Thanks for visiting our brand spanking new website. This is a work in progress, an experiment without a version number. Things will change and evolve over time once we figure out what we want to do with this thing. One thing’s for sure—calling this a beta would be just lazy. We don’t wanna be like that, do we? "
Crunching projects and fighting over kinetic scrolling in the Nokia vs. Apple lawsuit.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
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.
Future of digital culture and e-commerce
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
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.
Critical commentary, yet belief in Connected Smart Cities in the EU.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
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.
Site awards and ranting about half-assed web development, eBooks.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
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?
Got our new website up and rocking, have party pics!
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
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.
We are excited to announce that author and ex-Nokia head of design direction Adam Greenfield joins us as an advisor on research and development for urban interfaces and services.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
At the same time, Nordkapp joins the Urbanscale network, an international venture of thinkers and doers dealing with the emerging practice of design for networked cities and citizens. Our role in this network is to provide expertise on visual and interaction design for interfaces and services of all sizes. The Urbanscale network will launch officially [...]
Adam Greenfield joins Nordkapp.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
We are excited to announce that author and ex-Nokia head of design direction Adam Greenfield joins us as an advisor on research and development for urban interfaces and services.
Nature and mobile apps.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
Last week I mentioned that we had some available designer time. Well, not so much anymore. Instead there’s quite interesting new projects underway again.
Progress in management, some designer brainpower available.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
Last two weeknotes [1, 2] have been filled with project information. Let’s have this one be a little bit shorter for a change. The new management team has been busy. They’ve been building great new planning docs, assigning budgets, implemented a new hour reporting system and other stuff. All these things make us more focused [...]
Quick weeknote about UX Marathon and design thinking for the Finnish public sector.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
A new addition to our weeknotes is Tia, our recently hired new interaction designer. She’s been excited about upcoming new challenges, especially our own urban screens project which is again going full speed ahead with a possible joint venture. Some really cool stuff happening soon!
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