Now the Stockholm company, a subsidiary of Swedish media group Bonnier, is targeting bigger things — and planning to open an office in San Francisco next month.
It’s out! I’m moving to San Francisco to start a new office for Toca Boca. Very much looking forward to it!
It’s playtime: Toca Boca heads for America — Tech News and Analysis
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Apple´s R&D spending in $ and as a % of sales. Still, as the headline says, “you cannot buy innovation”. (via You cannot buy innovation | asymco)
Apple´s R&D spending in $ and as a % of sales. Still, as the headline says, “you cannot buy innovation”. (via You cannot buy innovation | asymco)
To paraphrase something I wrote a few years ago that I think still stands: “Pushing technologies on society without thinking through their consequences is at the very least naive, and at worst dangerous, though typically it, and the people that do it are just boring. This site is a pause for reflection in our planet’s seemingly headlong rush to churn out more, faster, smaller and cheaper”. For me, my employer, our clients, understanding what drives people, users, constituents and consumers is the first step in creating meaningful products and services and eventually creating a sustainable business. That a single financially constrained consumer gives up some of his or her very limited income to purchase that product is quite possibly the highest accolade.
The poor can least afford to purchase poorly designed products and services, and they can least afford to investment in those that fail to deliver. The real design imperialism comes from those people who assume that the world’s poor are not worthy of the attention.
A great, long, and well thought-through reasoning in defense of globalization and capitalist incentives. They don’t need to come with the shackles that are normally associated with them by default.
this is fucking beautiful
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I didn’t like cilantro to begin with,” he said. “But I love food, and I ate all kinds of things, and I kept encountering it. My brain must have developed new patterns for cilantro flavor from those experiences, which included pleasure from the other flavors and the sharing with friends and family. That’s how people in cilantro-eating countries experience it every day.” “So I began to like cilantro,” he said. “It can still remind me of soap, but it’s not threatening anymore, so that association fades into the background, and I enjoy its other qualities. On the other hand, if I ate cilantro once and never willingly let it pass my lips again, there wouldn’t have been a chance to reshape that perception.
This exact thing has happened to me. Very interesting. On the other hand, I also primed my mouth to liking olives once. It took a year (and an olive a day).
