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Living Off Craigslist

Have you ever tried living entirely off Craiglist?


Recipe for Success: Keep Up Your Connection to the Ground Level

Jyri Engeström, Product Manager at Google who found his way there by co-developing the microblogging service Jaiku and selling it to the search engine giant in 2007, says that without a hands on approach to its business on all levels of management, the company will lose its touch with the reality. Sounds rather obvious, doesn’t [...]


That was a great Idea!

I had a great time at Idea09 (and from what I’m hearing, so did everybody else). Thanks to the organizers and all the fabulous people – new and old friends – that I got to meet. I tweeted and took pictures and notes and drew sketches during the conference, and I’m working on putting together [...]


Social interactions are not designed

Earlier this week I linked to Adrian Chan’s great article on social interaction design in Johnny Holland Magazine. It made me think of a few points that I think are worth a post in my own blog. First I think the term ‘social interaction design’ is misleading. Of course, in our context, in this industry, [...]


More ways to go green

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 [...]


About Conceptology

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 »