Canada’s public broadcaster CBC has joined the green forces, interestingly teaming up with Cisco (Canada) to launch a national environmental movement, One Million Acts of Green (OMAoG) (why do I hear Dr. Evil’s voice in my head every time someone starts to say “one million…”) The OMAoG site joins the list of other, similar Canadian [...]
Quite a brilliant, benchmark article by Adrian Chan in Johnny Holland Magazine today! Writing about social interaction design, Adrian states that “If the task of conventional software is to provide successful interactions, to inform the user that his actions worked, then what of social media? … Social interaction design works by respecting the psychological and [...]
It’s winter time in Ontario again (thanks to that, I didn’t miss my brunch today), and tomorrow marks the first day in my new job as Sr. Information Architect at Organic here in Toronto. Though the time I spent at Publicis Modem as IA, helping to build an agile digital team at the traditional mass [...]
Here’s a refreshing note on social media from Khoi Vinh. I can very well relate to what Khoi says, but I also like what people say in the comments…
Inspired by this quite old illustration I saw on Flickr, created by Peter Forret, I wanted to create my own version of it. In my version, I added or changed a few examples, and changed the structure of the illustration a bit, but it’s still very similar to Peter’s original. I took out the title [...]
The Economist gave one of its Innovation Awards this year to Matti Makkonen, the Finnish telecom consultant who’s the inventor of SMS and a former EVP of Sonera. Nokia received the Chairman’s Special Award for Corporate Use of Innovation, and Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, the developers of YouTube, got the Award for Consumer Products. [...]
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 »
