As we challenge ourselves to develop new ideas for business in the region, we must also challenge ourselves to develop a new definition for what is “modern” and “Arab.” We can start by avoiding these easy yet clichéd solutions, when looking to design elements of a brand.

To read this informative essay by Luma Shihabeldin click here

Microsoft recently shared a 2nd video about vision of future.These videos shows how Microsoft is working to develop new technologies used in Kinect, Maps and other to convert this vision of future into a reality.

But Interaction Designer Bret Victor looked at the interactions in the video and talk about human needs, capabilities and technologies that were shown in the videos in very detail.

First take a look at both videos and the behind the scenes of vision of future videos.

Microsoft Future Vision 2009:

Microsoft Future Vision 2011:

Behind the scenes of a future vision

You can read Bret Victor brief rant on the videos here

If you are a creative designer and playing with typo is part of your everyday job, then there are few very interesting interactive games for you to polish your typo skills a little bit more.

Shape Type is a similar game but in this you have to give a proper shape to a charatcer but using anchor points. Its just like using pen tool in designing tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Best part is these games are developed in HTML and CSS and are created by Mark MacKay for Method of Action, which is a peer to peer education website where anyone can participate and learn freely.

Joe Karkour is the Adobe Creative Suite Expert in Adobe MENA who will be hosting Adobe CS5.5 Alive! event in Dubai, UAE on 31st October 2011, where you can experience some of the amazing new features and capabilities of our industry leading solution Creative Suite 5.5.

This even is arranged by Adobe and Mediacast.

To register click here

What Do You Love is a Google new service. Which allows user to search through all of Google products and display the result in single page.

Website design is very nice and its easy to navigate.

What Google has to say about it is ” Get more of what you love by searching across numerous Google products with one click.”

Click Here to play around with this new service.

Nokia launched a Bluetooth headset which comes with NFC (near field communication).

If you have NFC enabled phone, you simply need to tap it with the Luna to connect the two devices. Else if you dont have NFC enabled phone, Luna can connect to your phone as a regular Bluetooth enabled headset.

Few distinguished features are

Nokia Luna is NFC enabled
Connect with 2 phones at the same time using advanced multipoint
Automatic volume adjustment
Up to 2 months of standby time when stored in the holder
Helpful voice prompts for pairing, and connection and battery status

For more details Click Here

IKEA launched a YouTube app as part of their Happy To Bed campaign, which creates 3d bedroom space based on your Facebook profile information.

You have to select number of people living in the room, years spent together if you are a couple etc. After few easy steps, app creates a 3d movie showing a bedroom filled with IKEA furniture.

You can click on each furniture item to select different color and get more information.

Click here to visit the app.

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Our Mobile Planet provides insights into smartphone usage and mobile attitudes using custom charts.

Our Mobile Planet site provides deep dives into the search, video, social and email behaviour, as well as mobile research and purchase intentions.

After great success of Cobone and GoNabit lot of similar group buying or daily deals websites are comig online in UAE.

I have compiled a list of more than 10 such websites which are very active in the UAE.

Click on each image to visit the respective website.

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