Tag: technology
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Jun 2016CCD commissioned to design training centre interior
CCD, working in collaboration with AV specialists HyperSphere, have been commissioned to completely revamp the main training centre for an oil & gas company in Saudi Arabia. We are working to renew the interior spaces and integrate the technology into the classroom environments whilst providing increased flexibility in how the spaces are used by both instructors and students. HyperSphere, UK based global technology solutions provider, will be responsible...
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Apr 2016Wayfinding for a Conscious City
Our environment provides us with different levels of information that facilitate and enable our orientation and navigational skills. This information is formed of visual cues (what the environment presents to us) and it is blended with mental cues (what we form in our mind based on what we see and in our memories). David Lynch, in his book The Image of the City (1960) calls...
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Nov 2013Ergonomics of new technology changing office design
Technology we use at work is changing. Laptops, smartphones, tablets are all providing mobility over the predominant desktop PC. Much of this has developed to help us work on the road but it is also having an impact on the way our offices and workspaces are designed. The shortcoming of the desktop has always been that it fixes us to a desk, a single work...
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Nov 2013Wayfinding tech – does it help?
There have been a number of technology solutions emerging with the potential to support wayfinding. For indoor environments there is a move to more dynamic signage that offers the potential to adapt the message as necessary. A new product suggests we might also be able to do it with the floor soon – www.stuff.tv/philips/led-carpets-could-banish-boring-floors-good/news. The product uses LEDs in the carpet to be able to show...
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Jan 2013Future of mobility and customer service
Following on from some of our previous posts on customer service and service design, an interesting article from the President of Hertz International on the BBC website on the future of mobility. The interesting point is his view that technology is changing the way we view and access transport. Individual car ownership is being challenged with many more options available. He points out that transport...
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