About is-design
We don’t deliver ready-made solutions.
Every client, every product, every user is unique. Together with our clients we work at solutions that aim to look at the complete picture - sometimes with unexpected results.
Our particular strengths are years of experience in different application areas, a design process that includes and involves the users, measurable results and a worldwide network of experts from various disciplines.
The result: sometimes unexpected, sometimes obvious. But in any case appropriate to the challenge in hand.
Good design makes life easier (for the user).
The is-design team
Veronika Egger MSc
Information designer, founder and managing director of is-design
Bi-lingual, German and English
CV Veronika Egger (pdf, 57 KB)
Mag. Monika Hancock
Conducts readability interviews for is-design, supports research and other projects
Sociologoist and trained nurse
Bi-lingual, German and English
Victoria Hardman
Recruits English and German speaking participants for readability testing
Bi-lingual,
English and German
Lukas Ettl
Research assistant
Sociology student
From our client list
Bayer Austria, Bundesministerium für Inneres (BMI), Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz (BMASK), Cyathus, Dr. Peithner, Finkler, Hexal, Horx Zukunftsinstitut, Merck Austria, MGC, ÖBB, Porr, Sandoz, Sanova, Schmidt Reuter, Schwabe Pharmaceuticals, Therme Wien, Umicore, Unaxis, Wiener Linien, and more.
Publications
Egger V, Ehrenstrasser L., Schrom-Feiertag H., Telepak G., „Creating a Richer Data Source for 3D Pedestrian Flow Simulations in Public Transport“ Paper given at the Measuring Behaviour Conference 2010, also published as an ACM digital library publication, “Selected papers from the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral research (Digital Edition)”.
Bright, K., Egger, V., Using visual contrast for effective, inclusive environments; Information Design Journal (idj) Volume 16:3, pp 178-189, 2008
Egger, V. Point of View – Large Print Patient Information Leaflets (PIL).
In T. Porathe (Ed.) Applications of Information Design 2008: Selected papers from the international conference at Maelardalen University in Eskilstuna,
Sweden 25-28 June 2008. Eskilstuna: Malardalen University Press. ISBN: 978-91-86135-31-7
Egger, V., Ehrenstrasser L., b.unt – barrierefrei unterwegs, barrierefreie Information im Verkehrssystem (pdf 2 MB, German),
study carried out on behalf of IIID for the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, 2007
Current research
ways2go – Innovation and Technology for Evolving Mobility Needs,
Research programme funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology.
MASIMO: Multiagent Simulation Model for Group Specific Mobility and Orientation Behaviour. is-design is project partner.
Communication Benchmarks: global research project initiated and run be the Communication Research Institute
on the readability and understandability of credit card statements.
Press release "Credit card statements fail consumers".