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Cialdini on the Beach

Self-monitoring is one of the most common persuasive techniques used in interface design: basically, giving people feedback on what they’re doing and what they’ve done. There are lots of issues about which kinds of feedback work best, in what circumstances, pairing it with feedforward, i.e. ‘What would happen if I did this?’ information, and so [...]

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The Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9

■ How to influence user behaviour ■ 12 inspirational design patterns in poster form (plus 35 more) ■ Grouped into 6 ‘lenses’ giving different perspectives Download the poster (it’s a 1.3 MB PDF) - now also includes A4 pages for each lens, for easier printing Start with the problem You have a product, service or environment—a system—where users’ behaviour is [...]

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• Over on the Design & Behaviour list/group, Jamie Young of the RSA has started a discussion about the UK's 'smart meter' plans, on which the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is running a consultation. (more...) #
• Hi everyone - the blog's undergoing a bit of a redesign (using The Morning After) in order to allow some new features and tidy up some of the bodges that had accumulated over the last few years. It was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the heavily altered version of 3ColumnK2 I was using, which was giving me a lot of headaches trying to get it to render correctly in IE6 (still around 7% of site visitors). For the next couple of days there may be lots of links that don't work, and features missing (there's also something wrong with some of the permalinks), so please do bear with me. At present it looks like posting a comment takes you to a blank page; the comment will still appear, but clearly this isn't satisfactory so I'll try to work out what's wrong as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience! #