Grit Design:

Grit Design has officially moved to the Elevator Building on the Detroit riverfront.

The Detroit News did a feature today on the revival of the Detroit riverfront. Andrea was interviewed for the video. Check it out for a preview of our new space!

Check out the Detroit Medical Center ER Wait Times app available for the iPhone.

JCI Design brought us in to support their efforts in marketing the DMC ER Wait Times program by providing design and code for a new iPhone and iPod Touch Application.

The application provides users with current wait times for 5 DMC Hospital ER Locations, along with contact information and driving directions to each hospital.

The application is also available for Android.

What we’re reading is obviously influenced by a number of things but here are some of them:

• iPad Launch this week
• SES NY 2010

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Google does what most of us think it does, interprets search habits and providing back personalized search results. They were public about it, many people know about it, but the majority of users just went along happily thinking that if their site showed up on the first page of search results, they really ranked on the first page for everybody.

Search engines display the results that the search engine feels would be most relevant to you. This personalization of search results is very useful, until an executive who is not aware of it brings up their personal search results in a meeting and wants you to optimize the site based on their skewed results.

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Sony revealed their flexible OLED screen in January, and in July a video from Japan showing it working – what could this mean? The possibilities are endless; devices that mimic the feel of a newspaper or books, phones that roll out a larger screen – it could give the ability to put screens on anything, without the bulkiness of displays. Imagine a phone or music player that could be worn as a bracelet (which Dick Tracy always had in the comic strips of the 50’s). Mass production would be costly as of yet, but something to keep an eye on in the ever changing market of mobile devices.