Tag: tube
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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 old tube stations in central London into new use as tourism, storage space and entertainment venues (venues will become more than just bars, restaurants & clubs). Stations under…
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Great 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 down on the seats, you’ve got to love the people of London. I always say it’s impossible to really stand out in London, as this photo shows…
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Wordsworth 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 series. EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This…
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Name 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. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I…
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3328 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 David Hubert on Vimeo.
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Unusual 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 acknowledge the seat which was left vacant at Angel and it was still empty when I left at Old Street. How peculiar.
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Odd 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 which have caught my eye over the last few days, so here’s a little summary of what’s stood out for me: Shiny Shiny’s website of the week…
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A 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 tube on the platforms. Large projectors were set up at Euston which would project silent videos onto the wall across from where people stand waiting for the…
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A 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.