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10 things for 2011

As we're only a few hours away from leaving the first decade of 00's behind, the predictions for the following year are all over the internet already. Following last year's predictions, here's some things to expect in the year 2011.

by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp

UPDATE: now including also the missing fifth piece. Thanks for our reader @sebastianwaters for pointing this out. 1. Connected, wearable electronics hit mainstream On wearable electronics Nike+ was just the beginning. For example, see Mutewatch, Analarm or MMNML‘s incredibly successful Kickstarter project turning iPod Nanos into multitouch wristwatches. The next step is someone making these […]

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Why hire a design consultancy?

A story about the daily life in a design consultancy, and when you should consider hiring one.

by Panu Korhonen Managing Director

Why hire a design consultancy? Designers in consultancies are always into something new. Their key competences are to acquire, digest, combine, create, and deliver new. People, who love this and are good at this, work in design consultancies like Nordkapp. Therefore, hiring a design consultancy is a good choice when you create new business, new producs or services, new releases – anything new.

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Weeknote 173+174+175

Crunching projects and fighting over kinetic scrolling in the Nokia vs. Apple lawsuit.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

We are sort of caught up (again) in a mobile patent lawsuit between the Apple and Nokia. You see, our MD Panu Korhonen used to work in Nokia UX for 15 years and has quite major patents in touch UIs.

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