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Weeknote 172

Future of digital culture and e-commerce

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

Most interesting thing during the week was Tia and Sami presenting at the Future of digital culture and e-commerce (Kulttuurikaupan digitaalinen tulevaisuus) seminar at Dubrovnik. People present were influencers, doers & makers and journalists. Some of these included Anders Sjöman from Voddler and Anni Ronkainen from Google.

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Weeknote 171

Critical commentary, yet belief in Connected Smart Cities in the EU.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

Connected Smart Cities conference focused on the different European strategies of how to become a Smart City. Distinguished, high level speakers from across Europe, including Mayors, Directors and experts, provided perspectives on issues relevant to sustainable and open Smart Cities and European Innovation Strategies.

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Weeknote 170

Site awards and ranting about half-assed web development, eBooks.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

Generally, our aim is to spec things 95%. Therefore, some room for final polish is actually left for the dev team, on-the-fly prototyping and especially the front-end people. A great coder shines here and makes or breaks the UI and the UX. Now, if this guy is opening PSD’s in GIMP, is it a sign of passionate effort to make the best UI possible?

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Weeknote 169

Got our new website up and rocking, have party pics!

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

In other words, last week saw the launch of our new website. A modern one page approach with some overlaid navigation and project descriptions. The new site got immediately a good response in the Twitterverse.

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Release notes: An experiment in form and function

So, it's been a long time coming but finally, yesterday we got a new website out for the world to see. Here's some thoughts about the process and why and how we did what we did.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

First, I feel we’ve never really had a proper site out until now. This is actually a website version number four of which three got released, and one got canned on being too complex to do *well enough*. We got a pretty flying start three years ago and pretty much had just an address with […]

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