Design-Behaviour website launched

Loughborough’s Dr Debra Lilley, who has done extensive research into designing for behavioural change, has just launched an excellent new website, Design-Behaviour, which brings together her research findings and some great examples of behaviour-changing products from different fields to illustrate the approaches identified. The site is:
[A] resource specifically developed to support designers and engineers in [...]

links for 2008-04-26

The Psychology of Security – Bruce Schneier
Succinct analysis. The section on heuristics and biases affecting user decisions is particularly relevant to the Design with Intent research.
(tags: schneier cognitivebias security risk heuristics)

links for 2008-04-25

Flickr: The Desire Paths Pool
Google may be a database of intentions; ‘desire paths’ are the record of user intentions which in some way conflict with what the designers intended…
(tags: desire paths desirepaths design architecture built environment inention intent)

Brian Burns’ presentation on ‘Newness or Useness’
…whereas Carleton University’s Brian Burns, in ‘From Newness to Useness
and Back Again’, [...]

links for 2008-04-23

Design for Service
Jeff Howard’s Design for Service blog – some very clear perspectives on this increasingly important way of looking at much everyday interaction design
(tags: architecturesofcontrol, design service servicedesign designwithintent interaction interactiondesign)

Seth Godin: The world’s worst toaster
Understanding how people actually use your products ought to be pretty fundamental to the design process. But it often [...]

Apologies for the delay to this service

You’re owed an apology, dear reader, for the 2-month hiatus with the blog. It’s down to a variety of reasons compounding each other, and alternately forcing me to prioritise other pressing problems, then when I tried seizing the initiative again, frustrating me with technical issues and actually preventing posting. You probably never noticed it, due [...]

Making users more efficient: Design for sustainable behaviour

I’m pleased to say that a paper I wrote earlier this year has been accepted by the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, a new journal based at Loughborough University. The publishers (Taylor & Francis) allow authors to post a preprint* version online, so here it is.
Making the user more efficient: Design for sustainable behaviour [...]