Much of the projects have remained the same since last week and continue normally so I won’t go too much into those anymore. Something was also completed though. Namely that online news concept Matti was working on last week. He finished it with Sauli and it’s now wireframed, presented and accepted by the client. It’s actually pretty cool. For once a client has the balls to build something new in this space. Imagine all those cool news projects you’ve seen somebody hack up in the web – this is something like those but for an actual client.
Panu’s been wrapping up a concept and the presentation on a highly complex project. He feels that this is a starting point for truly integrated communication. He’s also been roadmapping how a TV station optimally appears in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th screen.
Petri’s still been adding final design bits to several web sites and services. He’s soon starting on a new service design project that groups together several sub-concepts done previously by various teams at Nordkapp. This is potentially an upside down way to do this but sometimes the realities of business make it so.
Me and Sami continued on that prototype and discussed at length about some of the limitations of prototyping itself. For example that it cannot really specify certain things clearly enough and that there’s still a need for a design doc to supplement a prototype. Sami also wrote a blog post about that Apple Tablet we were waiting for last week.
Ilkka has been making proposals like crazy, of which more about later in this weeknote.
The internal values & culture -workshop went down pretty well too. All hands in, and lots of talking and mapping of things to develop, and even a concrete list of action points.
Hiring
Just a reminder, our designer hunt is still ongoing. There’s two more days to apply. Applications have been pouring in during the last days and it’s going to be hard to select people for interviews. Me and Sami will be looking into that once the application deadline passes this weekend. You who have already applied, hang on tight for just a little longer!
Winter party
We held a winter party on Thursday. It was a nice turnaround of clients and some friends too. Very interesting discussions and lotsa laughter all night long. Organizing the party was quite a big group effort again as we like to have things pretty and cozy for the people who take the time to visit. Most of the work was done by Petri and especially the girls of Lillehammer, our sister company. They are just amazing with everything related to spaces. Big thanks to them! UPDATE: Photos in Flickr!
Prototype Friday and Pitches
It seems that we tried to take a bit too big initial bite with our Prototype Friday concept. We got suddenly invited to pitch for so many projects with so quick timetables that the Friday turned a bit too busy. Still Aki looked into geo location in mobile Safari and HSL’s public transportation route API. Let’s see what comes of that. To give others us a little more breathing time we decided to continue prototyping over the weekend. Everybody presents their stuff in the weekly meeting on Monday.
Those pitches are several big and visible media corp. projects and a cool interactive space related to Helsinki’s Design Capital 2012 project. Ilkka is running the show with these proposals and the rest of us help him with our knowledge. We are totally stoked to be involved in these. Let’s see what happens next week.
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