In October of each year, Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. The biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2500 designers to more than 300,000 visitors from home and abroad. In more than hundred locations across the city, DDW organises and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events, debates and festivities.
The DDW App 2017 combines best methods in mobile technology to deliver relevant information at the right time to the visitors at the various venues that are hosting these events.
The DDW App presents several design routes and let visitors to find their desirable design exhibition and activities.
The DDW App 2017 functionalities are as follows:
Beacon Technology: Proximity based sensors allow visitors to receive relevant notifications at DDWs locations. Therefore, DDW attendees never miss any events or activities. The beacon technology helps the pre-defined routes to be much more engaging. The notifications can be disabled directly via the app settings.
“Live Map”: One of the best features of the app revolves around its map and location precisions. DDW participants are able to switch between Map and List views. This way they will find all the programs overviews.
Happening Now: There are many program schedules simultaneously on any given day during the event. The app lets visitors to find out which events are best suited for them based on the time available.
Around Me: Using Geo-Location, visitors are able to check what activities and programs are attainable within three-kilometer radius of their current location.
Advanced Search: There are different ways to explore the DDW; the attendees can find their desired activities by venue location, artist name, route, etc.
My DDW: here you find a list of all your saved/recommended event and an overview of all recommended events by other users.