Archive for ‘Interaction Design’
TAP THE TV — Online TV concept for multitouch tablets
Television is changing. Internet is increasingly used for distributing TV content. People can watch TV stations live over the internet, and they can view vast amounts of video clips on the web sites of TV channels and, of course, on all the social media sites. Television is becoming interactive.
Read more »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 »UX leadership insight: wrap-up
For future reference and for easier reading through the whole “UX leadership insights” series, I’ll compile the links to individual articles here.
Read more »UX leadership insight #15: You
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) This is my last post in this series of design leadership. I have saved the most personal one as last.
Read more »UX leadership insight #14: Tacit knowledge
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) In a large project, there will always be some churn in the design team. Some designers will eventually leave, and there will be some new members that join the team during the process. Sometimes, when there are schedule pressure in the project, you can try to [...]
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 »UX leadership insight #13: Bell curve
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) As with many other natural phenomena, the skills of designers follow a bell curve. There are always a few super productive ones, lots of in-between, and then some at the tail of the curve. Factors that determine the productivity and quality of design work include training, [...]
Read more »UX leadership insight #12: The space between
(See my earlier posts for introduction to the series.) How should the teams for design be built? There are thousands of handbooks how to build effective teams, so let’s not get into the generics. There’s one specific aspect of design teamwork that I would like to emphasize, and that is the collaboration of interaction design [...]
Read more »Urban Screens Presentation
Forum Virium held a nice event this morning. It was about service design for urban media and embedded design, especially in relation to the recent selection of Helsinki as the World Design Capital 2012. I presented about urban screens. My presentation is attached here with English notes. Urban Screens View more presentations from Teppo Kotirinta. [...]
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