Hi there–you are browsing the old Nordkapp website. New one will be out soon!
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? "
In this week note: two victories for our startup clients, one shortlisting. And then some.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
In this week note: two victories for our startup clients, one shortlisting. And then some.
In this weeknote: moving & filling boxes, temporarily setting in a startup mode while anxiously waiting for the D-day. Project update, and setting up an outpost in Tokyo.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
It is the moving week this week. Everyone’s been busy packing and checking the new office and getting quite excited. Jukka & myself ran the first workshop and a floor renovation above our old office drove most of the office folk to the new space. Luckily only few of us had large scale design work […]
First ever Windows 8 UX Design Camp in Finland. Places going fast. Act now.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
We are organising the first ever Windows 8 UX Design Camp in Finland.
This design camp is on 2nd — 3rd of April 2013. We will go through the whole Windows 8 UX design framework: navigation, contracts, layout, branding, Snap Views, Live Tiles, Touch, Animation — you name it. Coming out of it you’ll be ready to tackle an app market which has reached 60 Million users in just few months after its launch.
"I'm coming back to our discussion last time about the reference rights to the project. When I asked for this, and you asked in return, what is the benefit for you, I couldn't yet answer properly. Now after giving it a careful consideration, I think it would be a good idea. Let me explain."
by Panu Korhonen Managing Director
From: panu@nordkapp.fi To: vice.president@company.fi Subject: Reference rights —- Hello, I’m happy to see that your service that we worked on together seems to be such a success! Please let us know, if there are any tweaks that you’d still need us to do. I’m coming back to our discussion last time about the reference rights […]
by Panu Korhonen Managing Director
Have you been swiping lately? I hope you have, because Nokia’s N9 is an extraordinarily beautiful and responsive product with The Swipe. But naturally there are a couple of things that I would’ve done differently.
A downloadable Windows Phone 7 Cheat Sheet to help mobile interaction designers.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
Hello, here’s a little something helpful for all you interaction designers out there — Windows Phone 7 Cheat Sheet! We did it here at Nordkapp to help us design some of our recent WP7 projects. It’s somewhat ashamedly based on Microsoft’s Design Guideline document(s). We’ve dug out only the important bits, added some other comments […]
We take a look at Windows Phone 7 from the user's perspective.
by Kate Whelan Interaction Designer
Following an internal ‘end user’ review of Windows Phone 7 a few weeks ago, there is a lot which we feel is ‘right’ about the platform and admirable to have accomplished in just under a year. On the flipside, the speed at which WP7 was developed has left some gaping holes and rushed, neglected features. […]
Thinking out loud about design getting cluttered with methodologies and dogmas trying to overexplain each other. Why can't we just get along?
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
During the past decade, the design industry has gone through a tremendous change. First the Internet changed everything, while making parts of the industry obsolete, and then design became the golden boy of business world and vice versa. The change in the environments where the craft was applied, and not to mention the evolution of […]
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 […]
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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