Tag Archives: design

FrogMob Crowdsources Market Research

Frog Design, the global innovation and design firm is experimenting with a ‘method of guerilla research’ that let’s anyone submit photos related to specific campaigns. ...
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Article in UX Magazine

In case you missed it, last week I wrote an article for UX Magazine about the use of web applications in emergency response scenarios and ...
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African Influences in Cybernetics

Ron Eglash is an American professor, a cyberneticist and a research of a field known as ethnomathematics (the study of the relationship between mathematics and ...
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Designing Websites for Low-Bandwidth Users

As more and Africans are able to connect to the Internet, the disparity in bandwidth between African users and broadband users elsewhere is becoming quite ...
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Web UI Designer Wanted

The tweets copied below retweeted by our friend @amysings should explain just who we’re looking to hire. This job is not location specific although we’d ...
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Flying Car to Cross Europe, Africa

In only 18 months Giles Cardozo has managed to do something many of us have been dreaming of since we were small children; he’s built ...
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The World of 100

Designer Toby Ng used statistics to re-imagine the world as a village of 100 people and came up with the unique images to visualize each ...
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Where are the African Designers? [Part 2]

A few months a go I wrote a post that questioned where the art movement of Africa existed and who was leading it. I ...
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Appfrica.net’s New Look

If you’ve entered the site through http://appfrica.net or http://appfrica.net/blog lately you’ll notice that the front page has changed significantly. It now looks more like a syndicated ...
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Ugandan Resource for Designers Launches

NodeSix, one of Uganda’s premier web hosting and design companies launched a new service today called DesignKingdom. DesignKingom features art, tutorials and other content by ...
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