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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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4 Tips for Designing Apple Watch Apps

Boxes and Arrows

million units in 2014 to nearly 25 million units in 2015. With those thoughts in mind, here are four tips for designing applications for the Apple Watch. Apple research concluded that the average time spent interacting with a smartwatch is two to five seconds—checking email, reviewing a schedule, reading an alert, etc.

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The Internet of Things brings fresh Innovation Opportunities

Destination Innovation

When Tesla discovered that its cars had a problem with uphill starts it released a software patch to fix the problem. Similarly when they wanted to add a “crawl” feature which lets drivers use slow cruise control in heavy traffic, the company broadcast a software release that delivered the new feature to all existing Tesla cars.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

January 2014: I decided to take the work done to date and create a “product” to use with my clients. January 2019: I hired a developmental editor who reviewed what I had written. March 2019: With the book editing now complete, I imported the content into Vellum (a Mac-only software for book interior layout). Off to the printers!

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. Why Qmarkets?

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Innovation from the Innovation Nation – Israel

Qmarkets

Most of the time, the people I meet are unsurprised to discover that Qmarkets is based in Israel, however every now and then I will encounter a person or business who is hesitant to work with a company that is located in the middle-east, due to perceived political/economical risks and sometimes even a cultural bias. Why Qmarkets?