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Mobile Ecosystems Evolving
Mobile technology is more than the sum of the world’s portable electronic devices and the supporting telecommunications infrastructure. Unlike earlier versions of the Internet, the mobile Web is a halo of information that follows us almost everywhere, an increasingly meaningful part of our most minute interactions with the physical world. In this collection of articles, frog explores the future of mobile technology and its impact on diverse industries.
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Insights_China
frog's newest report featuring in-the-field discoveries and data-driven analysis of consumer and contemporary trends. This first issue is on Chinese consumers, with a focus on the Little Emperor generation that is currently coming of age and is redefining Chinese culture and business.
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In The Hands of God
frog Executive Creative Director Jan Chipchase, Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston, and Senior Design Researcher Cara Silver travelled to Afghanistan, with support from the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion, to research how mobile money could reshape financial access and behaviors in the country. In the Hands of God outlines the team’s on-the-ground insights into the country’s complexities as well as possibilities for the future of savings and mobile money that emerged from the research.
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Mobile Money
Funded by the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine, frog Executive Creative Director Jan Chipchase traveled to Afghanistan in the summer of 2010 to conduct a field study of the nascent mobile-phone-based financial service in the country known as M-Paisa. He presents his findings here.
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Tech Trends 2013
frog’s second annual review of tech trends features forecasts from a wide variety of technologists, designers and strategist across frog’s global studios. From virtual factories to artisanal handsets, these technologies are highly feasible, commercially viable, and are bubbling up to the surface of the global zeitgeist. We believe you’ll be hearing a lot more about these trends within the next 12 months, and possibly experience them in some form, too.
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15 Must-Reads From 2012
Across sectors, from communication technology to retail to emergency response and education, frog has explored, analyzed, and brought to market concepts with the goal of improving how we experience and share our worlds as human beings. We’ve curated some of the most daring, and widely recognized, thoughts from frog in 2012. From creative conviction to the connected city, explore a collection of our most thought-provoking essays, timely interviews, and recognized projects of the year.
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Tech Trends 2012
We surveyed frog designers, strategists, and technologists from across the globe to share their favorite tech trends that’ll crop up in 2012. In this booklet, our tech forecasters make their predictions, drawing on their expertise in everything from strategy to design to engineering. Among them: moving beyond the computer interface toward voice and gesture recognition, meaningful hyperconnectivity, and more biomimicry.
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A Fine Line
A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business is frog founder Hartmut Esslinger’s story of the innovation process, from targeting goals to shepherding new products and services to the marketplace. With a unique perspective, rich stories, and a global mind-set, Esslinger explores business solutions that are environmentally sustainable and contribute to an enduring global economy.
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Design Forward
frog Founder Hartmut Esslinger shares key lessons from his legendary career, discussing 'strategic design', and how innovative progression has sparked creative change in the consumer market, especially for one of the most successful American companies ever built: Apple.
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Hidden in Plain Sight
Jan Chipchase regularly crisscrosses the globe to observe ordinary people using ordinary objects to do ordinary things: making a call on a mobile phone, retrieving cash or a credit card from a wallet, pouring half-and-half into coffee, filling up a gas tank from a pump. In this book, Jan takes readers on his travels throughout the world to highlight the ways in which consumers act and think, and how these observations can be used in the development of products and services. Whether he is traveling to Cleveland or Kabul, Jan reveals that many of the clues to serving customers—today, in five years, or ten years down the road—are, in fact, hidden in plain sight.
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Success By Design
The wisdom contained in Success By Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers will help you become a stronger businessperson and better plan your career path as a design leader. This book by frog's David Sherwin was born from in-depth interviews with a slew of successful designers, studio directors, project managers, and client service professionals across a wide range of creative industries.
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Disrupt
In a business world of nonstop change, there’s only one way to win the game: transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking, a steady stream of disruptive strategies, and unexpected solutions. In Disrupt, Luke Williams shows exactly how to generate those strategies and solutions. He also shows how to combine fluid creativity with analytical rigor in a simple five-stage process for successfully disrupting any market.
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The Meaning of Business
In light of the economic crisis, companies have a historic opportunity to transform the way they do business and provide customers with more value-rich, sustainable, and meaningful products and services. With this special publication on “The Meaning of Business,” we invited business leaders from various industries and disciplines to explore new, innovative models of value creation.
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Radical Openness
As interconnectivity redefines how we relate and communicate with one another, traditional boundaries are constantly changing. In this increasingly fluid world, openness takes on new meanings. Our fourth TEDGlobal issue explores the conference’s theme “radical openness.” Highlighting and expanding the conversation that began in Edinburgh, design mind and TED bring together diverse perspectives to examine openness from several angles- revealing its possibilities and its risks.
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Passion
What is the thing that eats the clock as if it didn’t exist—that thing you work at and think about with such pleasure and excitement that it doesn’t feel like work at all? Passion is contagious. But it also has a dark side, and change is not always pretty—not at first. Indeed, there’s a fine line between desire and obsession, between excitement and madness. This issue explores all these ideas and more, while giving a glimpse of what, in fact, frogs are passionate about.
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The Stuff of Life
Life is complex, often messy, and always glorious. It is this “stuff” that we sought to explore in our third annual TEDGlobal special issue. We take a behind-the-scenes look at the annual conference held this year in Edinburgh, Scotland with feature articles, interviews, and photography to explore the conference's theme, The Stuff of Life.
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The Connective Issue
With more devices tapped into the Internet than there are people on Earth, people are now more connected than ever. Issue 14 explores all the ways we come together: from a behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook executes its design strategies to successfully connect hundreds of millions of people online, to in-depth essays on how death, government transparency, and courtship are all being re-defined in the Internet era.
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And Now The Good News
For our second annual TEDGlobal special issue we traveled to Oxford, England, to discover the seeds of optimism sprouting around the world, despite the doom and gloom dominating world headlines. And yes, the future looks bright.
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Work – Life
Gone are the days of the 25-year career. The nine to five work week is a relic. The boundaries between work and life are more blurred than they’ve ever been. Issue 12 explores the precarious balance between work and life, if such a thing still exists.
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The Substance of Things Not Seen
This special issue features articles, photography, and interviews that capture the ideas, conversations, and moments on-stage and off of the 2009 TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, England, dedicated to the theme "The Substance of Things Not Seen."
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Power
Recession has altered the economic landscape, and the social Web continues to challenge conventional hierarchies. Now meaning is more important than materialism. Issue 10 explores new definitions of influence and power. Who has it, and where can you find it?
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Motion
Travel, technology, and ideas—everything moves for different reasons and at different speeds. From Obama’s recent victory in the presidential campaign, to the ailing auto industry, to one person’s struggle with ADHD, Issue 09 explores how we move.
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Numbers
The premiere print issue of design mind explores the typography of numbers with legendary designer Erik Spiekermann, along with a look at slot machines, a new singularity, and the cell phone subscription explosion in China.
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