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Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis

engage and empower a public around the issue of cycling

Team

Donna Schipper
Josta Valk
Bernard Wittgen
Amber Ebrahim

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Description

Let’s redesign our streets!

Last week, we created a new low fidelity prototype. Based on existing tools like Streetmix, we were thinking of how to give people in Amsterdam, who don’t have great knowledge of urban planning and street design, a possibility to show their ideas about specific traffic situations in the city.

fotoThe next image is a screenshot of the design tool we are creating. The name Verbeter de straat is a working title.

Screen Shot 2014-04-08 at 14.52.32

The image showed above, is the screen in where users have to add traffic and road signs. They can drag the traffic signs and drop them on the road to design a better traffic situation. This turned out to be a hard part for the users. In the next sprint we’ll develop this screen. Probably we have to guide the users more through for example more specific assignments.

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You can use the (simplified) paper prototype online.

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  1. […] are now looking for ways to integrate the ideation prototype Verbeter de Straat into this prototype, and how to combine these two prototypes. We are very interested in the […]

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