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John Oswald
May 1, 2013
The BBC has just launched a beta 'Knowledge and Learning'. But what could we learn from sites like Quartz about how to do more interesting things with content?
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Matti Keltanen
April 19, 2013
Fjord London finds out what happens when you break traditional industry barriers and bring together people across verticals to work hard on a complex problem
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Mox Soini
April 19, 2013
Disruption by competitor can be very dangerous to a business. It can also be equally dangerous if a business itself ends up causing disruption that robs the company all of its profits. But in capable hands, disrupting your own business can mean strong long-term profit, growth and even result in a lead position over the competitors that they find hard to catch up.
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Abbie Walsh
April 10, 2013
Why does pencil on paper make a deeper connection? This Easter, I was reminded just how much we’ve come to rely on the digital services at our fingertips and how much we’re missing if we’re not creating real things too.
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Mark Curtis
April 8, 2013
Mobile phones used to be all about connecting with people. The address book was at the very heart of the devices, and phones were mainly used for calling and texting. Then Apple ushered in the App economy, merging the internet with mobile in a powerful way. It led to apps residing on the top level of smartphones, and that's been the standard for the last five years.
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Abbie Walsh
April 3, 2013
How global changes stopped an industry in its tracks and why hindsight should play a larger part in our design decisions.
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David Holland
March 29, 2013
You might have come across this news headline recently: Man reportedly outsources his own job to China, watches cat videos. Although a brave attempt to game the system and buy back some free time, his boss didn’t seem to agree. While life isn’t quite the Jetson-esque utopia you might have dreamed of, there are many digital . . .
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Abbie Walsh
March 25, 2013
I'm just back from a two-week holiday and am not only lamenting the end of glorious Australian sunshine but also the subsequent dip in my NikeFuel count. The drop in the score I'm clocking up on my Fuelband doesn't take a data analyst to understand. I've gone from daily morning runs followed by a full schedule of keeping a two year old entertained, to a more sedentary office-bound routine topped up with as much exercise as can be squeezed in.
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Daniel Harris
March 20, 2013
I recently attended an online and retail fashion hackathon, organised by Seedcamp. In attendance were a number of retailers including ASOS and NetAPorter, who were happy to help teams use their APIs and data.
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Abbie Walsh
March 5, 2013
A recent School of Life event at Conway Hall, saw Richard Sennett talking to Alice Rawsthorn about his new book - Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation. The book acted as an anchor for the meandering topics discussed over the next 90 minutes, during which time Sennett, quizzed by Rawsthorn, made the argument for cooperation and against solidarity.
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Mark Curtis
March 4, 2013
This year’s show promised a ‘new mobile horizon’ and with a reported 72,000+ attendees and an exhibition space of more than 1 million square meters, it is clear that mobile is the future. With many companies exhibiting there for the first time – Ford and Go Pro being notable examples – and a shift towards service-led offerings, the show could soon easily be renamed the Digital World Congress.
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Sara Munday
March 1, 2013
Like thousands of other tech enthusiasts from across the globe, an international posse of Fjordians will descend on Austin, Texas next week to experience the brilliance and the chaos that is SXSW. Navigating the incredible number of great sessions (not to mention parties) taking place across the Interactive Festival is a daunting task, but we’ve . . .
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Olof Schybergson
February 26, 2013
This year's show promised us a new mobile horizon and whether it’s the buzz around Mozilla’s Firefox OS, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 or Ericsson’s web communication demo, they all point to a shift that we’re calling ‘the new complexity’.
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Andy Goodman
February 20, 2013
Way back in 2011 Fjord participated in an EU contest along with a consortium of other organisations to win a project around Smart Materials related to healthcare, we entitled the project Light Touch Matters. Smart materials are substances which when you apply pressure create a small electrical current. By combining this with OLED display technology we are able create an almost limitless range of new applications for information display, learning, safety, healthcare, entertainment and advertising.
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Matti Keltanen
February 20, 2013
We recently took on the question "What role does data play in service design?". Many parts to the answer are already embedded in our work, such as success measures, service metrics and analytics as well as some KPIs, but felt it was worth asking the question again.
