Monique Lempers, Fairphone’s Impact Innovation Director, and Filip Sauer, our CEO, speak with Fast Company about designing the world’s most repairable 5G smartphone.
We make the ranks on Fast Company’s Third Annual List of the 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators. Joining Google, Samsung, Mattel, IBM, General Motors, Moderna, and many others.
Above agency joins ARC group! Above will become a new important piece in ARC’s interconnected client service offering and also bring a new competitive edge thanks to their world leading position in design & technology.
Above is very proud to have supported the Suunto team in defining the new design language for this masterpiece. The Suunto 9 Peak is built for adventures, featuring a sleek form factor that fits seamlessly on the wrist for ultimate comfort. Tested in the harshest conditions, the Suunto 9 Peak can follow you anywhere. It's packed with a plethora of favorite features (and more), in a distilled and refined package.
Together with the Bang & Olufsen team, we crafted a product using materials, manufacturing processes, and finishes that are intrinsically scratch and wear-resistant— pushing the possibilities of a premium design in a supremely durable package. The result is a grabbable adventure speaker that's pure in form, function, and sound that can take a hit from a wave or full glass of wine.
We’re extremely proud to be recognized by one of the world’s leading publications for our work with Globhe. The work we’ve done for GLOBHE is a model example of how design and technology can make a significant impact on future services and products.
Above releases a 6 step process for video prototyping along with best practices and a Chalk UI kit for anyone to give it a shot.
Above supports Scania in facilitating a pre-study with the aim to conceptualize the proposed interventions of the future state of sustainable logistics systems- a pre-study.
The world’s leading innovation consultancies in one place. Sifted, a Financial Times backed publication, is building a community of innovation professionals who know how to get corporations and startups working together effectively.
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Above & Beyond is a new bi-monthly online talk where we bring together some of the world’s most curious minds to inspire, motivate, and jump-start ideas that will improve life for today and tomorrow. Schibsted, one of the largest publishers in the Nordics, joined us to talk about Digital Ethics & Responsible AI. Check out our report, which includes best practices and tools from the team at Above.
In the fight against malaria, there’s a new weapon: Drones
Fast Company writes about our collaboration with crowddroning platform Globhe. Together with Globhe we are solving real-world challenges by connecting authorized drone pilots from across the globe with important institutions and companies like the UN to prevent the next pandemic.
Profitable industries can’t reinvent themselves from within. Something has to come from the outside to drive a positive change. After all, who kills a money printing machine? For the real estate industry, the Blockchain technology works as an accelerator. It could be the shake up the industry needs to push it forward. Let’s have a look at why.
We just landed for the annual tech and design year kick-off at CES in Las Vegas. And as always we are in town to keep on top of emerging trends, nurture existing and create new partnerships.
The most brilliant and successful companies we’re working with have the same characteristics in common. They continuously explore, prototype and test new directions, technologies, and design patterns in a structured way. Check out this article about getting your team started with exploration and prototyping.
Mudita’s mission is to take away the pressure of social media and our always online attitude through education. Above has worked with Mudita on the industrial design concepts to define a modern take on a classic phone that helps people enhance offline time and look after your well being.
On October 9-11th, we’ll be joining the forces at the Service Design Global Conference 2019, sharing experiences in shaping the future of systemic thinking, service design and sustainable practices.
As Head of Communications & Marketing, you’re responsible for the development of the brand and communication on a global market - ranging from the highest strategic responsibilities all the way down to execution and creation of content.
On top of a hill in the midst of Stockholm, sits a small test ground for the future to come. It may not look much to the world when you pass by, a nicely laid out race track made up by white limestone overlooking the Swedish capital. But in a bigger perspective, it carries a much wider context, that I will talk about in this text.
Starting this month we’re setting up shop in San Francisco to bring our Scandinavian perspectives and ways of working even closer to some of the most progressive companies, people, thoughts and brands around.
Read our Digital Director Martin Johnson's thoughts about the changing landscape of products and services, why digital and physical needs to blend together, and how to save design from a boring death by powerpoint.
Above hires the former North Kingdom CEO to accelerate growth in digital experience innovation.
In this article, we will be sharing some of our learnings from using these tools for our projects and how, as designers, we can use them as part of our toolkit for prototyping experiences.
As the natural next step to evolve strategy, leadership and partnerships we today welcome chaIrwoman Charlotte Boij and Anna Frick to the board. Together they form a dynamic strategic duo with decades of experience and expertise from multiple CEO and board positions.
We explore how to design for responsible innovation that engages consumers as participants in sustainable practices.
First article on the adressed topic from Felix Heibeck in collaboration with Johanna Tunlid and Victor Johansson.
Did you know that 80% of companies say they deliver “superior” customer service but only 8% of customers agree? Check out what our Senior service designer Fanny Carlsson has to say about customer experience at Above.
Did you know that the air inside your car could be up to 15 times more polluted than on the street outside? Read more about how we worked in close collaboration with Blueair to support their team in creating this new product with the aim to open up for new markets and possibilities.
We were thrilled to host an amazing team of 50 Senior Managers from Nordea Sweden, the largest financial group in Northern Europe.