Weeknote #677: Island in the Sun
A long-awaited chance to meet colleagues face to face at the Nordkapp Summer Party 2020!
Last Friday we finally got the chance to meet most of our colleagues face to face again at Nordkapp’s Summer Party! This year we decided to leave out the exotic activities and just hang around with friends in a relaxing atmosphere. We travelled by boat to the beautiful island of Herrö in Espoo archipelago. The weather was just superb, and the sea was still warm enough for swimming. Some of us went for a small hike and climbed to the observation tower on the highest part of the island. We tried out also metal detecting on the beach with courtesy of Matti. No hidden treasures this time though.
When the remote work is becoming a new normal in the current situation, it feels very special to meet co-workers face to face and have a nice evening outside with good food, music and company. The remote meetings are usually straight to the point without too much chit-chatting, so hanging around with colleagues without any agenda was really welcomed.
The New Website
Satu, Liam, Joska, Sami, and Juhani have been busy crunching the design and content for the new Nordkapp website in just a couple of weeks! The new site will bring more clarity to our offering and improve site structure in addition to new fresh visuals. It will be live pretty soon, so stay tuned!
Masked Designers
Our company provided us with re-usable anti-viral masks from Senscommon for safe commuting. The selected colour is, of course, the Nordkapp’s all-time favourite: black!
It’s a Boy!
Our colleague Liam wasn’t able to join the party on Friday because of a very good reason: his first child was born! We wish the baby and the parents the warmest congratulations!
What else happened this week?
Mika L is supporting the client to get a new direction for their digital channel strategy
Valeria has been focusing on learning to communicate more efficiently.
Teppo has been tackling challenges of running remote user tests on mobile devices.
Eero is wrapping up an interesting project and building new features for another one.
Shakti’s continued a relaxed working week winding up a project, working on a script for a new app onboarding and bonus — running a 3-week remote apprenticeship program with a group of design students at Srishti school of art, design, and technology in India.
Monika is happy to have a routine back after summer travels and this week was spent on internal development work clarifying expectations and hopefully enabling growth.
This week Sami has been deep in thinking and delivery mode. The matrix is slowly revealing itself and we’ll proceed to design the pill. What colour will it be?
Kenneth has been reflecting on his work and personal development goals for the fall season.’
Panu found out that managing a Keynote template is much more limited than in PowerPoint.
Liam became a dad!!!
Topias is in full work mode after relaxing holidays.
Five things we read this week:
- Why linear roadmaps are misleading from Pavel A. Samsonov — Recognizing the decision points where future becomes more uncertain.
- Cashing in on Covid from David Fuller — How to make sense of the world in the midst of conspiracies, confusion and Covid-19.
- Becoming a Design Manager from UX Collective — Understanding the real motivations behind a designer’s desire of becoming a leader.
- Prototyping new models of production from Andrew Edman, Clear Design Lab — Designing, developing and producing by individuals and communities.
- 2020 Tech Trends Report from Future Today Institute— Futurist predictions for 2020.
Weeknotes are what happened at our studio this week. This week’s weeknote was curated by Topias Teirikko.
Topias is a Senior Designer at Nordkapp, who is doing fake commuting by bike in the mornings and returning home for remote work.
