Weeknote 236

Boom! We make future happen. This week’s weeknote is self-congratulatory.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We were awakened to a realisation of our current line-up of projects which are simply awesome.

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Weeknote 235

Connected TV, Winning and Bi-Winning at #grandone

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

God damn, weeks just fly when you’re waiting for the Spring and dodging the snowy comebacks of the Winter. Luckily we’re not the only ones. But let’s give it a go again.

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Weeknote 231

Let's think if we could design a rival for Apple TV, and recap a recent one-upping of a Google patent attempt.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

A quick calculation reveals that we’ve worked on more than ten (!) different TV projects within last few months. These include online & company strategies, applications, online TV, video-on-demand, web services, startup sparring and even a concept for an interactive TV show.

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Weeknote 230

Vuoden Huiput 2011, Grand One 2012, Flurry & SXSW, mobile applications, future and copycats recap.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

We have stuff in competitions again and we discuss some recent incidents of people copying our website.

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Weeknote 227

Floating fish, design reviews, service design and the future of television.

by Kate Whelan Interaction Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Last week Tia and Kate hopped over to Berlin to present research and participate in a client workshop for an ongoing project. The research period was five weeks long and the main challenge lay in condensing the information gathered from ten interviews (which spawned twenty hours of recordings and 150 pages of transcript).

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Weeknote 226

Interaction12, Invisible City, Cut & Paste, WDC, FastCompany.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Work has been continuing normally, but the end of this week is a busy one as we participate in Interaction12, Invisible City and Cut & Paste Helsinki. We also got featured on Fast Company.

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Weeknote 225

Mystery shopping, state of education and boom!

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Last week I was in the Metropolia Polytechnic to spar students of an innovation course. Another person with me from the “real life entrepeneur / business side” was Perttu Tolvanen, an independent CMS expert and consultant.

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Weeknote 224

Lots of research interviews, tablets and some augmented reality.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Women of Nordkapp Kate and Tia have been interviewing people for one very secret project recently. According to them they’ve had a good time sitting in cafés and talking to some very enthusiastic people. Sometimes design work rules, huh? Kate says that Tia has made research interviews into an artform, and that she’s been learning [...]

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Weeknote 223

Start of the year weeknote summarizes a bunch of mobile and other things completed or started in the turn of the year.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

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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.

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Weeknote 217-218

Things related to #wp7 #tablets #mobile #internetofthings #apps4finland #pelotoncamp

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

Visited Apps4Finland, shipped some mobile & tablet apps and participated in some competitions, sort of.

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