Still looking for a new normality or already prepping for the unknown? Read on and discover the questions that guide this year’s Tangity Directions. Written and edited by Nilo Belonio with contributions by Ian Bower, Emanuela Cozzi, Antonio Grillo, Christoph Rauscher, Vincent Riess andDominic Quigley. At Tangity, the global network…

While sustainability in business is a rising trend, we can also implement green practices online. That’s why at Tangity, we are exploring the theory and practice of designing sustainable digital solutions with the support of a toolkit and a list of very concrete actions. — What is sustainable design? The term Sustainable Design refers to creating products and services by considering their environmental, social, and economic impacts from the initial phase until the end of the product-service lifecycle.

We live in uncertain times, which makes it more important than ever to question the status quo, our reality and beliefs. Join us and try on a set of three different lenses to switch your perspective and break automatisms that lead us astray. — As part of our mission to humanize complexity, every year at Tangity, NTT DATA’s global network of design studios, we question the role of Design and ask ourselves how it can help us overcome the challenges of humanity. …

At the intersection of design, technology and user needs, a new chair has taken center stage at Milan Design Week 2022. Known as Silente*, its name already suggests its unique character. — Manufactured by Luxy and developed in collaboration with the Tangity Milan design studio, Silente* aims to respond to some of the new needs and behaviours that have emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Tangity and Star have teamed up to reimagine the automotive industry and deliver a safer yet more innovative and intuitive driving experience for the future. — As for many, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t been easy. So it comes as no surprise that these turbulent times weren’t ideal conditions for the first collaboration between Tangity and Star. At Tangity, we humanize complexity through design. We put together ideas that are inspired by people’s needs…

The rise of the humans — Drowning, not waving We hoped that data might provide the answers. The more we know, the more we can do, the more targeted we can be, the less waste we will create. But information without context not only baffles and wastes time, it can also feel really disempowering. …

How to take the time to stay relevant. — Staying relevant seems like it’s getting harder. The pace and scale of change — socially, economically, technically — is increasing every day. Of the 100 companies in the FTSE in 1984, only 33 are still trading. Business models that used to be sacrosanct are disappearing left and right. Big corporations…

At Tangity, we created a toolkit to enable our designers exploring a flood of futures and being able to collect insights and clues to stimulate a debate and to deal with the uncertainty of our times — in terms of individuals, societies and businesses. — The mission Untangling alternatives is not a toolkit for fortune-tellers; in fact, it’s quite the opposite, it is a mission for explorers, travelers and adventurers. Do you feel like one of those? Great, because to explore and untangle the future with our toolkit, you need to: leave your biases behind, embrace complexity…

It’s about bending, not breaking. — Organizations have traditionally been engineered for maximum efficiency. Pare every stage, every cost, every process down to the fastest, cheapest method possible, and then scale. It works brilliantly for making Model T Fords or cooking a lot of Big Macs. But it’s fragile. Inflexible. Brittle. One small problem on the…