Details on how to enter and the competition dates are available on the Awards Website.

BMG Production Music Web Application won the "UX Design Award | Product" 2022. BMG offers filmmakers the opportunity to choose music for their projects from over 300,000 tracks. Until now, the search took place on several historically grown platforms for different licensing regions. The new Digital Experience Platform turns all this into a holistic digital experience focusing on usability, search optimization and design. Using the latest headless technology, the platform enables the integration of external services such as an AI-supported "Similar Tracks Search".

UXDA Jury member Ole Heydekamp on the project
“One of the key features of the BMG Music App is an AI supported “Similar Tracks Search” which allows users to select tracks from the catalog, YouTube, Spotify or MP3 files. This intelligent search function using various filters, categories and keywords empowers users to let their creativity run wild, and quickly find the best music match in the catalog library. The jury was particularly impressed by the solution’s coherent focus on the needs of a very specific target group. By applying agile development with continuous user testing and iterations, the design team created a service that is very user-friendly and supports task completion in a very efficient way.”

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After the first two stations in Shanghai and Beijing, it will host the third Berlin in China event in Chengdu. The topic: "Design City Berlin ".

The event is co-hosted by Choco H. Zhang and Alexander Glaser from prespace ARCHITEKTEN, both Berlin Ambassadors for the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle.

Ingrid Delfs, Deputy Consul General from the German Consulate General in Chengdu will give a welcome address, Ake Rudolf, Head of Strategy at International Design Center Berlin (IDZ), will deliver a keynote speech, and Choco H. Zhang will present the story of prespace in Berlin and China.

Furthermore, in a panel discussion, representatives from the design community in Berlin and Chengdu will introduce the architecture and design business landscape in Berlin and discuss the opportunities and challenges of cooperation between Germany and China in the creative industry.

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We have diatoms to thank for every fourth breath we take. After all, these microscopic single-celled photosynthetic organisms produce about a quarter of the world's oxygen. Yet, although diatoms are essential for the carbon cycle, they are only known to a small circle of people. This installation makes it possible to interact with digitally generated diatom models and examine the living microcosm surrounding us in real-time.

UXDA Jury member Oliver Gerstheimer about the project:

"JEWELS presents an ingenious interaction and experience on several levels: it enlarges small yet essential elements of life, making them understandable for laymen and scientists alike. Its hybrid and interactive setup brings diatoms – a species largely unknown to humans – to life in an impressive way, presenting their unique aesthetics and being in a didactic and playful way. The microcosm of diatoms is processed in real time and transmitted as a live microscopic image, creating a fascinating and tangible user a 3D experience."

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Details on how to enter and the competition dates are available on the Awards Website.

On December 5, the winners of the German Ecodesign Award 2022 will be announced and honored. 28 projects have been nominated and have the chance to be awarded the highest state award for ecological design by Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke and UBA President Prof. Dr. Dirk Messner. You can find out more about the nominees in our online gallery.

Due to the pandemic, the award ceremony can only take place in a small circle. On the website and social media channels of the German Ecodesign Award you will find out which projects have been awarded at the same time as the event.

MAKE is mobile banking designed to accommodate the Thai young generation’s financial needs. Giving back the power once dictated by the bank to the users, MAKE revives how users truly interact with money in 3 areas: sharing beyond personal matters, casual and flexible finance, and humanized banking experience. The team also aims to nurture a user community to bring users closer to the app team and have them co-design MAKE’s future iterations.

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The inspiration of our Member of the month March 2023: Anja Muschiol
On the basis of 700 recordings, the exhibition illuminates the development of the record as a medium for art from the post-war period to the present day. The panorama is expanded by sound works from the National Gallery's extensive collection, including room-filling sound installations and immersive media works. The exhibition is intended as a tribute to artists and vinyl enthusiasts, but also as documentation of the renewed attention paid to the record as a niche product and collector's item.

The inspiration of our Member of the month March 2023: Anja Muschiol
On the basis of 700 recordings, the exhibition illuminates the development of the record as a medium for art from the post-war period to the present day. The panorama is expanded by sound works from the National Gallery's extensive collection, including room-filling sound installations and immersive media works. The exhibition is intended as a tribute to artists and vinyl enthusiasts, but also as documentation of the renewed attention paid to the record as a niche product and collector's item.

With the new Seven.One Interaction Ecosystem, content on TV becomes interactive, and viewers become users. The system allows an editor to quickly and easily influence the course and content of a show with just a few clicks, involving viewers with real-time polls, quizzes, votes, and so on. Interactions can be triggered immediately and at any time, changing the dramaturgy of a program.

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We are looking for imaginative ideas and projects that are outstandingly designed and forward-looking. In addition to market-ready products and services, this also includes conceptual and student work. Design innovations are just as much in demand as technical and social innovations. There are no limits to creativity!

More information about the award at: bundespreis-ecodesign.de/en

https://www.sdcblog.de/hybrid-blick-nach-vorn-n6/

Discussion about aesthetics and the value of re-use in construction business and architecture.