Weeknote 25-26/2010

We’re not on holidays yet, no no. Instead we cranked out a multitouch tablet TV concept and launched a service.

Launch!

The service has been in the making for quite a long now. It’s good to finally see it go online and start to pickup users. In fact, due to the unique nature of this service it has a potential to grab huge number of users from the general populace. This project has seen many people since it’s beginning, but mainly the final design is done by Sami and myself. Talented people from the client and a 3rd party agile tech house have also had months long endurance, fighting all sorts of technical challenges, and working a lot with us on the design, too. Sadly we can’t say which service this is.Thanks from our behalf as well, it’s been a long ride.

And it’s not over yet. Now we are planning the next half a year’s worth of development on this one and other sibling services in this service ecosystem.

Concept!

In the multitouch tablet TV concept for our dear client SuomiTV, Mikael the client and some of our people talk about the place of tablets at home, our research on the topic and some new fantastic interactions we came up with. Panu, Sami, Ilkka, Sauli, Tia and Samuel were the main team in this project, but the final concepts include ideas from probably all of us.

The video comes (so far) with two blog posts that further iterate the concept. Have a look at them if you’re interested in multitouch interactions.

PART 1: TAP THE TV – The Concept

PART 2: TAP THE TV — New Interactions

In the end this is all about how watching television is changing. And naturally anything that is (or could be) in the middle of change, is something that we at Nordkapp are interested in. Nice, quick, fun, inspiring project. Let’s have more of these.

See you in one or two summer weeks. Maybe.