by David Watts
20 May 2016
The Imagine Festival is hosted by the Transport Systems Catapult to bring people working in technology and transport to explore new ideas and help drive innovation. The event includes presentations from industry leaders, networking opportunities and an exhibition of new and innovative transport technologies. The Festival runs from 14th to 15th June 2016 David Watts will be at the Festival talking about how human factors...
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by David Watts
15 Apr 2016
Today is the 2nd annual Mike Stearn Shorts Day where we remember our friend and colleague Mike, who died this time last year. For those who didn’t know him, Mike was always in shorts, whatever the weather. So today everyone at CCD does the same…and how appropriate that it is cold and chucking it down! We’re also remembering him by making a donation to Bloodwise...
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by David Watts
13 Apr 2016
The V&A, known the world-over as the leading museum of art and design, has appointed CCD, the human-factors led design consultancy, to create a new wayfinding strategy following an extensive selection process. The appointment will see CCD undertake an in-depth programme of research to understand how different visitors and staff see, interact with and understand the building and will use those views to develop and...
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by David Watts
09 Apr 2016
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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by David Watts
10 Feb 2016
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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by David Watts
10 Feb 2016
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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by David Watts
06 Feb 2016
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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by David Watts
09 Oct 2015
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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