-
“…infrastructures simultaneously shape and are shaped by — in other words, co-construct — the condition of modernity… To be modern is to live within and by means of infrastructures, and therefore to inhabit, uneasily, the intersection of these mul
-
Barry Schwartz on defaults and choice architecture. Clever cartoon too.
-
“So designers, choose the choices carefully. Whatever users get when they don’t make a choice is probably what most people will end up with. And contrary to popular belief, most people don’t actually want to make more choices.”
-
“Recency bias is a tool we can use to improve user comprehension and overall satisfaction. By considering the sequence of information… and the (intentional?) placement of distractors, we can avoid common pitfalls in user judgments and decision making.”
-
When will the entertainment industry learn?
-
“Today, if you’re an urban dweller in a city like London, New York or like me, living here in Tokyo you probably make a conscious effort to disconnect.” Thanks to Mayo for the link.
-
“Tapping into young people’s already considerable status anxiety and offering rewards that can only be realised by shopping is a recipe for a lifetime of misery, not… adults whose instinct is to ask, “How can I help?” rather than, “What’s in i
-
Extremely interesting wide-ranging article by Ralph Caplan about signage, correcting errors in design, usability, perceived affordances, and so on. Thanks to Mayo for the link.
-
“We want to avoid, or at least minimize, the startling systematic mistakes that science is discovering. If we know the common patterns of error or self-deception, maybe we can work around them ourselves, or build social structures for smarter groups.”
-
“In Japan, the camera on mobile phones can be as high as 5.2M Pixels and they could be used for sneak shots such as spy shots and/or dirty pictures… Japanese manufacturer have stopped the disabling of shutter sound in silent mode” Via dev.null.org
-
Appalling usability, use/damage marks and an officious anti-photography security guard - so many interesting things rolled into one story!
-
“When people are made to be self-aware, they are likelier to stop and think about what they are doing… a shift away from acting on autopilot toward more desirable ways of behaving.” Via nudges.wordpress.com
How do people use products, systems and environments?
How can designers influence interaction?
How can we design for sustainable behaviour?
Home | About this blog | Archives 2005-
Sustainable Design Network, 13th seminar: Design Behaviour - Making it happen
17th October 2008
Loughborough University, Leics
Presentation: Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Easier Efficiency by Influencing Interaction
Human-Centred Design Institute 2008-9 public seminar series
28th October 2008
Brunel University, London
Presentation: Design with Intent: How designers can influence interaction and help users help themselves
Journal & conference papers
Making the user more efficient: Design for Sustainable Behaviour
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering (2008)
Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
Persuasive 2008, LNCS 5033 (2008)
Magazine articles
Architectures of Control in Product Design
Engineering Designer (2006)
Designs on your... freedom
Gown Magazine (2005)
Presentations & posters
Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
Presentation given at Persuasive 2008, Oulu, Finland (2008)
Design for Sustainable Behaviour
Poster presented at ResCon, Brunel University engineering & design conference (2008)
Design with Intent: Behaviour-Shaping through Design [coming soon]
Presentation given at New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living, Lancaster, UK (2008)
More writing...
The fight back: Dongle sharing Finestrino Bloccato Embedding control in society: the end of freedom links for 2008-07-08 Dan Lockton: Writing User-Centred Design for Sustainable Behaviour About fulminate // Architectures of Control 'Breathalyser phone stops drinkers making embarrassing calls' - LG LP4100 Locking out IE users links for 2008-06-27
DDDepressionnn: There has come winter 
It became cold and cloudy! Mood very bad Depression Begins
John Kane: Norwich Union is trying to refine the risk of motoring, with the major cost benefit to them. Another...
None of 1: None of 3, are you a pain in the bloody neck! Go back and read the freaking manual, mate! The video was...
Mary: Hello, I am in the USA and I have nearly exactly the same problem with the HTC. (Although I no longer love this...
None of 3: Well, then why didn’t you put it back???
trash it: I always used epsom because you stood for cheaper better printing with separate colour, no cartridges...
Earl: So I am passing someone with a car coming right at me and it limits my speed and I have a head on collision....
我是UI: 推荐20个关于网站可用性及界面设计的网站
互联网的那点事…: 20个帮你掌握用户界面设计的网站
山歌好比春江水: 推荐20个关于网站可用性及界面设计的网站
网生代: 20个帮你掌握用户界面设计的网站
BrianGilham.com: Around the Nine #7
All Architectures of Control | Design with Intent posts
Fulminate posts only
View blog authority
Upcoming presentations
Sustainable Design Network, 13th seminar: Design Behaviour - Making it happen
17th October 2008
Loughborough University, Leics
Presentation: Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Easier Efficiency by Influencing Interaction
Human-Centred Design Institute 2008-9 public seminar series
28th October 2008
Brunel University, London
Presentation: Design with Intent: How designers can influence interaction and help users help themselves
Recent articles & presentations
Journal & conference papers
Making the user more efficient: Design for Sustainable Behaviour
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering (2008)
Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
Persuasive 2008, LNCS 5033 (2008)
Magazine articles
Architectures of Control in Product Design
Engineering Designer (2006)
Designs on your... freedom
Gown Magazine (2005)
Presentations & posters
Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context
Presentation given at Persuasive 2008, Oulu, Finland (2008)
Design for Sustainable Behaviour
Poster presented at ResCon, Brunel University engineering & design conference (2008)
Design with Intent: Behaviour-Shaping through Design [coming soon]
Presentation given at New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living, Lancaster, UK (2008)
More writing...
From the archives
Recent comments
It became cold and cloudy! Mood very bad Depression BeginsRecent trackbacks
Subscribe
All Architectures of Control | Design with Intent posts
Fulminate posts only
View blog authority
Dan Lockton
About me | Writing
PhD research | dan@danlockton.co.uk
Other stuff
Mostly in need of an update
Rebel Without Applause: Reliant from Inception to Zenith | British Petrol Stations: Design & Branding History | Cambridge-MIT Institute 2005 MPhil Directory | Incluminate Lighting Backup
Re: The set of things/ideas/concepts/relationships/solutions/sets that have been named/defined is much, much, much smaller than the set of actual things/ideas/concepts/relationships/solutions/sets.
In mathematics, there is a theorem that states that the number of computable numbers (and therefore, the numbers that can be named) is countable, but the total number of (real) numbers is uncountable.
You can always name more, or compute more numbers, but they can always be counted.
As to what that means in your field, I am not sure - perhaps Sokol can explicate.