Global Bigdata Conference

A Chinese aphorism says that "the fire burns highest when everyone adds wood to it." It's an apt way to describe the way that industrial design and product development are becoming a collaborative undertaking. Cities like Shenzhen, long known as factory towns that churn out low-end toys and shoes, are embracing a new identity as creative meccas for design. This trend is gathering steam worldwide, for one main reason: design tools are starting to function less like inanimate objects and more like colleagues or assistants. As people and machines begin working together in new ways, the field of design will turn into a team sport, one where human ingenuity combines with artificial intelligence and automation to broaden the possibilities of how society shapes the world.