WORK STATES

“Man is only capable of two things, making boxes and tools to make boxes” Alan Stacell -Design / Architecture Professor

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frog is a global innovation firm

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We help the world’s leading companies create and bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences.

Our multidisciplinary process reveals valuable consumer and market insights and delivers lasting, humanizing solutions across multiple technologies, platforms, and media.

Work is not a place

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Work is not a place

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We are all working

right now

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We work here

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The laptop was the gateway drug

and Here

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to some really bad trips

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Oh and then there are these things

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My guilty geeky pleasure

Ear bud shot

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The real advance: computers that don’t suck

Ear bud shot

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Efficient Power

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Always connected.

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the cloud(s)

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Always connected.

Then there is the Reverse-Don Draper-Effect.

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Always connected.

Then there is the Don Draper effect.

Our borders are compromised and worlds collide.

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Conversation Tennis. (asynchronous communications)

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But really, why do we work like this?

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because we have to.

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because we have to.

because we want to.and

How to Work

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How to Work

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multi-disciplinary teams

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but not together

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but “being” there

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Creating a sense of place

Google Street view for the office

structured and unstructured

order and chaos

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so what does that actually mean?

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then development team

(software and hardware) builds

it

strategy and design research

folks do their thing, defining the vision, the

solution, and the requirements

then the designers design it

discover design deliver

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then development team

(software and hardware) builds

it

strategy and design research

folks do their thing, defining the vision, the

solution, and the requirements

then the designers design it

discover design deliver

failure points

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insight design build

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convergence of

design with development

convergence of

insight with design

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insight build

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convergence of

design with development

convergence of

insight with design

design

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discovering what we don’t already know

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frogMob

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frogMob

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hi-impact low-tech

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projectM

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craft

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“We consider that the architects in every profession are more estimable and know more and are wiser than the artisans, because they know the reasons of the things which are done.”

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craftsmanship

Whittaker said, “I don’t know anything about cars....a business is a business.”

GM Wagoner, Henderson, and Whittaker

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Craftsmen

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the prototype

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explorers, scientists, artists and entertainers

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PowerPointOSIntroducing the next greatbusiness operating system

conclusions thoughts summary predictions

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We are not going to be working less but might just perhaps be happier working.

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Its going to be much less about who we work for and who we work with.

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Interesting is the great motivator and experience never trumps curiosity.

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We are what we make.

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