By Laura Richardson - November 29, 2011
You're never too old to make your mind agile, flexible, self-aware, and able to see patterns and connections that more rigid minds miss.
Javier Hans is on a mission to change how the world's youth think about creativity and innovation. At nine, he founded Inventors Without Borders. At 15, he was the winner and youngest entrant of the Invent Your World Challenge sponsored by Ashoka. Most recently, Javier spoke at TEDx Taipei, where he unveiled his immersive role-playing game, Inventors Village.
By David Sherwin - November 8, 2011
The above slides are from a talk called "Information Architecture: Making Information More Accessible and Useful," which I gave at the HOW Interactive Conference in San Francisco on November 2nd. The conference was a three-day event focused on helping designers with a background in graphic design make the leap to creating websites, apps, and interactive experiences.
By Sabrina Sandalo - September 26, 2011
Telco 2.0 is a London-based research firm focusing on innovative business models for the telco industry. It cultivates a strong network of decision-makers from communicatons, media, banking, and technology and runs several industry conferences. frog is an official sponsor of this year’s Telco 2.0 New Digital Economics conference, M-Commerce 2.0: How Personal Data Will Revolutionize Customer Engagement.
By Sabrina Sandalo - September 9, 2011
This November 2nd, frog Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston will explore the transition to third wave of computing at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco.
By Andrea Bebber - August 24, 2011
Urban environments hold many promises for a better future, simply because of their massive scale and density. Cities generate jobs and incomes, they can provide education, healthcare and other services more efficiently than less densely settled areas, thus giving more opportunity for people to climb the steep social ladder.
By Kristina Loring - August 18, 2011
Summer is coming to a close, but the season for geeking out has just begun. It’s that time of year when the Technorati reveal their latest theories on the impact of social media, technology, and design on culture and business. That’s right: SXSW Interactive has published this year’s ‘panel picker’ submissions, asking the Internet to vote on their favorite panels and presentations they hope to see at the conference in March.
By Andrea Bebber - June 13, 2011
In the age of information overload and data glut, where Americans consume about 1.3 trillion hours worth of data on a yearly basis, it is crucial for the field of interaction design to evolve. The Frontiers of Interaction conference in Italy has become the Mecca for interaction designers to converge and explore the latest trends and challenges in their field. The event serves as an inspirational hub for thinkers and doers alike and brings together innovators, academics, early adopters and loyal geeks.
By Various frogs - May 24, 2011
Welcoming a Unicorn Theatre jammed with 250 TEDsters old and new, host and TED's European director Bruno Giussani promised "possibly one of the most eclectic programs we've ever put together" on Wednesday night in London at the spring TED Salon. The Salon was hosted in collaboration with TEDGlobal partner frog. And eclectic it was, covering design, education, synthetic life, contemporary art, flowers, child marriage, and the sound of space, among others, under the theme "Beauty/Complexity".
"Grace and magnificence often hide intricate realities, while elaborate systems frequently express themselves in captivating and comely ways", Giussani said laying the stage for the two-sessions event.
By Elizabeth Roche - May 10, 2011
Social media amulets in Cairo
Aboard this Air Egypt flight from Cairo to Munich, I am grateful for five hours in limbo before being deposited back into Western life. After a week on the ground in Cairo with Jan Chipchase and other colleagues from frog design, I have a sharpened understanding of how little I know about this region. Anyone who has spent time talking to people on both sides of "the line" in Egypt is struck by the monumental gap between those found in the poor, illiterate corners of the city and the fountain-ringed office parks filled with the savvy Egyptian businessmen educated in the best schools the West has to offer. Our research traversed much of this continuum. While we were not in the poorest of poor areas (meaning, communities living in and mining garbage dumps), our interviewees ranged from the latte-sipping, shisha-smoking students wearing designer clothing to the tea peddlers in dusty, goat-filled alleys. When I asked, with the assistance of my translator, if they used Facebook, faces lit with a smile and a nod—even in the goat-inhabited corners.
By Kristina Loring - April 13, 2011
“We are human beings, not human doings” Andrew Pek, CEO of ivibe global and author of Stimulated! said during his keynote, Enlightened Innovation: A Mind, Body and Soul Approach to Creativity and Adaptation. Andrew explained that we should give pause to the constant chatter that we have with ourselves, the overlapping thoughts, and the idea that we need to constantly produce. It is in this frenzy of thought, Andrew argues, that we miss the “thoughts between thoughts” that help us tap into our creativity.
