Tuesday, 22 April 2008

How 2 Projects Came Togheter

On November 2007 I blogged about the User Centric Innovation Methodology as used for the first time during the development of the Self Service Drop Point for Schiphol Airport. This project started in 2004 and I was project leader and senior (conceptual) designer connecting all disciplines togheter into one new self service solution: http://designed-innovation.blogspot.com/2007/11/user-centric-innovation-methodology.html

After finishing the project the co-operation between MMID and me ended and I have not been involved but followed the project. After the feasibility study, Schiphol performed a pilot and now a complete new company is created to develop, manufacture and market the SSDOP and renamed it the Bagdrop. Where we took care off loads of conceptual challenges the tested and improved solution just looks very cool.....



With Mbarc we exhibited on the http://www.passengerterminal-expo.com/ and had a lot of interest in scanning solutions for mobile boarding passes. The Bagdrop Company http://www.bagdrop.com/ also chose the Passenger Terminal Expo to launch the third generation SSDOP spectacular. On one of my walks over the exhibition I just was amazed to see my Baby back again. Talking long with the Bagdrop managing director we really connected there and made an appointment to go through all about the initial phase and the product now, we also said we should co-operate and integrate Mbarc's OEM paper- and mobile boarding card scanner into the Bagdrop.

So now you now how 2 project came togheter.

Here a couple of pics just to show how well designed this product is.