Posts tagged as social computing

The Weekly a-List

Kevin Wong by Kevin Wong, posted November 3rd, 2008
categorized under a-list, inspiration | Comments

Apologies for getting this out so late! It has been a busy Monday morning. At least there’s still the rest of the week to enjoy!

Don’t forget, if you haven’t already, go out and vote! Make sure you know where you’re polling place is and get there [most likely] between 7am and 8pm. Cheers.

and here we go…

Red Teases Future in DSMC
Red is about to change the game for Digital Still & Motion Cameras (DSMC). You guys thought the Canon 5D MkII was hot. We’ll see after Nov 13th.

Touchscreen Voting Machine Not Fit For Purpose?
Just make sure that if you encounter one of these, double check your answer. Triple check. You just never know whether or not if your vote switched.

Social Interaction Design Primer
Getting into social design? Johnny Holland has an interesting point of view on the differences between designing for user needs vs designing for user interests. The analogies used are worth thinking about.

Nokia Open Studio: Exploratory Design Research
We’re always excited to see more examples of how large companies are investing a great deal in advancing their methods to uncovering user needs. The output of this work is always inspiring.

Food Pyramid Lunch Box
Absolutely beautiful. Can we make this mandatory for all school to provide?

Visualizing How The World Views US Elections
It’s interesting because we’re so used to seeing how we view our elections. Instead, you consider how this impacts a global scale. Another food for thought: how much of this is represented by Americans with ties to these other countries? What are the implications?

Johnny Lee + YouTube = Future of Prototyping
The power of social media cultivates a world of sharing. Learn more on how Johnny Lee and many others are paving the way on helping the world become inventors again.

Attending the Forrester Consumer Forum 2008

Kevin Wong by Kevin Wong, posted October 20th, 2008
categorized under artefact, events, mobile, research, trends | Comments

Folks, we will be attending the Forrester Consumer Forum 2008 next week, Tuesday October 28th until the 29th. As we finalize our prepartions here in the studio, we wanted to give you a heads up that we will be live blogging during each presentation. It’s going to be an exciting event with lots of great insights and demonstrations of what’s going to happen in the future.

If you want to learn more about the event, you can visit the Forrester site. The basic premise is on social computing and mobile technology. These are two hot topics that we’ve had the pleasure to research and design solutions for our clients.  This will be a great opportunity to build on our learnings and discuss with other brilliant minds the kinds of things we went through to innovate in a crowded market.

So check back in with us! I will be following the consumer research track, while Agnieszka focuses on product strategy and processes.

We’ll be uploading photos along the way on our Flickr account, dropping tweets on our favorite blue bird application, and serving up fresh entries here on the blog with commentary on what we’re hearing.

For those of you who are attending, add us, follow up, friends us, or all of the above! See you there!