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A Conversation With Jan Chipchase and Frog Design’s Chief Creative, Mark Rolston

How do you design for China, a country that hasn’t had much exposure to design but whose citizens suddenly find themselves awash in new money? On Monday, Frog Design, one of the country’s biggest and most respected design firms, announced it had hired Jan Chipchase , one of the world’s leading usability researchers and, for many years, one of the highest profile member of Nokia’s design team. It … (News Source: Fast Company Magazine - 20:59:32)

Friends From Frog Hollow, An Intimate Biography of Hartford

Trinity students and professors: we need to get to know our neighbors. Get your noses out of your books. Rip your eyes away from the screens. Just listen to what our neighbors have to say. I would like to begin a heartfelt, honest dialogue with our neighbors from Frog Hollow. (News Source: The Trinity Tripod - 00:21:56)

TCU football fans can start early at Frog Fest

After the morning festivities, TCU will play its spring football game. (News Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram - 03:40:33)

House kills coqui frog eradication bill

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers are not advancing a proposal that would have allowed Hawaii’s four counties to spend hotel tax money on efforts to eradicate coqui frogs. (News Source: KPUA AM 670 Hilo - 20:23:07)

Frog Design Imagines Urban Food Systems of the Future

What if getting affordable, local food was as simple as going to the nearest corner store or stopping by a food cart on the way home from work? Frog Design imagines that this is possible with Mobile Market and Stones Throw Harves t, two entries in the Digging Deeper SF competition. The San Francisco-based competition invited designers to “Design an urban agricultural product, system, retrofit … (News Source: Fast Company Magazine - 16:45:02)

Jan Chipchase, Nokia’s Usability Guru, Leaves for Frog Design

Chipchase is perhaps the world’s most admired expert in “human-centered design”: Knowing how people use their gadgets, and how to design for them. Frog Design–already one of the most influential design firms in the world–has just caught a very big fish: Jan Chipchase , formerly Nokia’s chief usability researcher, is leaving the Finnish firm and joining Frog as Executive Creative Director of … (News Source: Fast Company Magazine - 15:15:05)

Uncle Julio, Frog Killer

You may think you have enough to worry about with the still weak economy, global warming, and Sandra Bullock’s relationship status. Think again! Along comes the national non-profit conservation group Save the Frogs! (News Source: Fort Worth Weekly - 23:01:04)

Soccer player continues the game after graduation

You may have seen her on the Horned Frog soccer posters all year, but having her face plastered all over campus isn’t what made Kelly Faerber feel like a celebrity. As the senior player reflected on her career with the TCU soccer team, she said one of her favorite things was something that happened after the games were over. (News Source: TCU Daily Skiff - 02:59:32)

Sign Up To Search For Cricket Frogs At Bles Park

The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy is sponsoring a trip to Ashburn’s Bles Park to search for the elusive cricket frog. Cricket frogs are very small amphibians that many may not recognize as frogs by their call, which sounds like two stones being tapped together. (News Source: Leesburg Today - 13:27:50)

Marshmallows falling from the Sky!

More than 600 kids lined up to watch the helicopter drop thousands of marshmallows across the Frog Island Park field during the annual Marshmallow Drop on Saturday sponsored by the Ypsilanti Area Jaycees. After the drop, kids raced the length of the field and retrieved the marshmallows then redeemed them for prizes. (News Source: Ypsilanti Courier - 11:45:06)

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