We are all back from holidays and Topiikki has launched. Week 35 was my comeback week from summer holidays. Most of the other busy bees have been back at work for weeks already and producing design for all sorts of projects. Much of which I now know nothing about. Anyway, a special mention for summer [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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: [...]
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For future reference and for easier reading through the whole “UX leadership insights” series, I’ll compile the links to individual articles here. UX leadership insight #1: Clear design drivers UX leadership insight #2: Vague or specific? UX leadership insight #3: Pick your battles UX leadership insight #4: Appropriately radical UX leadership insight #5: Split it [...]
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(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. The last design leadership insight is about you. Simply, take care of yourself. Most of the time you need to worry about other people: users, designers, [...]
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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. Background This all started with us having our weekly [...]
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(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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Our new designer arrives just before Easter break and we discuss Bloomberg. Our new Visual Designer is Fabian Danielsen. Surprisingly, he has recently been working for ad agencies, but has been very eager to get into interactive design business (again). We here at Nordkapp welcome him warmly to the team! The work will be top [...]
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