Gabbani brand identity

Fedriconi’s

Märsödal

New Sheridan hotel

Google is offering free phone calls <a href=”http://www.google.com/chat/voice/”>(yes really)</a>, free 1-800 (188 in finnish), free maps, free everything. Would it be time to start realizing that you can’t win every battle?

Transparency. There really isn’t transparency about Nokia software and possibilities. Concentrate on the manufacturing and don’t try to rule the software side independently too.

Compatibility. I used to have Nokias and the problem is that they just aren’t compatible enough with computer’s and software. Make the apps work.

Keypad? Really? 3d? Really? Forget about it.

I’ve been travelling a lot this summer and the thing is that Nokia has nearly managed to destroy it’s public image. From mr. Kallasvuo’s miserable press statements, to exploding phones, to layoffs and public scrutiny it’s been all downhill. Who’d want to get on board with that?

Basically we’re moving in to cloud computing era and how I depict it that everyone of us is carrying only one mobile device with us which we can then sync to any monitor (or device) around home or office. And this is the field you should move in dear board of Nokia. Call me.

If I’d have to present the idea of e-commerce to a client, this would be it.

Joshua Viertel: Slow Food USA

A very good talk, a very interesting subject.

Joshua Viertel: Slow Food USA from alldaybuffet on Vimeo.

Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce (TED)

Business talk superstar on point again

Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice

Another view to the “paradox of choice”

Have a good week.

This isn’t about the digital brief. It’s about a better brief for the post-digital world.

Stop communicating products and start making communication products. Useful entertaining or memorable, not interruptive, experiences. Create, don’t fill, media space.

“Media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals, and more and often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups.”

“This stuff is as mainstream as it can be. Google, the iPhone – these move the culture more than The Beatles did in the ’60’s. It’s shaping the human race.”

WordPress on Ipad

A new theme called Padpressed makes things nicer than ever.

WordPress on mobile

Warning! The video is booring but the WPTouch plugin has proved itself worthy. The plugin makes mobile layouts automatically look good and easy to use (try opening this blog with your iPhone or whatever modern mobile). However there are few alternatives we really like too the Carrington and WordPress mobile pack.

So do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser and device?. The common theme is making different layouts for all three major groups; traditional computers, mobile phones and iPads. However, this does not make the updating and managing a WordPress website any harder. The future is here!

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.” – Maeda

Good design is innovative, useful and aesthetic. Design makes the product (or website) understandable, at best self-explanatory. Good design saves time.

More emotions are better than less. Good design reduces time, establishes trust and connects emotions.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Use less, gain more.

Simplicity is achieved through complexity of thought and design. Simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. Good design is less, but better. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Good design should fulfill these expectations, whether a product, website or complex graphic identity. These thoughts are are from the great design leaders, Maeda, Hara and Rams.

“Art is an expression of an individual’s will to society at large, one whose origin is very much of a personal nature [...] Design, on the other hand, is basically not self-expression. Instead it originates in society. ” -Kenya Hara

Our design principles have always relied to these rules. However, simplicity does not necessarily mean minimalism.

We’re a interactive design company, which means the design principles are applied from the early on together with code and purpose. The interaction and fundamental understanding of all three is sort of crucial for us. Here’s a few good “simplicity” reads for our (web) design savvy readers:

5 Small Biz Web Design Trends to Watch

Reductionism in Web Design

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Here’s a few infographics to solve all your trouble meanwhile we’re gone. Enjoy the sun!

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I came across this in the 37signals’ book called Getting Real. It really got stuck to my head. We’ve never been too secretive about our ideas, maybe because our company offers brilliant executions. So whatever the company we’re presenting our ideas to might be, we wish you good luck in the competition if you choose to do it yourself.

The mathematics credit goes to mr. Sivers. Thank you

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