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BUX BLOG

The BUX Blog is a hub for instruction, case studies, and international perspectives on cycling experience.

Since 2017 the BUX Blog has collected stories, shown examples, and piloted methods on cycling experience. We have explored how to make cycling infrastructure that people will use, detailed concrete approaches to research community cycling needs, and looked at international cases through the end user's perspective.

Explore the blog posts spread across the following categories:

Cases: Case studies of BUX methods around the world.
Mini Lessons: Mini lessons on user experience and making cycling for everyone.
News: Updates, announcements and the latest news at BUX.
Reviews: Reviews about cycling infrastructure manuals, practical designs, and knowledge materials.
Stories: International perspectives, research, and personal stories on cycling experience.

Tackling Societal Challenges With A Simple Tool

Trey Hahn

Jan 7, 2020
2 min

Tackling Societal Challenges With A Simple Tool

#BUXBasics #WhyItMatters #Theory In today's world, we face no shortage of challenges. Governments are strapped for money, public health crises are growing, social tension is leading to conflict, and our living environments are getting more crowded and polluted. We need to find a way to address these challenges and we cannot sacrifice the standard of living and quality of life that we are all working so hard to reach. This is not at easy task, and we only have finite resources

Trey Hahn

Jan 2, 2020
2 min

Feelings & People

#BUXBasics #Theory How do you feel while riding a bike? Our emotions play a major factor in how we choose to get around, yet they are often discounted by transportation planners that are focused on numbers and travel models. Bicycle User Experience (BUX) hopes to help fill this gap and make everyday biking a reality by taking insights from User Experience Design, Usability, Service Design, and Human Centered Design, and applying them to street design. By studying people and f

User Experience Manifested in Street Designs

Trey Hahn

Dec 10, 2019
2 min

User Experience Manifested in Street Designs

#BUXBasics #Theory Where and how is the idea of user experience manifested in street design for people riding bikes? Can certain street designs elicit positive emotions and make biking an attractive, practical, convenient activity? One crude way of assessing this is by observing people. From cues such as people's posture, body language, clothing and riding style, you can get a general idea of if someone is stressed, relaxed, happy, etc. How do we feel while cycling, and how d

Trey Hahn

Dec 10, 2019
1 min

Bicycling for Everyone

#BUXBasics #Theory The goal of designing for cycling experience should be Biking for Everyone. Regardless of your age, ability, culture, economic status, or beliefs, you should be able to reap the benefits that everyday biking can provide. While this is a very high-level goal, The Netherlands is a place that probably comes closest to resembling it in practice. So, let's take a look at the practice of riding a bike there to begin to visualize what cycling experience might look

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BUX BLOG

​The BUX Blog is a hub for instruction, case studies, and international perspectives on cycling experience.

The BUX Blog is a hub for instruction, case studies, and international perspectives on cycling experience.