Twitter user @mjhardin posed the following question via our Twitter feed: What are the biggest online trends you see happening that marketers should be paying attention to?

We took it to JD, one of the user interface directors in Zemoga’s Bogota office.

What do you think of his answer (and his great looking flow chart?))

By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur)

Back before Bogota became known as “The Athens of South America,” it was…well, The Athens of South America.

Bogota was a rich cultural and commercial center long before the Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada even arrived.  The Muisca Confederation, one of the biggest and best organized confederations of tribes in South America, inhabited what was then known as Bacatá, meaning “planted fields.” Read More-->;

Sculpture by Donald Judd

By Dan Licht (@thedvl)

Barebones, simple, exclusive. These are all words that spring to mind when thinking of minimal design. Minimalism has been around for quite some time. The ability to use just what is needed and nothing more. It’s no wonder that it has been highly utilized in interactive design. After all, the requirements of designing for the web have always been built on a foundation of limits. Back in the ’90s we were restricted to only 216 colors and minuscule file sizes. But minimal interactive design is alive and well. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

image  www.scrumalliance.org

By Alejandro Gomez (@zemogalejo)

How would you build a great product that responds to the rapidly changing needs of your customers and the market? Would you take your time, plan every detail meticulously and wait till all portions of the project were finished before you began testing? Or would you map out your goals, build individual parts of the project first, and constantly adapt your build to react to problems or changes in the environment that occurred while you were completing your development?

If you were a 14 year old kid impatiently waiting for a video to download, you would choose the second option. After all it’s the guiding principal behind BitTorrent. And surprisingly, if you were a best practices digital developer like Zemoga, you would choose the second option as well.

While perpetual Beta has become a commonly accepted practice in the digital world (think of how many years Google labeled Gmail with that status), the idea that projects wouldn’t be built as a wholly formed entity and then tested for quality and performance is a fairly new one. But as our industry has learned more about building products to ever tighter deadlines, an “agile process” has often been identified as the best practice for creating materials. Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)

How do you build digital projects that make your client go “Wow” every time? At Zemoga, the WOW is where we start.

Not following me? WOW stands for “Web Opportunity Workshop”, our name for what is commonly known as a discovery session. The discovery session is a key component in any best practices Read More-->ive design is alive and well.

By Sven Larsen(@zemoga)

Good ideas make you smile. Great ideas make you want to steal them. That was our first reaction to Paris 26 Gigapixels, a remarkable project that has stitched together over 200 pictures to provide one of the most detailed digital panoramas we’ve ever seen.

Words really can’t do this justice. You have to Read More-->>

By Dennis Portello

One of the differentiators of good interactive technology & development firms is process. Not smoke and mirror strategy mumbo-jumbo but the process through which innovative thinking is actually executed and delivered. It does not matter how great an idea is, or how good it looks, if it doesn’t work … it’s shite.

At Zemoga, we pride ourselves on being able to deliver on the promise that innovation often reveals to us. How do we do that? We make sure that we follow the best practices out there. We learn from mistakes others make, and our own. We constantly improve. Perfection is not a destination but a journey nobody ever really completes. Just ask Tiger. Read More-->>

By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)

Well…not completely…but my recent interactions with Chris in Bogota revealed to me a whole bunch of what makes him special. Off stage & un-blogged. Chris Brogan is the EF Hutton of social media. What he posts, people read. What he tweets…people Re. He is one of the most sought after speakers and consultants in the Read More-->>

By Dan Licht (@thedvl)

I’m not talking about a smartphone, I’m talking about your actual palm.

We’ve seen demos of these kinds of kinetic interfaces before but I’m always fascinated to see how the technology has advanced. If you get pat the technical jargon in this video, you can see how something like this could be used Read More-->>

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