Design studies with different focus, anbd intended usage context were conducted as an integrated approach to concept development, technical implementation, and evaluation. This very early form of formative evaluation is an important element of the participatory design methodology of MATURE and brings end users, experts on individual and organizational learning, and developers into an intensive and creative discussion process. The following design studies are being conducted:

	A semantic media wiki for maturing career guidance knowledge in use
	People tagging and collaborative competence management
	Freefolio a personal learning environment based on WordPress
	OLMEntor - a demonstrator for the organisational learning and maturing environment
	Interacting widgets and integration
	Work-integrated learning and knowledge maturing
	Dialog games for ontology maturing
	Kasimir Pattern-based task management