Is Northern Europe The Startup Design Capital?
We were sitting in the ArcticStartup office yesterday afternoon and Antti showed me the video to the unreleased to-do list app, Clear, by UK based Realmac Software. The app is beautiful and colorful way to do the same to-do list function that has been iterated a thousand times since the invention of the keyboard.
Whoever created Clear didn't come up with a brand new way to solve an unsolved problem -- they thought, hey I've got the UI skills to build a better mousetrap. And with posters everywhere on the way to the office proclaiming Helsinki as the World Design Capital of 2012, that got me thinking about where the "Arctic Valley" is in terms of elegant design.
