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A city with drive [The Independent]
Stephen Bayley takes a pit stop in Turin, and finds the hometown of Fiat is fuelled by fast cars and fabulous food. Read full story The post A city with drive [The Independent] appeared first on...
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Venice goes mobile with Wi-Fi walking tours [Metropolis Magazine]
A collaboration between the Department of Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Architecture Venice (IUAV), the project uses video-equipped cell phones,...
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Sun, sand and too much sizzle – a Mediterranean meltdown could mean tourist...
Global warming could mean hard times ahead for the Mediterranean, including its all important tourism industry, according to a report commissioned by WWF. Read full story The post Sun, sand and too...
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Context
Context-based Research Group was established in 1999, the goal was simple – to help marketers and product designers do better work through the power of ethnography. Margaret’s Walking Stick is...
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Green petite cars tempt tourists in southern Spain [BBC]
The narrow, cobbled streets of Cordoba in southern Spain are no place for a car, but Alfredo Romeo, a Spanish entrepreneur wanted to change that and set up a business with “blobjects”, electric hire...
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Participatory design, branding and ethics (as applied in Barcelona)
In a blog that talks about participatory design and how users can contribute to the design of services, we cannot sidestep the ethical issue. Often people’s creativity and cultural contributions are...
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Campers want electronic creature comforts [The Indy Star]
The wilderness isn’t what it used to be. Today’s campers come equipped not just with bug spray and burgers, but cell phones, computers, televisions and video games. As electronic gadgets have become...
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Australian qualitative research results in 35 mobile phone product ideas
Backpackers in Australia often wish to organise group activities, but have few collaboration methods available and only a trickle of communication is possible between them as they move. They regularly...
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Experience design and national parks
During the Fall semester of 2005, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design teamed with MAYA Design to do a long-distance academic collaboration. Students were given the Strategic Plan 2001-2005 of the...
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Swisscom presents ICT usage vision for 2015
Swisscom’s Vision 2015 highlights the most probable future with respect to developments and usage of ICT. Taking into consideration both technological and societal trends, Swisscom developed a number...
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Historic city of Bath to host wireless experiment [Reuters | CNN]
Britain’s historic city of Bath is to host an experiment in advanced wireless computer technology that could provide the blueprint for developing the world’s next generation of mobile phones and...
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What Ikea could teach Alitalia [Business Week]
Design Continuum CEO Gianfranco Zaccai imagines an airline that strives to provide an overwhelmingly positive customer experience I recently visited Boston’s new Ikea store with my two young children....
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Ethnographic study on shopping in Paris airports
Aeroports de Paris presents the first ethnographic study about men’s buying behaviour in an airport. This unprecedented survey was carried out in January 2006. In an airport environment, a man...
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We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world [The...
With globalisation, most anticipate an inter-connected world with greater understanding of multiple cultures more than ever before. Martin Jacques, a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia...
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Experiencing digitally resurrected cultural heritage sites
Most of us find it rather hard to picture ancient times when viewing old bones and stone fragments in dusty museum display cabinets. Now archaeological artefacts can come alive with the help of EPOCH,...
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More information on Dott, the UK regional design initiative
Dott is a ten year programme of design innovation, initiated by the Design Council, that will take place every two years in a different region or nation across the UK. The programme encourages the...
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New usability report on the online travel sector
The UK usability firm Webcredible has published a usability white paper on the online travel sector, based on a comprehensive study of online flight booking services on 25 travel websites in June...
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Torino 2008: design is direction
Over the last year I have sporadically been keeping you informed about the plans for Torino, World Capital of Design 2008. Things are now taking shape and a website is up. A friend of mine, the young,...
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Delta Airlines: change the experience / experience change
Delta Air Lines launched a new advertising campaign to mark a new era, introduce an updated, boldly modern corporate brand and showcase a reinvigorated customer experience. The campaign, entitled...
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Marriott partners with Ian Schrager to create unique lodging experiences
Hotel giant Marriott is partnering with hotelier and real-estate developer Ian Schrager to create a new brand of as many as 100 hotels that will combine the personal, intimate, individualized and...
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