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Time flies when you’re finishing projects and waiting for Santa Claus. And let’s hear it for 2012, which starts in a secretive mood.

Late last year that revolutionary project got that seal of approval go-ahead and Akseli & Matti have been working hard on that. They spend much of their time at the client’s place to be close to the action. This is not a common way we do design, but sometimes it is just easiest and fastest that way. Since we are very flexible in general, this is doable for us as well. Sadly there’s nothing we can say about this project, really. Except that the feedback in design reviews and otherwise have been really good.

Another project has reached a high-level review stage as well. This has included quite a lot of travel, especially for Sami. The project continues through Spring most likely. Not much we can say about this either, except, that feedback has again been super good.

Elsewhere, a WP7 application for another client was designed quickly, and is also in the review pipeline. This should be released some time quite soon.

Late last year also saw the release of the second platform of a tablet thing done by Fabian and Teppo. These both gained an apparently immediate adoption by the users of the respective service. Regarding these; a good quote for your next design-sales presentation from a user was:

“Because of this app, I will NOT end my subscription as I was planning, but stay as a user!”

A text book example of the importance and benefit of good design, huh?

So all and all, there’s been quite a lot of mobile application work recently. But we haven’t forgotten about mobile websites either. In fact, there’s several on-going discussions about high-class mobile websites for clients who absolutely need to target a larger audience, or who have tight timelines where app development is simply not feasible.

A bit of a different case is a medical web service project for professional health care. This non public service is targeted for the Nordic countries. Team here is mostly Jukka, Panu and Aki.

Remember that huge public entity we won a multi year deal with? Those projects are slowly starting to start [sic]. Possibilities here are interesting as there’s so much elements outside of screens. There’s floor plans and architecture involved, for example. Instead of starting designing straight away, we plan to see how we could help the client first sort out their internal processes for maintaining their existing services. Then progress to processes for developing new services, and only then actually to developing those services. But let’s see how this goes, we have only begun to scratch the surface of this huge entity.

By the way, if you missed Sami’s recent post 10 things for 2012, please continue to reading that, and you’ll know what you’re supposed to be doing this year. :)

Until next time.

Photo credit: Blues by Panu