Category Public services
New Berlin School of Creative Leadership
New media design for cultural institutions
Branding in public services: waste of money? [Business Week]
Design for patient safety
EU Commissioner advocates user-centred design and citizen-centric services
UK government web sites fail accessibility tests [BBC]
Transitioning to a new model of healthcare
Forms and function, design in the public sector [Design Council]
Nature Magazine on the future of computing
Going more public: situated display design in a care setting through co-realisation
What’s wrong with serious games? [CNET News]
Creative communities: a bottom-up perspective on welfare and local development
How the masses will innovate [Business Week]
Designing for Stanford’s d-school
Design for social justice
What do European businesses and citizens think of widespread RFID use?
Most web users only visit six sites
Web users now have almost 76 million sites to choose from, yet most only visit six on a regular basis, it was revealed today. The research, published today by Directgov, points to a new era in the use of the…
Half of American children obese by 2010, 38% of European ones [AP]
Associated Press reports that according to a study published in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, rates of childhood obesity are expected to skyrocket in the coming years, with half of the children in North and South America obese by…
Media Lab director on confronting social problems and user-driven innovation [Christian Science Monitor]
A long article in the Christian Science Monitor reflects on the new directions for the MIT Media Lab, including how it will relate with its sponsors. Director Frank Moss also speaks about confronting social problems and user-driven innovation. Moss wants…