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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 could be done on it. One could select a more traditional route or go completely crazy with it. The perfect solution is probably often somewhere in between. It’s inspiring to see so much effort from the tech and design communities being put into developing platforms and best practices for these devices. This sort of innovation was probably happening when computers were being invented, and has always been going on, but nowadays it seems to be happening at shorter and shorter time intervals. Sharing is a great thing.

In fact, the iPad and the communities around it remind me of the often quoted words here at Nordkapp:

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
—William Gibson

Whatever we design can implemented and used immediately by people, which is extremely refreshing for future-looking designers like us.

In The Feed

If you haven’t noticed yet, our blog also features a section called “In The Feed“, which includes a flow of interesting items from the internets our people have deemed noteworthy enough to be added to Tumblr. In The Feed is present in the blog homepage and also now on its own URL.

This section will give you a good and near constant flow of hot topics in Interaction Design, Data Visualization, Cities, Design, AR, Management, UI innovations and what not. Anything even distantly related to the interesting world of digital communication and interaction. Check it out if you want to be entertained or inspired.

Weeknote break coming up?

I’m thinking I need a summer break from writing weeknotes soon. I’m currently extra busy on my freetime and work hours are pretty much minute-to-minute all client work. Therefore weeknotes are sadly getting a bit long in the tooth. (As you can see from the title, I’ve already taken a shortcut of grouping two weeks in to one weeknote.)

Besides, the Finnish summer is finally starting. During summer companies and projects go in to slow-mode. This slowing down normally starts after Mid Summer, which is next week’s weekend. You know, Mid Summer is a huge thing in Finland as we’ve suffered a long winter before that. Often that’s when peoples’ holidays also start. Some of Nordkappers escape to the nature then, too. There might not be too much to write about and I might want to be on a beach.

In effect, don’t expect too much from the weeknotes from the weeks to come. But I might stick around for some more weeks, before chillin’ over summer. Let’s see.

Take it easy in the meantime, dudes and dudettes.