Published inFuture is Present Tense·Mar 29, 2021How to define quality of design?Last week we had here at Nordkapp an interesting deep dive session and conversation led by my brilliant colleague Shakti. One side track made me analyse deeper the definition of quality in the context of design. The conversation started when we were talking about design systems and how UI design…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Mar 6, 2020Connecting futures research with the present: exploring organisation’s operations on three time perspectives“Decision-making without futures research is referred to as acting without freedom, as one cannot be aware of the possible alternatives for action, and thus doesn’t have true freedom of choice.” This quote from futurist Osmo Kuusi (1999) sums up why every one at an organisation should be interested in exploring…6 min read6 min read
Published inFuture is Present Tense·Mar 27, 2019Embracing emergence in innovation processEmergence is a crucial part of systems thinking, and has that way come to boost our design and innovation processes. It’s a framework for seeing interrelationships of systems parts rather than individual things alone. …Design Thinking5 min readDesign Thinking5 min read
Published inFuture is Present Tense·Feb 28, 2018Designing organisations — Thoughts from Interaction 18 conferenceI attended Interaction 18 in Lyon, France. My colleague Sami already wrote quite a nice post about the conference and its interesting speakers, so with all the buzz in my head, I decided to narrow it down to one specific theme: designing organisations. For me the most interesting part of…Leadership5 min readLeadership5 min read
Published inFuture is Present Tense·Aug 10, 2017A Red Dot for Nordkapp with BedditThe results for Red Dot international product and communication design awards are out. We are thrilled to announce the jury awarded our user interface design for Beddit Sleep Tracker this year, emphasising its high design quality and creative achievement. Beddit was a Finnish start up that was acquired by Apple…Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Published inFuture is Present Tense·Jun 7, 2017Sprinkling design thinking into elementary schoolIt’s eight o’clock in the morning. I walk towards an elementary school building in snowy Helsinki and memories start coming back to my mind. Like all Finns I too spent nine years of elementary school in a building like this. Silent hallways, small chairs and a feeling that one need…Education5 min readEducation5 min read
