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This paper presents NoBis, a new service for monitoring the crowding of indoor spaces in the COVID-19 era. The name links the concept of “We” to the desire of not having an “Encore” of the first lockdown experienced worldwide in March 2020. NoBis is a REST-based web application which provides tools for allowing “Referents” to manage places to be monitored and, at the same time, for allowing end users to consult in real time the crowding state related to monitored places. The entire platform is based on the use of QR codes which users scan each time they enter (Check-in operation) and exit (Check-out operation) from a monitored place. NoBis is implemented in JavaScript both for the front end, with the help of libraries such as JQuery, and the back-end, through the use of Node.js. This choice allowed for a more agile and”lightweight” development, in accordance with the time constraints required by the project. During the month of September 2020 a preliminary testing phase took place at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova. NoBis represents a valuable tool to monitor crowding in libraries and similar enclosed places accessible to the public.

This paper presents a design proposal of a future family car. The target audience of this application are families with children, so that different customer needs must be satisfied, like as good performances, reliability, spaciousness, eco-sustainability, safety and regulations for infants. The reference segment of the family car is the C / E of the Stan-dards ISO 3833: 1977. The first methodology used in this paper is the QFD, to determine the fundamental characteristics of our proposal. Then, with a Benchmarking analysis, we highlighted the most advantageous – top – and most disadvantageous – flop – solutions in terms of our product. The brand that emerged as the most suitable to meet the most influential characteristics from a customer perspective is Volkswagen. Subsequently, we proceeded using the tool of the SDE. Some features of different stylistic trends have been analyzed and merged to present our 7-seats, 4-wheel drive and 2-volume family car proposal, named “T-Golf”.