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• Helsinki Design Lab

  I am really happy to announce the launch of Helsinki Design Lab, a site XOXCO had the pleasure of partnering with Bryan Boyer of SITRA to build. HDL’s mission, in part:

  We assist decision-makers to view challenges from a big-picture perspective, and provide guidance toward more complete solutions that consider all aspects of a problem. Our mission is to advance this way of working - we call it strategic design.

  Helsinki Design Lab features three case studies that epitomize the field of strategic design and they’re currently accepting case study applications to be featured on the site and at the conference later this year.

  Andy Pressman, of Rumors Studio, did some beautiful work on the visual design. And I’m really proud of our implementation of the details, including:

  • Subtle animation effects in the case study and around the site highlight portions of the content.
  • Case studies that “come to life” as they are created using the submission tool thanks to tons of fancy CSS and jQuery magic.
  • Each time the page is loaded a randomized version of the logo appears!
  • “Exquisite” PDFs are generated through a custom javascript-based pagination function.
  • Behind the scenes, all of the editorial tools feature autosave!

  A big thanks to Bryan, Andy and Ben for their hard work on this.

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  26 Apr 2010 / 9 notes