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Weeknote 204–205: We are back!

Hey ho! The summer is back and we're back in business. People came back from their holidays in waves during the last three weeks or so. And now we're back doing projects.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Weeknotes

First two of these weeks it was just me & Kate cleaning the office — continuing a task that Matti had started in the beginning of the summer. Kate is mostly to thank for this effort though. She cleaned all the team rooms, kitchen, office supplies and whatnot. I was mostly a hard labor robot, […]

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The Evolution of Client Services

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

Categories Design Strategy

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 […]

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Weeknote 167

Adam Greenfield joins Nordkapp.

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

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.

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Weeknote 162

Integration, human interaction and Nokia

by Teppo Kotirinta Principal Designer

Categories Business, Nordkapp, Weeknotes

Many mix-and-match teams are coming together on grouping a bunch of services into a bigger one. It’s fun to have meetings in the vibe of “here’s what my service can offer to your service, what will my service get back?”, and see how a behemoth is forming before your eyes.

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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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