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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? "
Mystery shopping, state of education and boom!
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
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.
To keep up with the tradition started last year, here's ten things we see meaningful in the year 2012. This time we've devided them into three overarching themes which will form their own interplay in the grand scheme of things. Enjoy, and do join the conversation at the comments below.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
THEME 1: Mobile Previously, we proposed year 2011 being the year of the mobile. It’s happening, albeit not quite as fast as we expected mostly due bad economy. Here is our take on 2012, divided into three themes —larger contexts, if you wish— we see as the most dominant catalysts for the change for the […]
Recently, ex-New York Times Design Director Khoi Vinh wrote a solid point of view on why he's moved on from client services to designing a product. While I agree on a lot of things he writes about, I think there a shades of gray here that deserve to be pointed out.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
There is no denying that design industry as a whole is in flux. Partly it’s the nature of the business—an eternal catchup with the most current “revolution”, fads, gadgets, technologies and their uses. In any case, as the internet technologies will get more and more commiditized and platformatized, there will be significantly less money to […]
Business cases, real estate and FAQ. For real.
by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer
Not in the web yet A concept project for “digital driven business consulting business” [sic] has been very intense the last weeks. When we started this project, we thought it would be quite straight forward research & concept case for a digital service. But what we actually found out was that this thing has not […]
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 […]
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 […]
As promised a while ago, we thought it would be useful to share the more long term thinking and work that goes into running and developing a design consultancy. In this series myself and other founding partners will be reflecting the past two and a half years, things we've learned and also about the future we all are quite excited about. We hope you enjoy this as much as we do.
by Sami Niemelä Creative Director, Nordkapp
At the moment of writing, we’ve been working on Nordkapp for exactly 950 days now, plus a few months of planning and preparations. Roughly a thousand days. Something that I am quite proud of is that apart from the daily craft of design, we’ve seen one massive economic downturn and still managed to actually keep […]
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