By frog Shanghai - January 31, 2012
您是否一直关注科技、文化、经济以及设计的发展趋势？ 想要发表自己的独到见解吗？想与更多的意见领袖分享自己的经验和体会吗？ 快来参与frog的调研活动并与我们分享您的真知灼见！
By frog Shanghai - January 30, 2012
Love What You Make 你是否准备好在设计界展露头角大放光芒？你是否对自己的作品充满激情？你是否愿意与青蛙们一对一分享你的作品并获取他们独到的意见与建议？
By Fabio Sergio - January 26, 2012
A version of this article also appears on FastCoDesign.
One could argue that Steve Jobs’ prominence in the collective imagination of what a truly innovative business leader should think, say, and do has only strengthened exponentially after his recent demise. As it often happens in the case of similarly influential, seminal figures, the hard recollection of facts and of “what really happened” gets quickly out-shined by references to memorable, albeit often anecdotal, events in that person's life. These are the stories that tend to be told again and again until they take on the aura of myths, and as even the modern Greeks can easily attest most human beings tend to embrace myths, especially when they come wrapped in compelling narratives involving a hero.
Along these lines one could also argue that Jobs’ near-ubiquitous biography has been instrumental in this still ongoing “mythification” process: If you happen to work as a professional in the creative industry, countless conversations these days start with a client, a colleague, or even a friend quoting a passage from the book, and one can can come to see this state of things either as a precious conversation starter or as an unavoidable reference to someone whom you're expected to either praise or criticize.
By Kristina Loring - January 25, 2012
Student loan debt, a burden for the majority of young Americans who pursued higher education, was brought to the forefront when it became a tangible demand of the Occupy Wall Street Movement this fall.
By Jon Freach - January 24, 2012
During course reviews with students at the Austin Center for Design, where I am a professor, our faculty saw a concerning pattern. Many of our students were inhibited, some even fearful, of actually making things. Luckily, they were seeking advice and direction on how to use their hands and actually experiment.
By Martin Ruegg - January 18, 2012
Having been in San Francisco for nearly a year, I was excited to head back to Switzerland this Autumn and revisit my roots. In October the Alps are still free of snow and the grass is a lush green. An ideal time to explore the Confederation Helvetica.
By Jan Chipchase - January 16, 2012
The views expressed here are my own, and not my employer, clients or other stakeholders.
I enjoyed going to the recent Pop!Tech conference—the combination of bright minds, warm hearts and the Maine autumn is highly conducive to reflecting on what has been and imagining on what will be next.
During the event, I gave a talk to the audience about my research work, and in the panel session at the end of my talk I took two questions from a member of the audience relating to personal motivations of doing this kind of research and whether anyone has the moral right to extract knowledge from a community for corporate gain. Given the asker’s frustrated-politeness I’ll paraphrase what I (and a bunch of folks that came up to me after the talk) took as the intent of his questions:
"What’s is like working for BigCorps pillaging the intellect of people around the world for commercial gain?"
"How do you sleep at night as the corporations you work for pump their worthless products into the world?"
Short answer is that I sleep just fine.*
Those with a desire to go beyond the 110 character headlines should draw a fresh mug of their favourite brew, find a comfy armchair, and read on.
By Kristina Loring - January 13, 2012
当网络上充斥着各种关于如何度过世界末日前最后一年的八卦的时候，青蛙们却在考虑着另一些能改变我们文化的东西。我们请教了全球各地的青蛙与我们分享他们个人最关注的将在今年得到长足发展的科技趋势，以及它们将会对未来的设计、商业、娱乐以及我们日常生活带来怎样的影响。这里有来自各个领域的青蛙——从策划到工程，以及从他们的激情与专业知识中提炼出天才想法。毫无疑问，2012将是广泛连接化、高度个人化、顶级智能化电脑成形的一年，好吧，也许那时连电脑都省略了。
By Robert Fabricant - January 10, 2012
Like many of you, I was delighted to find an Amazon Kindle Fire sitting on my desk a few weeks ago, when it was first released. My delight was heightened by the fact that I hadn't actually bought it. The Fire belonged to another Robert in frog's New York studio, Robert Curtis, who was more than happy to unbox the product with me so that we could both get a sense of the quality of that crucial "first" user experience with the product. Lest there be any doubt as to whose Fire it was, the screen immediately displayed a personal message: "Hello Robert Curtis. Welcome to Kindle Fire" (even though it was not yet connected to our Wi-Fi network).
By Kristina Loring - January 10, 2012
While the Internet is buzzing with ways to survive the last year of the world (according to the ancient Mayan Calendar), frogs are thinking of other things that will shape culture this year. We asked frogs from across the globe to share their personal favorite tech trends that’ll crop up this year and what their impact would be on design, business, entertainment, and our daily routines. We had frogs from all disciplines—from strategy to engineering—draw from their passions and expertise to offer their input. Without doubt, 2012 is shaping up to be a year of hyper-connected, highly-personal, ultra-smart computing that, well, might just skip the computer altogether.
