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A survey for designers: more books to win

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 12, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Following last week’s card-sorting exercise (which went really well – thanks to everyone who took part), here’s something a bit more open-ended and ongoing.
I’m trying to find out how designers and design teams (in-house or consultancies) who’ve worked on influencing user behaviour think about what they’ve done – which techniques and patterns do people recognise [...]

Cialdini on the Beach

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 10, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

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 [...]

Sort some cards and win a copy of The Hidden Dimension

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 2, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

UPDATE: Thanks everyone – 10 participants in just a few hours! The study’s closed now – congratulations to Ville Hjelm whose book is now on its way…
If you’ve got a few minutes spare, are interested in the Design with Intent techniques, and fancy having a 1/10 chance of winning a brand-new copy of The Hidden [...]

Modelling users: Pinballs, shortcuts and thoughtfulness

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 2, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

The different approaches to influencing people’s behaviour outlined in the Design with Intent toolkit are pretty diverse. Working out how to apply them to your design problem, and when they might be useful, probably requires you, as a designer, to think of “the user” or “users” in a number of different ways in relation to [...]