Hoy, who’s-your-daddy is back.
After having a second baby in the family, I’m back from some luxurious paternity leave time that Finland has to offer. Actually, I’ve been back for some time now, but getting back to grips with weeknotes is apparently a step harder now that one’s sleep time is drastically cut, again. Nevertheless, a small baby is always a quite cute thing to have around.
Things of National Importance
Good news in the national service design front. We won a cool, multi-year deal to be the selected service designers for a big “governmental organization”, let’s say. We and them are eager to get projects rolling already, but it seems this stuff will mostly get going next year. This is quite important, since the huge money this organization moves around is actually used for the benefit of the Finnish people, especially the ones who are not so well off. It’s good to be a part of doing something good.
We also managed to get ourselves into talks with another big national player. If everything goes well we might one day be improving a service or two you hate so much today. But this might take long to materialize. But I’m actually quite surprised how easily we got into this position in the first place. I guess since the big de facto players in this field are now so tarnished because of their constant failures that people feel it’s time to try something new for a change. I support this line of thought.
On-going and Upcoming
There’s good bunch of projects for Windows Phone 7 going on at the moment for various clients. And implementation support for a tablet case. About four TV related projects too.
There’s a really nice revolutionary project in the pipeline, starting in December and last for few months. This would have not national, but really international effect. The selected team is quite excited about this already, although it still needs a final seal of approval [pictured above].
2012 Interaction Awards
In case you missed it, Nordkapp and Urbanscale are shortlisted in the 2012 Interaction Awards with the Urbanflow thing. No matter what happens in the competition, it’s awesome to see us among companies like Frog, Nokia, R/GA, HUGE, Microsoft and so on. I’d like to congratulate the Umea Institute of Design, a great IXD school from our neighboring country Sweden, for being on the list too!
Photo credit: Sealed friendship by Andrea
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