A Milano non serve più l’auto privata: Car2Go ed Eni (in arrivo) October 17th, 2013 · 2 Comments È passato un po’ di tempo, ma quella che Rifkin battezzò (nell’ormai lontano 2000) come “Era dell’Accesso” – o Sharing Economy per essere più contemporanei – sembra cominciare a produrre risultati concreti anche a Milano che, ad oggi, è una delle città con più car sharing in Europa. E ben contenta di esserlo: dal lancio, in agosto, Car2Go ha già raggiunto la quota di oltre 50.000 iscritti. Se probabilmente oggi l’utilizzo è soprattutto da parte di chi già non ha un’auto, oppure ne ha solo una per nucleo, il successo che sta riscontrando Car2Go fa pensare che, in prospettiva, la città -non solo una nicchia- possa essere disponibile a dimenticare l’affezione per auto privata (i cui costi e fastidi aumentano costantemente) e a “convertirsi” all’accesso all’auto (a beneficio di vivibilità e sostenibilità, visto che per ogni auto condivisa 15 auto non servono più). Tanto per citare alcuni esempi: Fonti: link nel post Condividi o segnala Permalink:
Badge Maker | Create Your Badge Graphic Badge Design Essentials You can use whatever design tools you're comfortable with to build a badge and submit it to the group. The only requirement is that the final badge graphic is a square PNG image smaller than 250K. If you're not a graphic design guru, use this excellent tutorial provided by community member Jose using Inkscape (open source) to design a badge: Using Inkscape to Design Badges Inkscape is an Open Source Vector Graphics editor. The first step will be to download and install Inkscape and the resources needed which have been compressed into this P2PU Badge resource file. The resources file contains a template file called P2PU_Badge_Template_v1.svg, and a font file called Princeton Normal.ttf, which is the font used for the P2PU logo. Once the font is installed in your system, all you need to do is open the svg provided template and start modifying it, as explained in the next section. Using the P2PU Badges Template If you are having any problems please leave a comment.
The Agency of Design What is the right thing to do with your old iron, radio, and kettle? They can’t go in your recyclables and taking them to the dump is a hassle. Perfectly sized for the household bin, this is where 90% of them end up. This project looked at the end of life of electrical products and designed alternative ways to make the most of the material that they embody. The early project research was inspired by the ideas of industrial ecology, cradle to cradle and decoupled growth. While steel and aluminium could be separated well, plastics were very mixed and resulted in a low grade output. This was a bit of a shock and revealed a hard truth, that there is no point designing a product for disassembly if it is going to go through a shredder. Even with the best design for end of life, there would be no financial motivation for the manufacturer to change when it is only the recycler that will profit from this. At this point we thought there was little we could do to change the situation. The Realist
'Social innovation is my motivation' | Service design Sarah Drummond may be only 23, but she is already sure of the direction in which her career as a designer is heading. "Social innovation is my motivation. If I've got the skills to improve people's lives, why not use them for that?" she says. A trained product designer, Drummond has a clutch of social change projects under her belt including a community cohesion scheme in Wyndford, north-west Glasgow, as part of the GetGo Glasgow team from the Glasgow School of Art. Drummond is among a growing number of young designers using their expertise in service design to help create social change. Although relatively new in the UK, this approach to social innovation has been pioneered in Germany by Professor Birgit Mager of Sedes Research, the centre for service design research at Köln International School of Design. Both projects demonstrate the ability of service designers to take a broader perspective. Whole picture "You wouldn't find this out with traditional questionnaires.
The Rise of UX Leadership - Robert Fabricant by Robert Fabricant | 2:00 PM July 16, 2013 UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. The CEO as Lead Product Designer Steve Jobs famously ushered in an era of the CEO as “Lead Product Designer,” as described by one of his close collaborators, Glenn Reid, who worked with Jobs at NeXT and Apple: “(Steve) told me once that part of the reason he wanted to be CEO was so that nobody could tell him that he wasn’t allowed to participate in the nitty-gritty of product design. Given Apple’s success, it is not surprising to see many executives following Jobs’ lead. This product-centric mindset is not entirely new. Photo courtesy of Morio, Wikimedia Commons Some CEOs do get UX. “Customers” Have Become “Users” So, how do you know if your UX is actually working for your end-users? The Next Wave
danielaselloni : At @CascinaCuccagna we are... nealite : Visualizing Service Design... Role of social design in public services | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional Design institution the V&A recently held a symposium that looked more seriously at how design can contribute to contemporary social and political debates. Photograph: Graeme Robertson UK public services are gradually going digital, users are being asked to collaborate in service development and data is being made public. This is partly a natural evolution, partly provoked by the media, and partly driven by the government's open public services agenda: increase choice for citizens, release data, diversify the range of providers. Clearly, when it comes to developing new services, digitising existing ones, and understanding users, there is a role for design. "There are now several initiatives in the UK and internationally in which design-based approaches are being used to support innovation and improvement in public services and tackling social problems," says Lucy Kimbell, who started as head of social design at the Young Foundation in January.
Let's Design Services! Continuing our journey through Design @ Your Service, the article below is a contribution from service thinker Luis Alt (founder of live|work in Brazil). Good read! –Tennyson Pinheiro Take a look around. Now, if you start thinking about the way you interact with the world around you, you will notice one other common pattern: you access your life through services. But let's take a look at the different services that we access. Much has been said in marketing theories that we get to use products by interacting with a whole range of services that exist around it. Now the really good question is, "What exactly should be designed in a service?" Those 'new' designers must be able to navigate in more specific work regarding the service, defining how every channel should behave and coordinating design work for the service to become real. And that's why service design is so interesting and exciting. We believe that exciting times are coming for those who are willing to (re)think services.
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Roma, i vigili incitano a denunciare via twitter gli automobilisti fuorilegge, scoppia la guerra contro gli "spioni" Nelle intenzioni doveva essere un servizio ai cittadini esasperati dalle soste vietate e dagli automobilisti maleducati: aprire un account Twitter dei vigili urbani romani (@PLRomaCapitale) invitando a twittare le violazioni del codice della strada per sollecitare un pronto intervento della municipale. Ma l'idea, inaugurata dal nuovo comandante dei vigili Raffaele Clemente e salutata come una rivoluzione, sta degenerando. Continua a leggere dopo i tweet