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Microsoft has been a tough place to be in recent years, but here's an interesting example of a design team looking outside their category to find relevant inspiration and surely a lesson for everyone to escape from their familiar comfort zone. "A couple years ago the Windows Phone design team...

When technology goes small and more powerful, it creates new possibilities for exploitation by advertising and media entities. Ideas like screens on magazine covers and billboards that talk to you are now possible, if not yet, mainstream realities. The latest example is a spirits bottle by...

It's Chipchase day here at Influx Insights, so here's another post with a great slide from his deck. Mobile is a huge business and I am not sure we quite realize how big.One billion + phones are sold a year!!Worryingly, 400,000 phones a day are retired in the US. One surely has to question the...

It's only in a design concept stage, but at least Nokia is starting to think about the opportunity of re-use. Shown below is the Remade concept. Here's a video explaining a little more about the idea.Posted by Ed Cotton

The constraints of integration too often put limits on the creative application of a single medium. The idea that interactive should follow the lead of television often doesn't make any sense. It's refreshing to see an idea that seems so perfect for the interactive medium and one where the agency...

Dolce and Gabbana started it, Prada was next and now Levi's plans to continue the trend by launching a mobile phone of its own. It makes total sense that fashion brands should move where fashion is moving. Since technology has now acquired fashion status, fashion brands should be there.How they do...

We all know the feeling of wanting to talk to a live person, when we get placed in phone tree hell. Nophonetrees.com is planning to help by offering a web service that allows people to get the right number to get in touch with a live human being. The website looks a little hard to navigate and not...