Blog Design4Impact
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).
Blog Well-Formed
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.
Blog Remarketables
By Sabrina Sandalo - August 31, 2011
This week's collection of remarkable links, curated by the frog marketing team.
Philographics: Explaining philosophy through basic shapes.
Why Good Advertising Works (even when you think it doesn't).
Blog Future Perfect on design mind
By Jan Chipchase - August 18, 2011
The revolution is right here in front of us; we just can’t see it yet.
Blog Remarketables
By Sabrina Sandalo - June 29, 2011
This week's collection of remarkable links, curated by the frog marketing team.
Facebook's newest challenger: Google Plus.
Blog Object Oriented
By Amina Horozic - May 23, 2011
First, allow me to state the obvious.
The digital world is here, and it is here to stay. It will continue to grow and permeate every nook and cranny of our millennia-long analog life. It will force us to reframe our comfort zones, and challenge us with new ways of viewing our world. With that said, I must admit that I am one of those people who is totally fine with technology’s role in this new life. I love the inherent “magic” technology delivers as it instantly converts the invisible ones and zeros into photographs of our loved ones half a world away, or into songs that bring back nostalgic memories. I also love the near obsessive-compulsive organizational abilities technology provides, as it attempts to help us manage our insanely empirical schedules and enable us to poetically update our Facebook status, at any time from almost anywhere.
However. Dramatic pause.
Blog TotalDesign
By Nick de la Mare - May 18, 2011
Disney's Communicore, proposed Epcot attraction of the 1970's.
A few days ago day Seth Godin took a swipe at magic. Well, that's not really true. But he did make an interesting comment about its disappearance in our increasingly digital lives. By citing the Arthur C. Clarke quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” he calls out the seeming overpowering of magic by advanced digital technologies...
Blog Beyond Mobile
By Scott Jenson - April 18, 2011
Small, cheap devices will disrupt our old-school UX assumptions.
Editor's note: Scott Jenson was the first member of the User Interface group at Apple in the late 80s, working on System 7, the Apple Human Interface guidelines and the Newton. After that, he was a freelance design consultant for many years, then director of product design for Symbian, and finally managed the mobile UX group at Google. Now a creative director at frog design, Scott will be exploring the future of mobile on his blog.
Blog Object Oriented
By Remy Labesque - April 18, 2011
By the time you finish reading this, both of these consumer products will have been recycled at a local e-waste facility.
Blog Intrapreneur
By Kristina Loring - March 12, 2011
“We have greatly overestimated value of access to info and greatly underestimated value of access to each other — Clay Shirky at #sxsw
The highlights of my SXSW ’11 experience, thus far, have been found in the sessions that underscore the creative commons culture of documenting, sharing, and remixing that hacktivists, journalists, and members of civil society as a whole are embracing.
