Competitions

Liverpool John Moores University is running a fun little participatory design experiment to design a remote control for the house of the future. You need to register with the site and select experiment 2. "This contains a control panel building tool where you create and publish your remote control design. You can also rate the work of other designers."

And talking of competitions, the reUSEIT competition to redesign Jakob Nielsen's website - 'a design eye for the usability guy' - is now in the judging phase, with a grand total of 53 entrants. Bob Sawyer somehow managed to put me onto the judges panel without me finding out. I get the feeling that by the end of this week I'll be able to quote Nielsen like I can still quote chunks of Shakespeare learned at school.