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We won a big pitch this week. A tight battle against good competition. We are getting more and more confident that what we are doing is the right thing at the right time.

Other projects continued normally from last week. A big cross-company team will organize itself for the aforementioned new project already next week.

IxDA Helsinki February

IxDA Helsinki February was held this thursday at Hammerkit, and organized by Miemo P., Henrik R., Ville T. and Norkapp’s Sami. Nice people and lively discussions on emotional design. Next IxDAs are at Sulake in March and Fjord in April.

Thesis

Petri finished his final thesis called ‘Design Thinking — How to leap from product and brand design into creative organization culture’. This study is a part of International Design Business Management training by TAIK & HSE and Lahti University on Technology. Nordkapp congratulates Petri immensely!

Holidays, sickness and upcoming presentation

It’s winter holiday season in Finland. Ilkka and Panu are currently enjoying theirs.

Sadly Aki got a bug and has been quite sick this week. We all hope he gets better soon (and doesn’t try to work while on sick leave!).

I’m going to have my holiday next week, so I ‘m not going to have much to talk about after that. But the week after next I will, as I’m presenting about urban screens at an event about embedded design and Helsinki Design Capital 2012. The content for that presentation will be worked out as a team of Sauli, Sami and me, as we all seem to have so much to say about this topic.

Hiring

The meticulous hiring process continued with few more interviews. Few more to come and then we should be able to start deciding things.

Space

We might have found our new space. More than double the current size and much more opportunities for group work. Matti & Sami went to check it out on Friday. It would need some interior design but that’s not a problem for our posse. Let’s see what we decide about that.

UX Lx: User Experience Lisbon

It seems that this year a good bunch of Nordkappers is heading to UX Lx conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

The programme seems very good as it already includes many industry heavy weights like Dan Saffer and Jared Spool, not to mention some legends like Don Norman and Jakob Nielsen TBA.

What’s even cooler, is that our Sami is giving a presentation on the first day called “Designing Agile Interactions”. Like that wasn’t enough, our Panu is giving another presentation on the third day called “Interaction Design Leadership: Lessons Learned”.

It seems that it’s going to be an amazing conference. We hope to see as many of you there as possible!