How Can a User Centred Approach Drive Sustainable Design?

To celebrate WUD 2009 System Concepts will host a podcast exploring how different stakeholders can enhance the user experience of their designs by including sustainability as a key requirement.

We will be interviewing key players in usability, sustainability, product design and standards about their efforts to design for a sustainable world.  Our interviewees include:

• Professor Ben Shneiderman - User Interface guru from the University of Maryland
• John Thackara - Designer, currently senior advisor on sustainability to the UK Design Council
• Nicolai Peitersen - CEO of Ethical Economy
• Dina Guth - Director of British design and innovation company TECAtech
• Liz Edwards, Home Editor of the UK Consumer’s Association

.....  and our own executive chairman Tom Stewart in his role as President of the Ergonomics Society.

We hope people around the world will take part in our sustainable design survey we will be running from our website during the 24 hours of World Usability Day.  Visit the System Concepts website on the day to find out more...