Tag: Mobility

Mobility in Amsterdam: How the Bicycle City Becomes Electric

As beautiful as the view of Amsterdam’s canals with the beautiful brick houses around them is, they cause many problems regarding mobility. The narrow alleyways alongside the small canals have only one lane, which leads to traffic jams. A mixture of commuter and delivery traffic, as well as cr...

Case Study: Barnaround, a user-centered approach to City Mobility

On the first day of the bootcamp, Ironhack challenged us to tackle a wicked problem of our choosing, by applying a user-centered approach to it. After some discussion we settled for the following: As the relationship between the metropolis and rural areas is transforming, moving around the city...

Enhancing Urban Mobility: A UX/UI Design Overhaul for Barcelona’s Bus App

Welcome to my first blog post as part of the UX/UI Open 2023! In this post, we’ll dive into the exciting world of UX/UI design and explore how it can revolutionize the experience of using a bus app in the vibrant city of Barcelona. As urban mobility continues to shape the way we navigate ...

Case Study —Promoting Sustainable Mobility in Berlin

Berlin is the dynamic and multicultural capital of Germany. Where especially commuting in a sustainable & efficient way is a priority for its left-green dominated politics. Therefore helping to reduce the carbon footprint and increase the environmental friendly consciousness of the ...

Mobility in Copenhagen: Blueprint for Sustainable Cities

We sent podcast host and self-proclaimed “expert on everything” Markus Herrmann on a road trip across Europe to find out how cities embrace the future of urban space. In this episode, we’re in Copenhagen, a city that is known for its incredible bicycle infrastructure...

Supernal and City of Miami Agree to Enable Development of Advanced Air Mobility

WASHINGTON, DC, March 1, 2022 — Supernal announced today it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Miami to create a comprehensive engagement framework that will enable development of advanced air mobility (AAM). The MOU affords Supernal and the City the opportunity t...

#COVIDCatLady, Day 515—Mobility and Identity

515. This is how many days it’s been since I’ve been home. What used to be a 5-hour door-to-door commute is now a complicated calculation of vaccine, caseload, remote work, and quarantine. I had resigned to “resilience” at the beginning, and that held for about a full year. T...

Rise With Your Class, Not Out Of It.

The concept of social mobility places great emphasis on individual effort- being told that if you work hard then you will earn more money and thus ‘climb up’ the social ladder. ‘You’ not ‘we’, and this is the problem. In our efforts to move up in society, we negle...

A Lesser-Known Ancient Settlement Revolutionized Human Mobility

Inthe vast grasslands of the Steppes, south of the Ural mountains in present-day Russia-Kazakhstan border, archaeologists, in the 1970s, discovered over twenty settlements dated 2100 BC to 1800 BC. They named the culture after Sintashta, a circular fortified town roughly 140 m in diameter. This o...