Design with Intent

Coming up for air, briefly

By Dan Lockton ⋅ April 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Thanks for all the responses to the Design with Intent Toolkit – it’s got a heartening reception from lots of very interesting people, and has brought some great opportunities. I hope to be able to deal with all this effectively!
Thanks too to all the people who’ve blogged about it, included it in a podcast, and [...]

Instructable: One-Touch Keypad Masher

By Dan Lockton ⋅ March 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s been a long time since I last wrote an Instructable, but as I’ve resolved that 2009’s going to be a year where I start making things again (2008 involved a lot of sitting, reading and annotating, and in 2007 most of what I made was for clients, and thus confidential), I thought I’d write [...]

A ‘Behaviour Change Barometer’

By Dan Lockton ⋅ August 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This is a kind of exploration of some ideas I worked on a while ago as part of my research, and have only just come back to, in order to tidy them up a bit. I’m putting it online as a way – perhaps – to get some comments/criticism, and also to enable me to [...]

Dredging up some old ideas

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 28, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Three essays I’d pretty much forgotten about, written for courses at Cambridge during my Master’s in Technology Policy, linked here for no reason in particular:
Peer Treasure: how firms outside the software industry can use open source thinking
How can we strengthen links between entrepreneurial companies and entrepreneurial universities in the UK?
Motor vehicles in the developing world: [...]

Interview with Sir Clive

By Dan Lockton ⋅ June 30, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Chris Vallance of Radio 4’s excellent iPM has done a thoughtful interview with Sir Clive Sinclair, ranging across many subjects, from personal flying machines to the Asus Eee, and touching on the subject of consumer understanding of technology, and the degree to which the public can engage with it:
Your [Chris Vallance's] generation really understood the [...]

User-Centred Design for Sustainable Behaviour

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

TU Delft’s Renee Wever and Jasper van Kuijk (who runs the insightful Uselog product usability blog), together with NTNU’s Casper Boks, have produced a very interesting paper, ‘User-Centred Design for Sustainable Behaviour’ [PDF, 400 kb] for the International Journal of Sustainable Engineering (indeed, probably in the same edition as my own paper addressing many similar [...]

Making users more efficient: Design for sustainable behaviour

By Dan Lockton ⋅ April 21, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

Persuasive 2008

By Dan Lockton ⋅ February 12, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

I’m pleased to say that I’ll be presenting a short paper, Design With Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context* at Persuasive 2008, the 3rd International Conference on Persuasive Technology, taking place from June 4th-6th in Oulu, Finland.
The paper’s a (very) brief introductory review of some of the different approaches to ‘Design with Intent‘ [...]

J G Ballard & Architectures of Control

By Dan Lockton ⋅ January 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Over at the brilliant Ballardian, editor Simon Sellars has just published my article ‘J.G. Ballard & Architectures of Control‘, where I take a brief look at how Ballard’s work repeatedly examines ‘the effect of architecture on the individual’ – something central to both the physical and psychological aspects of my research. Many thanks are due [...]

Review: Architecture as Crime Control by Neal Katyal

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 18, 2007 ⋅ 5 comments

Review: Katyal, N. K. “Architecture as Crime Control”, Yale Law Journal, March 2002, Vol 111, Issue 5.
Professor Neal Kumar Katyal of Georgetown University Law School, best-known for being (successful) lead counsel in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees, has also done some important work on the use of design as a [...]

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