My cell phone stores personal and business contacts, my calendar, messages, notes, important applications, photos and video clips. What if I lost it and someone else found it, and decided to take a peek? He could browse through a big part of my life. Nokia’s new campaign Somebody Else’s Phone plays with that idea. It [...]
My previous posts around this topic have been personal comments on the process of bringing IA/IxD to a traditional mass marketing agency now building a digital team. The broader question of how to sell UXD inside and outside your own organization is a common topic in the community, and this recent article at UXmatters presents [...]
I just discovered now that at the end of September, Victor Lombardi wrote a great article about Concept Design – “a missing step in our design process.” I find it particularly interesting because of the differences I’ve experienced in my roles as “Concept Designer” in Finland and “Information Architect” here in Canada. My experience here [...]
I’ve always been very fond of Last.fm. Therefore it’s a bit of a surprise that it’s taken me this long to discover Idiomag that works with Last.fm, Pandora, iLike and other music communities to create personalized magazines based on the user’s playlists. It’s a kind of a search engine that finds online articles and content [...]
No more need to install an application to watch Joost, which has gone Flash Video and works in your browser. The move was expected, and makes accessing Joost somewhat quicker and easier than the application which, at least on my Mac, was a bit unreliable, even if the video quality was a bit higher thanks [...]
Conceptology is the personal blog of Karri Ojanen, an interaction design leader, usability consultant, creative director and digital marketing strategist. The posts cover a wide area from advertising to corporate culture, mobile technology to social media, and product design to design techniques. . Subscribe via RSS »
