User centred design, the GDS way.
I was recently in Brighton where the city council hosted a Government Digital Service session on user centered design. Here are things I found most interesting.
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Old closed tube stations to become bars & more
Annie Mole’s Going Underground Blog reports that a consortium of finance, engineering, marketing and health & safety companies have been brought together byAjit Chambers fromThe Old London Underground Company to put […]
Read moreGreat new blog: thepeopleonthetube
I found a great new blog today: thepeopleonthetube.wordpress.com. It highlights one of the things I miss about working/travelling/living in London – the diversity of people. From amazing clothes to knelling face […]
Read moreWordsworth on the tube
This morning I was lucky enough to sit opposite a poem by William Wordsworth, titled “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge”. It was part of the Poems on the Underground […]
Read moreName that tube and flag that city.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. […]
Read more3328 photos, 2 minutes of video, 1 song.
This is a great video, i know I take a lot of pictures but the work that went into this is astonishing. London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from […]
Read moreUnusual politeness
This morning something strange happened. On a crowded Northern Line train a seat was left empty. the three men standing over it were all too polite to even […]
Read moreOdd maps, making food and emergency drinks
This is a post I started writing a month ago but things have been busy recently. Better late than never… There’s been quite a few sites and features […]
Read moreA captive audience
Following that post on HD sunglasses here’s one on some new advertising to hit London’s tube. Last October TFL started trailing some new video projection adverts on the […]
Read moreA very specific emergency
I wonder what kind of emergency they expect at Highbury and Islington which would demand an emergency cupboard. Who knows. It would certainly make a good caption competition.
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