[chisigmail] CHISIG Victoria: Gabriel White on "Design for Developing Countries" Tues 18 March

[Sanchez, Silvia (Hiser)]

Hi everybody,

 

We are on a roll! The next CHISIG Victoria event is coming up!

Gabriel White will be presenting next Tuesday 18 March, at the second
CHISIG Victoria meeting for 2008.

 

As per usual, there is no cost to attend the event - an optional "gold
coin" donation will be available for anyone wanting to make a little
contribution.

Below are the details for the event next week - we are looking forward
to seeing you there :-)

 

Silvia Sanchez (on behalf of VIC CHISIG Committee).

 

 

 

Topic:

-          Design for developing countries: Motorola MotoFone

 

Venue:

-          University of Melbourne

Alan Gilbert Theatre 3

Alan Gilbert Building

111 Barry St

Carlton

Map: http://www.pb.unimelb.edu.au/CampusMaps/Parkville.pdf

 

Enter the Alan Gilbert Building from the Barry St entrance. Theatre 3 is
on level one. Go up the stairs that will appear directly in front of you
- at the top of the stairs, walk around to your left and keep walking -
a clearly sign-posted entrance to the theatre will be visible in front
of you. Lift access is also available to level one.

 

Date and Time

-          Tuesday 18 March

6pm for 630pm start

 

 

Gabriel White

Gabriel is a seasoned interaction designer and world traveler. 

Currently a Principal Designer at Frog Design in San Francisco, Gabriel
has led design teams at Motorola China, worked as a visiting researcher
at Microsoft Research's Lab in Beijing, and consulted for The Hiser
Group in Australia. 

Gabriel was the interaction design lead for Motorola's MotoFone, a
product designed specifically for poor, non-literate people in
developing countries.

 

Design for developing countries: Motorola MotoFone

Half the world's population has no access to mobile phone technology,
and most of these people live in poor or developing countries. 

How do you design for people with no experience using information
technology, who are often illiterate, and have only limited resources? 

 

The Motorola MotoFone is a cell phone designed from the ground up for
people in developing countries. 

Researchers, interaction designers and industrial designers worked
closely to define a new phone platform from the ground up, and in doing
so created a unique product. 

In this talk Gabriel will discuss how the MotoFone was designed, and
then talk more broadly about some of the challenges and opportunities in
the growing movement of socially responsible design.




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