Julian Bleecker
Creative R&D, Product Strategy, and Prototyping Leader helping teams get hold of ambiguous, early-stage ideas through product sense, technical fluency, and strategic imagination.
- Role
- Founder at Near Future Laboratory
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Julian Bleecker
With over 20 years of experience, I am the founder of Near Future Laboratory, where I specialize in helping executives and organizations pre-visualize the future of business, products, services, and strategies. By combining insight analysis, design, and hands-on technology prototyping, I help organizations and teams explore strategic hypotheses to provide actionable insights as trusted advisors in navigating the complexities of innovation. I originated the concept of Design Fiction, a practice that uses speculative design to examine the implications of emerging technologies. My work reflects a commitment to pushing the boundaries of culture and technology, and I continue to advance new approaches to innovation through research and collaboration.
Experience
Founder
Jan 2005 — Present · US
The Near Future Laboratory is the place where our executive clients come to pre-visualize the future of the business, product, services and organizational strategy. We combine insight analysis with design and prototyping in order to understand how strategy plays itself out in the wider world. We explore and test strategic hypotheses, providing the exprience and insights of a trusted and optimistic advisor — who may also be a contrarian to conventional
Education
University of Washington
MS Eng, Computer-Human Interaction
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D., History of Consciousness Emphasizing Technology and Culture
Cornell University
BSEE, Electrical Engineering
Skills
- Mobile Devices
- Writing
- User Interface
- User-Centered Design
- Rapid Prototyping
- Hardware Development
- Creative Direction
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Software Design
- Designing
- Service Design
- New Media
- Concept Development
- Concept Design
- User Experience Design
- Design Strategy
- Photography
- User Experience
- Ios Development
- User Scenarios
- Information Architecture
- Digital Media
- R&D
- Product Marketing
- Electronic Product Design
- Art Direction
- User Interface Design
- Design Fiction
- User Research
- Human Computer Interaction
- Electronics Hardware Design
- Game Design
- Design Thinking
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