Tricycle Enjoying iPhone Success Tricycle has branched into the development of highly innovative mobile software applications over the last 6 months. Under the brand names of DocTOT and DelaerTOT several iPhone Apps have been launched over recent months (5 in total to date) and many more are in development and pending release.
Tricycle excels in the development of iPhone Apps because the platform requires excellence in usability, design and engineering for a successful outcome.
Appropriate technology:
Appropriate technology is technology that is appropriate to the environmental, cultural and economic situation it is intended for. An appropriate technology, in this sense, typically requires fewer resources, which means lower cost and less impact on the environment.
In practice, it is often something that might be described as using the simplest and most benign level of technology that can effectively achieve the intended purpose in a particular location.
What exactly constitutes appropriate technology in any given case is a matter of debate, but generally the term is used by theorists to question high technology or excessive mechanization, human displacement, resource depletion or increased pollution associated with unchecked industrialisation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
Sustainable technology:
Sustainable technologies are technologies which use less energy, fewer limited resources, do not deplete natural resources, do not directly or indirectly pollute the environment, and can be reused or recycled at the end of their useful life. There is a significant overlap with appropriate technology, which emphasises the suitability of technology to the context, in particular considering the needs of people in developing countries. However, the most appropriate technology may not be the most sustainable one; and a sustainable technology may have high cost or maintenance requirements that make it unsuitable as an "appropriate technology," as that term is commonly used.
Conscientious design:
Conscientious design seeks to question the role of design in contemporary society, where consumption and personal gain are understood to predominate. Conscientious design goes in search of alternative approaches. It focuses its energies on sustainability, quality and innovation, as well as doing business in a socially involved way.
User Centred Design:
In broad terms, user-centered design (UCD) is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of an interface or document are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. User-centered design can be characterized as a multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyze and foresee how users are likely to use an interface, but to test the validity of their assumptions with regards to user behaviour in real world tests with actual users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Centred_Design
Iterative praxis:
The practice of creating several iterations and evaluations of each design in search of an optimised solution. "Iterative design, with its repeating cycle of design and testing, is the only validated methodology in existence that will consistently produce successful results." - Bruce Tognazzini
