Design for All ?

A little while ago, a young colleague asked me: “Since you take an interest in these things, can you tell me what kitchen is best suited to a person who has to use a wheelchair?” He had been commissioned to adapt a flat to the new requirements of a client who had come out of hospital, but in a wheelchair.

We can rid the system of all the parasites and malignancies or just stay home and continue to get our reality through television.
"In a recession, you can innovate to be more efficient," says John Kao, author of the book Innovation Nation and the head of Deloitte's Institute for Large Scale Innovation.
It seems to me that a recession could actually spark some true innovation in terms of design, as far as use of less expensive and more durable materials, or perhaps the development of new services and software, or even gadgets and goods that defy quick obsolescence and offer updates or add-ons that might help consumers save money.
And will such items be marketed as such, as recessionfriendly and easy on the wallet, rather than the coolest, must-have things?
The final lesson is to use this downturn as a learning experience. If you've got this discipline to survive, or even thrive, in the next year or so, you'll be mastering skills that will serve you well forever. Don't carried away by GDP or any financial economic words jugglery. The unpaid work of parents caring for their children at home doesn't show up in GDP, but if they decide to work outside the home and pay for child care, GDP suddenly increases. And even though $1 in income means a lot more to the poor than to the rich, GDP takes no account of income distribution. An oil spill, for example, increases GDP because someone has to clean it up, but it obviously detracts from well-being.
More crime, more sickness, more war, more pollution, more fires, storms and pestilence are all potentially positives for the GDP because they can spur an increase in economic activity.

NEED TO SIMPLIFY INGRESS AND EGRESS
The minor axis of the inner shell is 1050mm while distance of the spinal to the toe is around 500mm when you are sitting on a chair. The seat (if placed exactly at the middle) will lead to a distance of 525mm from toe to spinal, as shown in the figure, hence there is enough clearance for rotation so that the legs do not collide with the shell.

ADJUSTABLE STEERING AND SEAT MECHANISM
The vehicle steering is 'drive by wire' and can be adjusted according to user comfort. The idea of adjustable steering was incorporated so that while the inner shell rotates it does not collide with the steering or the central console.
The seat is also adjustable according to user comfort. It will slide back and forth before the inner shell rotates. This in turn helps to meet the ergonomic requirements during ingress and egress.

Design and development of rural basic utility vehicle-RBUV was done for rural people who come to urban area for their economical and social development
Abhishek

Aesthetics:
The product caters to the needs of the rural users and thus cost, manufacturing and maintenance are all a constraint.
As the product should look like an industrially developed product, it has been seen throughout that the kind of detailing used is of superior quality so as to enhance the simple appearance. egress. This will also reduce fatigue while driving.

d. Overhangs
The overhang can be totally eliminated by relocating the space for engine and storage space.

Main features of the final concept
The main features of the concept are as follows: 1. It is a single seat concept car to cater to the most basic need for mobility of the user. This reduces its footprint and weight, easy to maneuver and park.

The large windscreen design improves the visibility and area of vision.
3. The suicide door (i.e. door hinge at the rear) provides larger area for entry.
4. The roof slides away simultaneously with the movement of the door. This enables the user to walk in without bending.
The roof slides smoothly along the rail provided without taking up the space behind the car.

The roof of the car is intentionally designed taller to
accommodate a higher seat with better hip point location.

The seat sits on a rail which slides back during ingress and
egress to aid in the process.

There is an LED message board in the spoiler to give out an
SOS message during an emergency.

Proximity sensors are provided at the front and rear to
alert the driver before it hits the obstacle.
9. The vehicle is equipped with run-flat tyres.
10. The side profile is such that there is no overhang in the front as well as at the rear. This is advantageous in two ways. First, the overall size of the car is reduced for easier parking and secondly, the size of the footprint is still adequate for stability in spite of the small overall size.

Features:
• There is ample storage space below the handle and the under the seat • There is enough mounting space to keep feet comfortably.
• Petrol tank is below the seat gives front space free which is used for the storage.
• Silencer is below the seat which is covered give safety to the clothes to be stuck • Wheel cover for the rear wheel gives safety to the clothes to be stuck.
• The wheel cover and the engine covers are separate.

Cosy:
A Feet Warmer, Keeps our feet warm in the winters.

Amar jeet
Project title: Redesigning the Room heater Aim: • To understand the materials and manufacturing process.
• Find out the difficulties while manufacturing and in using the product.
• To redesign or simplifying the product keeping the cost same or less than that Problems By Manufacturer

IDDC, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India
August 2009Vol Under current law, when federal financial assistance is used to create new single family houses or town houses, only 5% are required to meet accessibility standards that allow individuals with physical disabilities to visit or live in these houses. The remaining 95 percent of governmentassisted new homes can be built with unnecessary architectural barriers. As a result, residents who acquire disabilities are forced to live in unsafe conditions, unable to use their bathrooms or exit their homes independently. They may face high renovation costs or long waiting lists for public funds to finance modifications. They may become socially isolated because barriers in their homes prevent visits from other friends and family members with disabilities. Ultimately, they may be forced from their homes and into institutions because of this lack of basic accessibility in their housing.
HR 1408 addresses these dilemmas in a cost-effective and practical way. While leaving in place the existing requirement for extensive access in 5%, IHDA provides for fewer but important accessible features in the remaining 95%. This would ensure that all housing built with taxpayer monies enables a person with a physical disability to enter a home and use the bathroom on the main level. For homes built on a concrete slab, the cost is less than $100 and for homes with a basement or crawl space the cost is estimated at less than $600.

In a study published last year by the American Planning
Association, researchers determined that, using different measures of disability, there was a 25 to 60 percent chance that a house built in 2000 would at sometime during its useful life contain a resident with a severe, long-term mobility impairment.[ 1] This nation is not building homes to meet the needs of its people. HR 1408 will take considerable steps to correct that. Please support HR 1408. The Crisis that began in 2007 continues to convulse the world. Labelled by some as merely a recession, yet it is associated with dramatic changes in national and global power. Others frame the Crisis as merely a consequence of over-promoting a narrow range of financial transactions associated with subprime mortgage instruments. These were indeed overly aggressively oversold by deregulated bankers, but this was likely only an important trigger of the Crisis, not the primary cause.
In this special issue, we will explore the notion that much of the basis of the Crisis should be assigned to financial transactions not just made possible but also strongly afforded by use of computer technologies. Thus, those operating at the highest levels of algorithmic capacity bear substantial responsibility for the Crisis.
For students of technological innovation and diffusion, many questions emerge about the connection between the Crisis in general and computerization. Some of the questions involve the tight relationship between cultures of technological empowerment and financial elites. Others questions, while appearing initially to be purely economic, turn out on examination to articulate strongly with the public interest, civil society, policymaking, and public discourse more generally.
These in turn lead to further, perhaps quite new critical questions about the emerging relationships between capitalism, democracy and the data-informationknowledge-technology nexus. Thus, equally important for responsibility is specification of what is known within computer science about the technological dimensions of the Crisis of this crisis. Ultimately, a rethinking of the very notion of "crisis" itself may be needed.

Some specific questions authors may choose to address include:
What kind of crisis is this, how is it different from previous ones, how are these differences related to automated ICTs and the changed practices they have afforded?

What role do computer professionals have in the crisis?
Does this crisis suggest a dystopian post-human future?
What media theories best explain the crisis, or has the time arrived for newly radical approaches in this area?
How does public policy fit in the private world of computerization?
What historical guides are available as tools to foster better analyses of technological crisis?
Will the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) be the "winners" of this crisis?
Are there artistic innovations that help refine political and policy responses to this crisis?

What new knowledge innovations are needed to understand the forces at work in this crisis and its implications for democracy?
What new questions need to be addressed invented to orientate research about the crisis?
How are the computing-, information-, and mediaindustries affected by this crisis? How will they develop in the future?
This special issue of tripleC is intended to feature research from both theoretical and practical perspectives. We seek contributions from any theoretical, professional, or disciplinary perspective that offers innovative analysis that promotes debate about technology and the Crisis. The EnerJar is an easy-to-build device that accurately measures the power draw of electrical appliances. The EnerJar was the winner of the Greener Gadgets design competition. The design is still being optimized, but preliminary schematics and source code can be found on this site by following the "Hardware" and "Software" links to the left.

Matt Meshulam and Zach Dwiel -United States
The EnerJar is an easy-to-build device that accurately

I've been talking to European and US innovation and design consultancies working in Shanghai and the rest of China and most are hiring Western and Korean designers because Chinese designers are not up to global standards. They say that, wth a number of exceptions, the tens of thousands of graduates of Chinese design schools yearly are not precise and exacting enough in their design skills.
Reflecting Chinese manufacturing culture, the young designers want to get things done quickly, without much regard for getting it just right. It's a quick-quick attitude. As for innovating, reframing problems and seeing products and services with fresh eyes, Chinese designers are not nearly there. They are not there in terms of the skills and approaches in anthropology and sociology that allow designers to understand consumer cultures around the world. And Chinese designers are way behind in knowing how to do brand strategy and build new brands.

It's a big problem for Chinese companies trying to shift from OEM manufacturing to building their own national and global brands.
To its credit, China has made design a national priority and is pouring billions of yuan into design education. What is surprising to me is how much further Chinese designers, even the graduates from the best universities, have to go to rise to global par.

Good for everybody, easy for you
Newsletter nº 1 Here we are again with our Newsletter, and this issue with more information thanks to the contributions you have sent us. We inform you that on august there will be no Newsletter due to summer holidays, but on September we will be here again, full of energy and illusion.
We do hope you will find it both interesting and informative. As always, we are at your disposal for any proposal or criticism you may have.  Theatre, dance, music, hip hop, arts and crafts, kids' facepainting and toy workshops.

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The car won first prize at the 'International Car Fiesta Shell Eco Marathon' held at Fontana, California April 15-18.
Ankit Khurana, team leader of the project, said here Friday: 'Around 32 teams from different countries participated in this competition. We were the only team from Asia. We named our car Stealth and christened ourselves Team Stealth.' 'We classified our team into various departments; each individual was given an independent task and was solely responsible for that. After working all day and night we were able to manufacture the vehicle in 70 days,' stated Khurana.

The winning team comprised of 12 students of mechanical, electronics and communication streams of the Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology in Rajpura town in Punjab, some 25 km from here.
Stealth is made of fibre glass with a self designed steering mechanism. Its net weight is 115 kg, and it is powered by a 125 cc (4 stroke) engine.
After winning the coveted award, Stealth returned to India a few days back.

Jul 23, 2009 By Chitiz Mathema, Cypress Semiconductor
The user interface represents one of the most demanding challenges for designers of electronics-especially consumer electronics. It requires the careful mapping of complex user actions to create an intuitive, usable, and productive experience. With all of their senses, users sit on one side of this paradigm. The device is on the other side.

The holy grail for both users and developers is a user interface that most effectively and intuitively leverages the most relevant senses-sight and touch in this case-into the most optimal user experience. Unfortunately, a large majority of commercially available devices predominantly treats these two critical senses as inherently separate.
On the surface, these interfaces comprise components that seem to do the job well enough. They range from simple buttons or keys to more advanced tapping and scrolling features such as volume sliders, scroll wheels, and trackpads. Yet the location of the output, or the result of a user's input, is fundamentally displaced from the location of the input. What would happen if those two senses-the output and the input, or the sight and the touch-were one and the same? Touchscreens bring this benefit to systems at a very basic level.

What may seem like a basic concept is actually a profound breakthrough that is leading to a revolution in how users
interact with electronics. The transparent nature of touchscreens enables a completely different user interaction with devices as the user directly "touches" the varied content within the display. Instead of having a button on the periphery of any electronic device, like a regular dial pad button on a cell phone, users can directly interact with any application that is inherent within the device's "brains," its operating system. This direct interaction is revolutionary because the power of the operating system and its applications are then directly at the user's fingertips. While keypads let users navigate through applications on a screen, the keypad and screen are still separate and distinct. A touchscreen fundamentally brings the display alive by allowing users to physically manipulate the display and become one with the screen, its inherent applications, and the data displayed.

Single-Touch Touchscreen
The power of the touchscreen was first unleashed in its simplest form with one finger touching one point on the screen. Just think of your everyday point of sale (POS) terminal at your local supermarket or the check-in terminal at the airport. Single-touch was the obvious next step in the evolution of user interfaces, bringing the mechanical button off to the side of the screen back onto the screen. Single-touch buttons are found in everything around the home, office, or anywhere in between: cell phones, landline phones, remote controls, televisions, computers and all of their peripherals, gaming systems, refrigerators, ovens, toasters, car interior controls like radio and air conditioning, and so on. Single-touch touchscreens remove the need for the traditional mechanical button by integrating that user control interface directly onto the screen itself (Fig. 1).
Single-touch has brought two main advantages to the user interface. First, device design space can be optimized, especially in smaller devices, by locating both a screen and buttons in the same area. Second, devices can now have an unlimited amount of "buttons" since a button could be tied to any application within the device's operating system. This functionality, predominantly based on resistive touchscreen technology, became quite popular across consumer electronics, airport kiosks, grocery store POS terminals, and automobile GPS systems, and it easily found applications in the mobile space.

Multi-Touch Gesture Touchscreens
Single-touch touchscreens based on resistive touchscreen technology, while amazing in their own right, had two significant drawbacks. First, resistive technology relied on the small physical movement of the touchscreen, something that proved to cause poor performance after normal wear and tear. Next, the technology was just single-touch, i.e., only one finger could do one thing at one time on a particular screen. This is where Apple made its monumental contribution to the user interface revolution, with its projected-capacitive touchscreen iPhone. Even in small devices like smart phones, the functionality inherent within the applications and operating system screams for multiple fingers for optimal usability. Users already are wondering how they ever lived without one-and two-finger gestures, like manipulating picture sizes and adjusting Web page views (Fig. 2).

Fig. 3: Multi-touch all-point touchscreens tear down the boundaries of user input, which is only limited by the designer's imagination.
As with single-touch touchscreens, multi-touch gesture touchscreens too have a limitation: the number of points the technology can identify on the screen. Why limit device makers to two points at a time? Users have 10 fingers across two hands, and when users interact with each other, the number of fingers and hands grows even more. That's the concept of multi-touch all-point-the ability to handle more than two fingers (Fig. 3).

Multi-touch all-point technology brings touchscreens to the next level of reliable usability across a broader set of feature-rich applications. Reliability refers to the ability to accurately capture all raw data points touched on a screen
in the highest granularity in a way that minimizes any confusion about which exact points in the screen were touched. Usability refers to the many powerful applications, within small and large screens, that can benefit from more than two fingers or hands on the screen.
Interactive 3D gaming, keyboard entry, and map manipulation are but a few more applications that are prime candidates for this level of touchscreen functionality. Ultimately, multi-touch all-point technology provides device and system OEMs with even more touch data to empower them to unleash their creativity for developing the next generation of user interfaces.

Chitiz Mathema is a product manager in the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress Semiconductor Corp., where he is responsible for product marketing of the TrueTouch touchscreen solution and CapSense touch-sensing solution.
He has five years of experience in design, project management and product marketing. He holds a bachelor's degree in ECE from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, in India and an MSEE from Mississippi State University 7. conditioning, which is present on less than 5% of inter-city vehicles worldwide--reduce fuel efficiency and don't even provide enough cool air to all passengers. As it turns out, this fuel/energy-efficiency conundrum can be fixed with a simple design modification, according to Sunil Kale, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India.

How a Simple Design Tweak Could Save Fuel and Keep Bus Passengers Cool
After Kale and his team conducted an aerodynamic study of fluid flow in buses, they found that passengers near the aisle don't receive any cool air from open windows, while passengers in the front only receive air from the rear of the bus. But by adding a wide vent at the front and back of the bus, or by adding roof vents, the "comfort zone" of cool air is expanded from 11% of the vehicle to over 50%. The vents also reduce drag, so fuel is conserved. That in turn could mean that public transportation ticket prices are kept down.
It's a simple fix, and one that could provide much relief to passengers. As fuel prices increase, the number of bus passengers probably will as well. And since buses are already the primary means of commuting within and between cities worldwide, any improvements, however small, are welcome.

Snehlata Shrivastav2 August 2009
He did not say a word, but the smile and glow on the face of Animesh Ahilya, a visually-impaired standard X student from Kurve's New Model High School on receiving an audio book reader (ABR) as a gift for his school on Saturday morning said it all.

Animesh was happy that now, like him, many more visually-impaired children from his school will be able to perform better in their studies. His father had bought him an ABR last year. The device helped him to read all his text books and clear the exam easily. Animesh and Kurve's School are some of the beneficiaries of Saksham' (Samdrishti, Kshmata Vikas Evam Anusandhan Mandal), a city-based NGO, which has been trying to enable visually-impaired (both partially and completely) children complete their studies.
Since one year, Saksham has been providing students with text books for standard V to XII in audio form.
Saksham, which also runs the famous Madhav Netra Pedi or the Eye Bank at Pratap Nagar Square, is known for its varied initiatives to enable physically-challenged children and adults to come into the main stream.

Schools like the Dnyanjyoti Andh Vidaylaya, the Blind Relief Association's blind school on south Ambazari road and the LAD women's college are some of the other beneficiaries who can now provide education to students through Saksham. So far, Saksham has provided ABRs to 65 children from the city as well as other cities in the state.
Saksham also has the support of many philanthropists like C V Chalapati Rao, a director-grade scientist from the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, who keeps sponsoring ABRs for different schools. On Saturday, he handed over the ABR to Animesh. Kurve's principal Shashi Shamkuwar had no words to express her gratitude to Rao. She just wished that more and more individuals from all sections of society would continue to support Saksham in its endeavour.
Saksham is a joint effort of some of the most devoted and motivated individuals who believe that physicallychallenged people also have an equal right to excel in every field like normal individuals.

ABR, a completely indigenously-developed device by
Darwhekar, is the first device of its kind in the country. It can convert all the existing text books developed by the National Association for Blind into a special audio format which is different from the available audio instruments. The ABR helps blind children read all types of books either individually or collectively in a form compatible to their understanding.

Darwhekar, a retired bank manager posted in the information technology (IT) department, used his skills and knowledge to devise the ABR.
He says that though some visually-impaired kids have already been reading books in the form of CDs and cassettes using headphone and I-pods, none of these devices have been made taking the visually-impaired into consideration. Hence, Darwhekar developed the ABR which is basically a small and handy device with just five buttons which can be connected to a head phone. The device requires a 2GB memory card which can store all X and XIIth standard text books. It has a capacity of storing 60 hours of reading material. Saksham has already converted over 500 text books and other literature books into over 12,000 cassettes and CDs which can be read using the ABR. Apart from Maharashtra, they are being used in Kerala, Hyderabad and Bangalore. This has been made possible because of over 70 volunteers from the city, including doctors who read text books and record them whenever they have time. These records can be added to the ABR memory card. Ramesh Sathe, a mechanical engineer from Pune, who also designs and develops low vision devices to help the visually-impaired through his Vijaya Memorial Trust was so impressed by ABR that he came down to Nagpur and gifted a set of low-vision devices developed by him to Saksham. Motivated with the appreciation received by Sathe, Sakasham decided to start a Low vision centre' at Madhav Eye Bank. The centre was inaugurated by Sathe himself. From the day it started operations, students and even adults began to approach the centre for screening. They were keen to know the exact problem in their eyes so that they could seek the most suited low vision device like a typoscope which cost only Rs 15 to hi-tech devices costing up to Rs 1.5 lakh.

Students who cannot afford to buy these devices (40 varieties) can seek sponsors through Saksham. Volunteers like Sandeep Darwhekar and Mukund
Deshmukh and many more go out of their way to find sponsors. Amrapali Motghare and Dinesh Samahe were among the first few to reach the centre on the first day to avail of the low-vision devices. Both had different problems but were thrilled that the centre had solutions to their problems in the form of special devices that would make their future much brighter.

For girls, Saksham has come up with a new project at LAD
College. The college has bought an ABR and headphones for its library where ten students from any standard can read any text book for any class along with normal students and that too without disturbing them. Sanghavi wishes to reach the ABR to needy students. He seeks cooperation from the society to fulfill the dreams of thousands of differently-abled children.

FORUM NOKIA -USID Design Challenge2009
Enrich the lives of the differently-abled, Get rich! Do you think you can create a difference to the world with your ideas? Then how about enabling 650 million disabled people?*

PRIZES
Prizes as per the following will be awarded to the best three entries: 1st Prize: Rs. 50,000/-* 2nd Prize: Rs. 30,000/-* 3rd Prize: Rs. 20,000/-* *Tax will be deducted as per the Income Tax regulations of Govt. of India.

The prizes will be awarded during the closing event of the USID 2009 which is being planned in September 2008.
The details and schedule for the closing event will be notified to all the winning teams through email/post. The Individual team can decide to collect the prizes themselves by attending the closing event of USID 2009 on their own expenses or can inform USID Foundation about their incapability to attend the closing event. In this case, USID Foundation will make some alternative arrangement of forwarding the prizes to the winning teams. By participating in the design challenge, you agree to be bound by the Official Rules, and the decisions of USID Foundation, which shall be final in all respects. All the entries shall receive participation certificates from the USID Foundation.

Registration: August 10th, 2009
Submission: August 30th, 2009 For registration send email to usid_designchalleng e@usidfoundation .org with your name and institution/ organization.

ENTRIES SUBMISSION PROVISIONS
The teams must submit their deliverables as mentioned below. Incomplete entries will not be taken into consideration.

HOW TO SUBMIT ONLINE
The deliverables should be submitted as a single Zip file by 30th August, (6:00 PM GMT) to email ID: usid_designchallenge@usidfoundation.org .The file must be not larger than 10 Mb in size.

Individual or maximum 4 members JURY AND SELECTION CRITERIA
The entries will be judged by a jury composed of members from (eminent design, technology and User Experience and accessibility professionals) from industry & academia. The Jury will choose three winners who will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd ranks. Each entry will be judged based on the Creativity, Ingenuity, Innovation, Feasibility, Impact & User Experience and Feasibility of implementation.
Disclaimer: This competition shall not constitute a commitment or create a joint venture, partnership, agency or other media or business relationship between the participants and the organizers or judging companies of this competition. This competition shall not either be understood to grant to any participant whether expressly or by implication any ownership, rights or license to any intellectual property rights of any of the organizers, judging companies and vice versa. None of the Information which may be disclosed or exchanged by the parties shall constitute any representation, warranty, assurance, guarantee or other inducement by any party to any other of any kind, and, in particular, with respect to the infringement of any trademarks, patents, copyrights or any other intellectual property rights, or other rights of either party.

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From 6 to 11 october 2009 Naples will host the first edition of "Design Per. Settimana Internazionale della Grafica" (Design For. International Week of Graphic Design). The event, unique in Italy and rare in Europe, is organized by AIAP (the Italian Association of Graphic Designers).
Graphic design its everywhere in our daily life, although its more and more intangible. Design Per wants to make graphic design's role evident, by involving people in a series of discussions, talks, seminars. Design Per will investigate fields and practices of graphic design with conferences, round tables, exhibitions, workshops, open studios, typographic walks, projections. Design Per will host more then 50 speakersdesigners, professors, authors -who will show us some of the several possibilities graphic design takes life today.
Four workshops on different themes, connected to four round tables and seven exhibitions. Design for books with Henrik Kubler, design for environment with Maxime Lemoyne and Guillame Bullat (Voiture 14), design for enterprise wih the i-Profit laboratoire, design for new languages with René van Engelenburg and Gijs ten Cate (Dropstuff).
The event will held in some of the most important locations dedicated to arts in Naples. Pan, the Palace of the Arts, will be the hearth of the event, which will takes place also at the Madre Museum of contemporary arts, at the Second University of Naples (SUN).

But several other places will be involved all around the town.
To know more take a look at http:

[ Submission and Review Process]
The submission will be processed with two steps. First, please prepare a short description proposal and submit it to our online system by August 31. The committee will review the proposals and notify you the preliminary review results within one week. Then, we will ask you to upload a video showcase for evaluation in detail. The final review result will be sent to the authors by September 21.

[ Preparing for Submission ]
The short proposal should be created with the template file and less than 3 pages. The contents should include following elements: • The design concept

9no Congreso Internacional "Esquina Norte"
Esquina Norte, el principal congreso independiente de diseño del noroeste del país, es una serie de conferencias y talleres prácticos celebrados cada otoño en Tijuana. Evento de talla internacional que es posible gracias a un reducido grupo de estudiantes y profesionistas que de manera comprometida y responsable, han creado un foro de inspiración para más de 3600 estudiantes. ...diseñadores gráficos, arquitectos, comunicólogos, artistas plásticos y visuales, ilustradores, videastas... Ocho exitosas ediciones han convertido a Esquina Norte en una amplia comunidad multidisciplinaria que que promueve el diálogo a través del esfuerzo conjunto con creadores internacionales, en un ambiente pocas veces igualado. Khumbu Systems, Hyderabad is seeking a user experience designer to support the company's various Rich Internet applications (RIA) development initiatives. The user experience designer will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and refining all aspects of the web and desktop application user interfaces. Applicant must be familiar with all aspects of User Interface (UI) design for the web and desktop applications, including interaction design, usage and usability studies, prototyping and graphic techniques. Please respond with your resume/CV to hr(at)khumbusystems (dot)com.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in Graphic or Industrial Design, Computer Science, HCI, Fine Arts, or equivalent experience.

Certification in HCI, Interaction design, Usability is a plus.
Technical Skills:

3+ years experience in designing User Interfaces for web and desktop applications. Experience in designing UI for applications that are optimized for rapid data entry is a plus.
Complete familiarity with web standards, usability, and Interaction Design principles.
Demonstrate ability to translate strategic and conceptual thinking into usable designs and supporting documentation.

Sufficient level of graphic design skills for the development of graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
Demonstrate an understanding of the balance between business goals, design requirements, and user objectives.

2+ years of experience in Microsoft Expression Blend 2.0 or Microsoft Expression Studio 2.0, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight and XAML.
Knowledge of standard software configuration management procedures and various aspects of the software development lifecycle; Strong exposure to task analysis, heuristic evaluations, interface audit and cognitive walk-through.

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We are looking for Senior Usability Engineer/Associate consultant in our team with 4 to 5 years of experience in UI and Usability. If interested pls. mail your profile to usability@ibsplc.comn or to me.

One of reputed company in Hyderabad is looking for DB developers with 4 yrs of good experience.
Please share your profiles to nisha2003@gmail. com or reach out to Nisha@ 9989098123.

Seeking Interaction designers for short term project -Mumbai
EchoUser India is looking for multiple interaction designers for a short term project based out of Mumbai. Ideally the designers should have 3-5+ years industry experience with all or some experience in the mobile domain.
This will be a short term project with the Indian office of 'EchoUser', a San Francisco based design consulting firm (www.echouser. com). This vacancy concerns the design, development and validation of an end-user development environment for tangible interfaces that is tailored to the needs and capabilities of therapists. The PhD student will be placed in the User Centred Engineering Group, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology. The student will spend up to 24 months in placements at industry participating in the project.

All interested candidates may send their resumes or write for further information to: Nitin
The project will follow a user centred design approach in which therapists will be involved in all stages. Particularly interesting for this project is to enable the operation of a community of innovation in which therapists and technology providers can pool resources and capabilities. The project will have a strong focus on validation of the concepts through field studies especially with a view to develop generalizable knowledge about how to structure and facilitate this type of co-development process. To put it simply, we seek Visualisers who, in turn, seek a challenging work place with psychotic clients, madhatter colleagues, crazy work hours and frequent learning opportunities.

Requirements
We prefer: • People with at least one consuming passion besides what they churn out at work • An interest in all media, new trends, changes in the macro and micro environment • A hunger for information • Foodies • Ability to decode briefs, take meetings, and present creatives, once in a while You can expect: • Well-respected brands • Portfolio-friendly work • Generally chilled out seniors (who can still whup your ass if you get too cocky, mister) • Good looking colleages • Free samosas, maggi and assorted junkfood in the evenings • Late nights only once in a while (We prefer to leave office by 8 PM, unless someone is dying or intends to kill if we do) So if you think you are 'The One' ready to pop the red pill, prepared to find out how deep the rabbit-hole goes, do get in touch. All you need is an experience of 2-3 years and a passion for good designs.
To know about the requirement, go here: http://www.itsaugus t.com/careers. php

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About SAS SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®. Across the enterprise, across industries and across the globe, SAS® gives our customers the power to make the right decisions. Job Scope-UI Manager • Provides direction to usability group employees using established policies and procedures. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall quality and efficiency. Assignments are received in taskoriented terms. Erroneous decisions or recommendations, or failure to achieve results might cause delays in schedules. Accomplishes results through employees at various levels.

SAS R&D India
• Provides product usability, evaluation and support to development teams for assigned products / solutions. Creates, evaluates and modifies prototypes to support evolving software application development. Develops user profiles, with emphasis on human error control, display issues, visual interaction, and task and objective analyses. Develops and applies software design/usability processes in the investigation of technical problems. Produces specifications describing the appearance and behavior of the user interface for a product in development. Clarice has emerged as a leading company in the space of User-Centered Design & UI Development. In this short span, Clarice has grown to more than 25 member team of UCD designers/UI developers. We have executed multiple assignments for start-up product companies as well as large multinational enterprises. We primarily work with product companies who consider User Experience as their core competitive strategy and provide creative solutions from HCI & technology domain.

Clarice is looking for top-notch Information Architects/Interact ion Designers for web-based products (including social networking applications) , mobile apps (iPhone, Andrioid platforms) & desktop products (for enterprise class applications) .
By virtue of being the center poles of an emerging and growing organization, you would be counted on taking up significant responsibilities and Clarice assures you of exciting career growth path in the usability value chain.
We are looking at two profiles for specific opportunities:

Design Lead for Mobile Internet Device (MID) applications on Android platform
Responsibilities: • Information architecture and interaction design for MID applications

1) Company Brief:
Magick Woods, head quartered in Toronto, Canada are designers and builders of finest quality bathroom and kitchen furniture.
We have our design centre in Toronto with manufacturing and sourcing centers at Toronto, Shanghai and Chennai, India comprising of five factories in Canada, one in India and two in China. This unique winning combination has made our products popular and well accepted all over North America and as a testimony we are one of the preferred vendors for many a large US retailers such as Home Depot, Menards etc.
Our designing methods of blending current trends with timeless classics coupled with our quest for perfection in manufacturing technology keeps us abreast of competition. Quantum sales growth in last 3 years in a row is essentially the befitting accolade for unmatched quality in design, workmanship and delivery. Today we are the fastest growing company in this segment in the North American market.
Our Indian subsidiary has a state of the art manufacturing facility at Chennai producing and exporting some of the best selling vanities in the entry level and mid-end ranges to the US market.
Today Magick Woods has evolved to a kitchen and bath solutions company that offers the entire gamut of products including accessories in these segments.
2) Vacancy details: Clarification of quality and other standards pertaining to final products in case of any confusion.
Exp. from furniture industry would be an added advantage. Should have hands-on knowledge of 2D and 3D software relevant in industry. • Should be a fast learner of our products and manufacturing systems.

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We are hiring a Sr. Web developer with sound knowledge of UX concepts, XHTML, JS, CSS, W3c Standards, Photoshop, Basics of flash animation. Interested candidates please look into thumbimpression. com and post your resumes. This is for Bangalore and for one of the world's best companies to work.

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looking for a freelance design consultant who can support us in one of our projects related to indic computing. If you are passionate about indic computing and have prior experience with indlinux/dtp softwares please get in touch with us. aurobinda@gmail.com 13.
WE are an interdisciplinary Architectural design in North Bangalore firm looking for architects/designer s/draftsmen.
Our work ranges from architectural, landscape master planning, interior, furniture, exhibition design.
We are looking for committed and enthused individuals willing to explore and gain from involving at varied levels in a firm that is small but intensely into design. Interested candidates should forward their resume to "Murali.Raghavan@Honeywell.com " 15 Upcoming outsourcing solutions company is coming up in Thane. We have a wide range of capacities from Industrial Design to Mass production capacities. We are looking forward to developing a strong base of designers and manufacturers to meet the requirements of the industry.

About Us
At SAP, we have over 15 years experience in the manufacturing engineering business helping all sizes of company deal with all the issues that global sourcing will throw at them. At SAP we specialize in sourcing engineered products from India and China, both machined and raw products, forgings, castings, fabrication, plastics and whole portfolio of Industrial and Domestic products. 9890457326 saketbhore@gmail.com, saketbhore@yahoo.co.in 16.
A female industrial designer is required for a leading electronics consumer durable company. *Location:* Gurgaon *Job Functions:* Industrial Design, Product Development, Design design. It boasts of a highly creative environment, a talented team and one of the best infrastructures in the country. KDC is looking for expanding its team and looking for a talented and passionate Visual designer.

Summary
The role of a Visual designer is highly creative in nature. Visual designer will be responsible for conceptualizing, illustrating, presenting and implementing themes, graphics, icons etc for mobile phone interfaces. Visual designer will also work very closely with the User Experience designers (and Industrial designers) for prototyping and presentation of the user experience design concepts. He/She must be perseverate, hardworking and flexible to adapt to the business needs and opportunities.

Microsoft India Development Center Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is a key part of
Microsoft's future strategic direction. Located in a sprawling 50-acre state-of-the-art campus at Gachibowli, Hyderabad, its designed to mirror Redmond quality standards, our 1400-plus employees get to work in a lively and fun-filled environment which combines the best of technology with great recreational amenities and helps them achieve the desired work-life balance.
At MSIDC the designers and user researchers are part of a Central User Experience Team, where they work on diverse range of products from incubation projects, to simple or complex consumer and enterprise applications on web, mobile, desktop environment. The design team has their own usability lab fitted with latest equipments. Designers work as a integral part of the team that have end-to-end responsibility for every product, feature or technology they develop. Designers own the UX strategy, are responsible for gathering customer requirements, conceptualizing, designing the UX, testing it and seeing it through implementation and release of the product to the market. The designers at India Development Center are integral part of more than 800 designers that Microsoft globally has, which enables them to constantly learn from and leverage the internal knowledge and design inspiration sources.
What you will be working on The UX team at Microsoft India Development Center is looking for a few self motivated, dynamic and extremely passionate individuals to help deliver world-class Office Mobile and CRM solutions.

Office mobile
The product team at MSIDC owns the charter of `Mobile Office' and is currently working on defining the next generation of Microsoft Office Mobile release. As a UX Designer, you will be involved with defining and driving the next generation of Microsoft Office Mobile and other products to help Mobile Information Worker be more productive.

CRM
The product team at MSIDC owns a significant part of the Microsoft CRM strategy and is currently working on defining the next generation of Microsoft CRM. As a UX designer, you will be involved in designing experiences for document collaboration, provide data auditing, implement new and exciting data visualization modules and drive forward Contact Center business application features opening new markets for Microsoft.
The ideal candidates are the ones who have a good blend of design sensitivity, user empathy and technical skills, affinity for new technology and innovation and demonstrated expertise in understanding and solving complex problems. (S)he should be a thought leader who can develop compelling user experiences and can create/sell a strong user experience vision and roadmap. So if you love challenges of working in cross group, cross cultural environment, have a passion for new technology and gadgets, this position is just right for you. Responsibilities: -In this position, you will be a part of the product development team to define the feature and scope of these products. -Be responsible for driving the process around gathering user data. Whether its collaborating with UX Researchers to drive usability testing or leading cross disciplinary team to do contextual enquiries at customer premises.

Review and translate PRDs into user models and wireframes Create Visual Design that address user and business goals Present design rationale and obtain stakeholder buy-ins Generate cross browser compatible XHTML/CSS Work closely with cross functional teams Conduct UI assurance
To apply, email your resume and portfolio urls to Muthukumar Rajamani at murajama(at) cisco(dot) com 22 About eMids (www.emids.com www.emids.in) eMids is an industry leader in the "convergence" of IT and consulting for the health care industry, and provides diversified Information Technology (IT) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services. eMids offers a complete range of services by leveraging our health care domain expertise, strong global delivery methodology and partnerships with leading technology providers. Our mission is to provide high quality and cost optimized services to the health care universe by leveraging the eMids Global Engagement Model. UI Developer job description (2-5 yrs): eMids technologies (Bangalore) is looking for a UI developer with passion towards developing cutting edge health care application User Interfaces. Please review the job description below and revert back with the following required details at the earliest. Send your resume and details to prakash.mandal@ emids.com and ravi.shyam@emids. com Current Employer: Current CTC: Expected CTC: Willing to relocate: Yes/No *Freshers with matching skills and a passion towards User Interface Development can also apply Mandatory Skills: Indo-European Chamber of Commerce & Industry (IECCI), a registered non-profit and non-government organisation is engaged in business support services, capacity building, export market development, consultancy and related activities.
For its capacity development projects in the field of handicrafts it intends to empanel the designers in the below mentioned fields for various short and long term assignments from 1 month to 2 years: Looking for a freelance designer, who should be an expert in flash with hands on experience in either action script 2.0 or 3.0. Preferablly someone from Bangalore would be an advantage. This is purely for some freelance assignements and not a full time job. The JD to be very precise is someone who has worked on dynamic websites based on Flash-Actionscript and XML. Those interested, feel free to call me in person on my cell phone number below. Or mail me if you need more information or would like to discuss the opportunity. 0 98456 74417 (More jobs are available in our website www.designforall.in )