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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 [...]
Read more »Week 23+24/2010
Weeknote about iPad, Feed and summer. People are still excited about the iPad project. You can see one of the many project group sessions going on in the above picture. The project is coming together and a cool video concept looms in the future. Design-wise iPad also brings challenges, as there’s so many ways interaction [...]
Read more »Week 22/2010
Weeknote about new developments in Agile process, services getting nearer to launch and some quickies. Media house project’s first phase will be ready this Friday. During next few days we’ll finalize our presentation materials and specification document while design team finalizes the look & feel. The client is very interested in deepening cooperation with us. [...]
Read more »Week 21/2010
Weeknote about problems in Agile Last week, like any other week, we worked quite a lot on projects done in Agile. Nowadays there always seems to be a few of these going on, and new ones being planned. Our relationship with agile is interesting, as we are neither big or small agile house ourselves. We [...]
Read more »Week 20/2010
Weeknote about World Design Capital, Boingboing & patents, and some #uxlx too. This Saturday we held a workshop as a part of the ideation for the forthcoming World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. The theme was “Touchscapes: Toward the next urban ecology” as coined by our friend Adam Greenfield. He also gave a talk about Taking [...]
Read more »Week 19/2010
Back from UX Lx, Portugal 50% of Nordkapp were in the UX Lx conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Bruno and his friends really outdid themselves with this very well organized, world class conference with big name speakers, room trashing workshops and lots of afterski events. Thank you organizers and fellow conference goers! UX Lx is definitely [...]
Read more »Week 18/201
A short weeknote in anticipation of UX Lx and Helsinki WDC 2012 Forum workshop. This week we were mostly hard at work with current projects. Several things in finishing phases. Nothing too new there. Meeting and team room name competition winner was selected. Matti won and the names will be Valhalla, Asgard, Ragnarok, Odin and [...]
Read more »Week 17/2010
A week of presentations, events and blog posts This week’s weeknote will a be a bit shorter, because noteworthy things this week consisted mostly of presentations, events and blog posts. Or maybe because the weekend was dominated by Vappu, the Finnish Mayday, a country wide celebration of workers. This week Panu released two blog posts: [...]
Read more »Week 16/2010
Weeknote mostly about weeknotes Last week Ville V. from Arcticstartup.com asked me “what kinds of benefits, if any, you have had after you started the habit [of weeknotes]. ” Here’s some sort of an answer that I skipped giving him earlier, starting from the very beginning.
Read more »Week 15/2010
1/3 of us had something to do with Estonia, but hardly any of us saw each other. As said before, we are between offices. Our old office has some new use to it already, but the new one is still getting its finishing touches by the renovation crew. Well, actually we are waiting for the [...]
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