It’s been a busy week in the workshops at Brunel University this week, putting together the basic structure of the exhibition stand that we are planning to take to the Cheltenham Science Festival in the first week of June. More details to follow in due course about the content and interactive elements of the stand which will be being manned by volunteers from The Ergonomics Society.
The Stand Ready for Action (photo Fergus Bisset)
The Real World Design team will be Twitter-ing updates from the Ergonomics Society Conference in London today and tomorrow. Please check out http://www.twitter.com/realworlddesign or the links at the bottom of the page to find out the latest topics of the conversation.
We realise we’ve been quiet for a little while – we’ve been busy working on plans for the exhibition, but we’ll be elaborating some of the discussions from the conference on the blog over the next couple of weeks. Please check back in again soon and use our new Facebook Connect feature to join in the discussion or point your friends in the direction of the site!
Yet another gem from Seth Godin:
“In a world where consumers have so much power, we now have two responsibilities:
The same is true in relation to Ergonomics, if we continue to support products and services that do not accomodate our Ergonomic requirements we are effectively announcing that it doesn’t matter to us that using such products is unsafe, inefficient, unpleasant or demoralising.
Through Real World Design we wish to highlight the importance of Ergonomics and also provide you with a platform to highlight products or services that you feel are letting you down in terms of their usability, safety and comfort. Equally, we also wish to promote products and services that you think are making things better.
Use the ‘Comments‘ link or our Facebook Group to speak up!
Thanks to all of you out there who have given us feedback as part of our early user testing of the website, as you might have noticed we have implemented many of your ideas and suggestions already. This was always the plan with this site, for it to grow with the project and be directly influenced by feedback provided by you the users.
We're growing the Real World Design Site With Your Help
As advocates of human centred design, we are passionate about hearing your views on both site content and design. We truly want this site to be pleasurable and interesting to use and navigate. We also hope that these values will be reflected in the exhibition we are designing for you and which will open in November 2009 at the Design Museum. If at any time you see that we are not fulfilling these aims for you then we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Changes in the site that we have implemented today in response to your feedback:
Thanks very much again for your help in making this site better!