‘Meta Products – Meaningful Design For Our Connected World’ was written and designed by Amsterdam based design studio Booreiland, which itself doesn’t claim to have all the answers but moreover tried to make a book for the future. A book that starts a conversation, sparks new ideas and most of all that inspires. The book talks about the phenomenon of Meta Products, and also presents Network Focused Design as a design approach, usable for everyone who wants to design successful solutions for our connected world.

In the next few years products, services, places, knowledge and people will be web-enabled, creating new connections and new networks. Business success will rely on harmonious and valuable networks, called Meta Products.

With this the book aims not only at industry designers, but also at students from design academies. Next to that, many cases are provided along the way to support the theory. Within this new category of smart product-service networks the web will play a central role; it is the information stream that feeds the whole network. Think about examples such as Nike+, FedEx SenseAware and Fitbit.

“This is the book presentation of Meta Products – Meaningful Design For Our Connected World, held by Menno Huisman, co-author of the book, on november 25th 2011. The presentation explains the contents of the book and the accompanying website, but also gives background information of the writing process itself.”

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