s new. It’s cool. And, it’s a terrific designexperience that is likely to excite and delight your grandmother…and you. It isa stellar example of what designers should consider when creating systems forolder, no actually, all users – from systems that deliver fun to medicaldevices ... Read More

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  Personalization: The New Language of Design for Older Consumers

  almost 2 years ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Ironically, the growth of new disruptive technologies is only rivaled by the growth of disruptive demographics in an aging marketplace. These two forces collide and are reconciled by designers on the interface of every new device. Researchers and industry have spent considerable time and resources ... Read More

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  User-Centered Design & Innovating to a Higher Standard: Exciting and Delighting the Older Consumer

  almost 2 years ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Innovative product design is increasingly crucial as the generally educated and wealthier boomer consumer rises to the fore of the marketplace with a lifetime of technology experience and rising expectations in tow. Although the current emphasis on invention is important, it misses the mark and ... Read More