It shouldn’t be about what you do, but actually doing it instead.

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 [...]

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10 things for 2011

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 [...]

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Weeknote 159-160

We're not on holidays yet, no no. Instead we cranked out a multitouch tablet TV concept and launched a service.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

The service has been in the making for quite a long now. It’s good to finally see it go online and start to pickup users. In fact, due to the unique nature of this service it has a potential to grab huge number of users from the general populace.

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