David Watts will be doing a seminar on the science and psychology of wayfinding at the Sign & Digital UK event in April. The event, held in Birmingham at the NEC on 19-21st April, is one of the major signage events in the UK. David’s talk will be part of a seminar session on innovation in wayfinding & directional signage. The talk will be covering...
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One of the Middle East’s most prestigious and high-profile developments has appointed CCD to create a wayfinding scheme designed around the concept of how people interact with, and see, all elements of their environment. Al Mouj has turned to CCD to develop its wayfinding following an international competition which saw the UK-based agency beat competition from as far afield as Australia. Al Mouj is a...
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CCD’s services are now available on Marketplace.aero, SITA’s on-demand platform for delivering cloud-enabled solutions to the air transport industry (ATI). Focusing on software, applications, and cloud services, Marketplace.aero is a one-stop shop for industry organisations and professionals to research, select, and purchase ATI-relevant solutions. This is part of CCD’s wider relationship with SITA in providing passenger behaviour & experience design services. For more information, please...
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CCD will be one of the four companies showcasing at the Control Room Design Summit being held in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in April 2016. The Control Room Summit has been specifically tailored to provide Industry professionals, a unique opportunity to gain access to a showcase product launch and whitepaper from leading industry providers on the future of Control Rooms. All attendees of the event...
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We have just started a new and exciting collaboration with the Loughborough University in London campus. Loughborough University London is an innovative post-graduate campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The programmes available are world class, provided by leaders in their field, including Digital Technologies, Media & Creative Industries, Design Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sport Business. Courses will include an interdisciplinary ‘real-world’ collaborative project module with multiple...
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We’ve just finished working with Dell on a brief guide to workstation design, health and wellbeing for CAD users. The brief was to help users of Dell CAD workstation equipment to improve the set-up their workstations through the use of good ergonomics. It needed us to stop and think about what kind of things make CAD users different from normal computer users. This covered things...
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The 2015 CIEHF design awards and seminar were held at the Design Council headquarters in London on 22nd September. The day consisted of two workshops followed by the presentation of the Ergonomics Design Award. John Wood of CCD and Chairman of the judging panel, led the adjudication and announcement of the winner. Four designs were shortlisted representing designs from the maritime, rail, finance and...
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David Watts will be presenting at the annual IBC Control Room conference asking why control rooms haven’t traditionally learnt the lessons from workspace design on producing more human spaces. To minimise the risk of distraction etc control rooms are often austere spaces with minimal decoration or green spaces; or sometimes, in contrast, they are over-elaborate spaces designed to create eye catching visuals for the operator’s brand....
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The CCD team are doing three presentations at the 5th International Rail Human Factors Conference in London this week. Our Managing Director, David Watts, is presenting the research we did for High Speed 2 predicting the impact of train steps and passenger mobility on dwell time. Dan Simmons is talking about how virtual world simulation has been integrated into rail system design programmes as an effective...
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Earlier this week the new Borders Railway opened for business. The new line is the longest railway line to be built in Britain for over 100 years. The new Borders Railway runs between Tweedbank and Edinburgh and was built at a cost of £294m We’re proud to have made a small contribution to the project having worked with Network Rail in the design. We provided...
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