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? "
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.
So, it's been a long time coming but finally, yesterday we got a new website out for the world to see. Here's some thoughts about the process and why and how we did what we did.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
First, I feel we’ve never really had a proper site out until now. This is actually a website version number four of which three got released, and one got canned on being too complex to do *well enough*. We got a pretty flying start three years ago and pretty much had just an address with [...]
Television is changing. Internet is increasingly used for distributing TV content. People can watch TV stations live over the internet, and they can view vast amounts of video clips on the web sites of TV channels and, of course, on all the social media sites. Television is becoming interactive.
by Panu Korhonen Managing Director
The future of TV Television is changing. Internet is increasingly used for distributing TV content. People can watch TV stations live over the internet, and they can view vast amounts of video clips on the web sites of TV channels and, of course, on all the social media sites. Television is becoming interactive. Still, people [...]
The most intriguing thing about multitouch tablets is that they really do represent a notable paradigm shift in interaction.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
As you’ve probably seen from the Youtube videos, the iPad/iPhone direct interaction is as close to natural interface as one gets. The absense of a pointing device removes an extra step from between the user and the interface, and multitouch naturally adds to this in a very exciting way. In this article I’ll go through [...]
We are proud to announce our participation in World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Ideas Forum, under the theme Touchscapes; Toward the next urban ecology.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
The theme of WDC Helsinki 2012 is Open City, and in similar vain the workshops on May 22nd are voluntary, free-for-all events. Their aim is to join the organizers to brainstorm, discuss and plan what the year 2012 as World Design Capital can mean and be for everybody.
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