Design Process Journal Walkway Mobility City
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Discover<br />
Define<br />
Develop<br />
Deliver<br />
Gergana Tatarova<br />
PDE3<br />
<strong>Mobility</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
Brief outline<br />
The project task was to design or improve an<br />
existing mode of public transport aiding to<br />
improve the experience of disabled people<br />
moving around the city. The improvement<br />
implemented should also make the travelling<br />
experience better for all.<br />
lmportant skill<br />
Disability rights<br />
and transport<br />
The research area of my group<br />
Brian Loranger’s Ethnographic design lectures/workshops gave us an insight into how broad and<br />
incredibly important the research phase for a good, user orientated (as all should be), design is.<br />
Also, the lectures taught us practical skills of how to properly do desk and field research, which was<br />
really helpful for this project, and I’m sure - will be for the future<br />
Approach<br />
We were split into 4 teams for initial<br />
group research of 4 areas.<br />
We had to gather all the useful<br />
information and insights into a<br />
presentation to share with the rest of our<br />
classmates.<br />
Urban transport<br />
trends<br />
Strathclyde Partnership for<br />
Transport past and future<br />
of accessibility<br />
Universal / Inclusive<br />
<strong>Design</strong> in transport around<br />
the world<br />
Desk research Field research Emphatic modelling<br />
Disabled people do have rights regarding<br />
transportation, help is available, but not with ease.<br />
You always need to call in advance in order to receive<br />
proper handling i.e. 48h before your flight.<br />
Everyone is willing to help, just facilities aren’t always<br />
available.<br />
lnsight<br />
Every person in a wheelchair was accompanied by<br />
somebody else.<br />
Going through the barriers always slow people down,<br />
especially with luggage, prams, bicycles.<br />
Staff is friendly and always willing to help.<br />
lnsight<br />
Doors for disabled toilets are ridiculously heavy and difficult to<br />
operate.<br />
Too smooth of a surface - not enough friction to properly move<br />
around, if there’s a slope it gets impossible.<br />
Surface too uneven - you get motion sickness.<br />
Guide dogs are allowed everywhere except on<br />
escalators.<br />
Station gets crowded and empty in a wave pattern.<br />
Difficult to hear announcements<br />
I didn’t experience much travelling difficulty while having my<br />
foot broken moving around with crutches. Everyone around was<br />
extremely considerate, which made it easier.
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