BASECAMP lets us keep track of our stuff!

BASECAMP is the web application Zemoga uses to track its project milestones, deliverables and “official” client communications. We’ve been using it for two years now and (despite the somewhat clunky zemogatime.updatelog.com URL) its easy to use interfaces and simple milestone and time tracking functionalities have improved our shared understanding of project goals and client commitments. Read More-->

“We moved from thinking of ourselves as designers to thinking of ourselves as design thinkers. We have a methodology that enables us to come up with a solution that nobody has before.” — David Kelley

Following up from yesterday’s post regarding creativity, FAST COMPANY magazine has a terrific profile of Ideo’s David Kelley Read More-->?

Image source: http://www.justindegarmo.com

Justin De Garmo is an awesome illustrator born in New York and raised in the US and Japan.  His drawings reflect typical scenes of daily life, as well as some funny and scary sides of fantasy illustration.

Check out more of  his work on his officialWebsite..

How can organizations foster creativity? Can innnovation be taught? And how can companies create environments where new ideas are generated on a daily basis? These are questions often asked by developers and interactive design groups. But digital media is hardly the first creative segment to be faced with these challenges.

Carl Potts, is a former Editor in Chief Read More-->?

I spoke on a previous post about our Jazz band called Delicate Process and our recent and fun journey playing like a band.

Some people wrote me asking for music, because all our friends know about our talent but most of them have not heard us; and I got this sample from the first days we started to play together.  I promise I’ll upload more samples as far as I get them from shows and rehearsals…for the moment I hope you like it

Delicate Process Sample:  Blues Jam at DJ’s Party>

I have been fortunate enough to travel plenty in my life. I take a lot of pleasure in discovering the little gems that cities tend to hold close to their chest, so as not to be spoiled. But no single venue has had as enormous an effect on me than a location in a small town North of Bogotá called Andrés Carne de Res. Alejandro first introduced me to ACR on my first visit to Colombia in 2004. Read More-->>

If you work in Information Architecture you will love this video

On Adobe.tv you can see a 1 hour video explaining the features and how to use an upcoming Prototyping tool called Flash Catalyst (known as Thermo), an excellent option to explore on Interaction Design with high quality functional prototypes.

Check out the video here.>

What do you think of when you think of Interactive design? Websites? Enterprise applications? One of our favorite design blogs, NOTCOT, offers up a fun example of how interactivity is being incorporated in to all sorts of user experiences. This article describes Lego’s experiments with augmented reality. The company has placed kiosks in toy stores that allow users to see Lego kits being assembled in an interactive 3D space. Sounds like a lot more fun than the 27 step instructions we struggled with when we were kids.

What products or services do you offer that could be improved by incorporating interactivity in to the user experience?he user experience?

In my reader this morning was an amazing post from Boxes and Arrows. The Post centers around UX testing for the EA game Spore. The firm of Bolt|Peters lead the player research project for Spore, they set out to do one better than the usual focus group by coming at it from a UX perspective. Read More-->