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on 10.11.2010

Weeknote 170

Site awards and ranting about half-assed web development, eBooks.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

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?

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on 10.06.2010

Week 149

Weeknote about new developments in Agile process, services getting nearer to launch and some quickies.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

A client is very interested in deepening cooperation with us. This development looks very promising going forward. It seems that Nordkapp’s honest, open and user centered approach on concept and service design is much needed “breath of fresh air” for big organizations as well. Making development based only on technical decisions or hand-waving just won’t do it anymore.

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on 03.06.2010

Week 148

Weeknote about problems in Agile.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

Last week, like any other week, we worked quite a lot on projects done in Agile. Nowadays there always seems to be a few of these going on, and new ones being planned.

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on 03.05.2010

Week 143

A week of presentations, events and blog posts

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

This week’s weeknote will a be a bit shorter, because noteworthy things this week consisted mostly of presentations, events and blog posts. Or maybe because the weekend was dominated by Vappu, the Finnish Mayday, a country wide celebration of workers.

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