New Year, new projects.
Second year is now back into the swing of things after the christmas break and its all systems go.
Working under the guidence of Dr Jon Rogers in the now named Product Design, we are now setting our targets on the "Microsoft Project".
After the success of the 2nd year Product Design last year with the project, we have again been selected by Microsoft to compete in the design competition. So our thanks go to them for giving us the opertunity.
Without exageration, we at Dundee University are representing "the world" in the competition. 5 universities have been selected and we are the only university outside of North America to be chosen, so no pressure then. As an added incentive for all the groups, the best solution will be given the opertunity to present to Microsoft in Seattle at the Design Expo 2009.
The brief is based around "new ways of working", based around the retired population. We have organised ourselves into "companies" of 4 and at Flamingo, we committed to designing the best solutions possible and hopefully a nice wee trip to Seattle as a result. A nice little carrot being dangled in front of us if I do say so myself. From the initial discussions I have had with my own granda over christmas I think this is going to be a really awesome project and how we have so much to learn from the older generations.
More shall follow as things develop.
Shh!
