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TAP THE TV — New Interactions
The most intriguing thing about multitouch tablets is that they really do represent a notable paradigm shift in interaction. As you’ve probably seen from the Youtube videos, the iPad/iPhone direct interaction is as close to natural interface as one gets. The absense of a pointing device removes an extra step from between the user and [...]
Read more »WDC 2012 Idea forum: Touchscapes
We are proud to announce our participation in World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Ideas Forum, under the theme Touchscapes; Toward the next urban ecology. The theme of WDC Helsinki 2012 is Open City, and in similar vain the workshops on May 22nd are voluntary, free-for-all events. Their aim is to join the organizers to brainstorm, [...]
Read more »Week 14 / 2010
This week: projects coming to an end, new ones starting, moving offices and a world record. Business as usual? As Teppo is spending his quite earned last days of paternity leave in the lovely, springy coastlines of Estonia, I’ll be writing the weeknote this week. And it’s been quite an interesting one to say at [...]
Read more »World Record in Being Agile.
A few weeks back our client SuomiTV released a web tv designed by us, and built by Soprano Brain Alliance on top of Brightcove‘s technology. For us, it was business as usual, until we heard we’d broken a world record in process. Bit of a background— at Nordkapp, we work with a fairly systematic process/framework [...]
Read more »We are in the business of Change
As promised a while ago, we thought it would be useful to share the more long term thinking and work that goes into running and developing a design consultancy. In this series myself and other founding partners will be reflecting the past two and a half years, things we’ve learned and also about the future [...]
Read more »Week 8/2010
On this weeknote; a guest editor, and a few happy events. As Teppo is enjoying his holiday this week, I promised to keep the weeknotes rolling. It’s been quite exciting week. As mentioned last week, we won a major new client on Friday. This week was spent on organizing the first phase and with bit [...]
Read more »About the iPad
After a long wait, the Apple tablet saw the light of the day today. We at Nordkapp are as excited as you are, and here’s a few thoughts on what this might be all about; The new old media One of the most obvious uses for this is naturally the “old” media and the publishing industry. [...]
Read more »We are looking for a Designer
UPDATE: We’ve found the person we’re looking for. Thanks for all the brilliant applicants for your interest. Your Background Ideally, the person we are looking for is someone who is, by nature, very comfortable with social and digital media. A digital native, if you will. It doesn’t matter whether you fit in the age demographic. [...]
Read more »Eight things for 2010
Here are some of the themes we think will either finally make their way into mainstream or are there, and keep on on getting stronger in 2010. Tell us what you think in the comments. 1. Design as a process In 2006, the UK’s Design Council published their seminal paper on Transformation Design. Somehow things [...]
Read more »Looking in from the Outside
Here’s the presentation I gave for the annual Project Managers’s Club seminar at Aalto University Design Factory on 25.11.
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