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What I didn’t get round to writing about in 2009

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

A lot of people send me ideas and suggestions for the blog, for which I’m very grateful indeed, but which I don’t always get round to investigating or posting or dealing with in a timely manner. Or sometimes I note them, use them as examples elsewhere, or in conversation with people, but never actually get [...]

What’s happening with the toolkit (Part 2): Interaction design: how you can be part of it

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 22, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Following on from part 1, here are a few of the ‘new’ design patterns that are going to be in v.0.95 of the Design with Intent toolkit, but for which I don’t yet have very good ‘design’ examples.
Any suggestions, or photos / screenshots would be very much appreciated, whether they’re your own projects, things [...]

What’s happening with the toolkit (Part 1)

By Dan Lockton ⋅ December 18, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

It’s 8 months since the Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9 went online and I’ve had incredibly useful feedback from a whole range of people who’ve tried it out on different kinds of briefs and problems. As mentioned a couple of months ago, the toolkit poster PDF (which has 12 ‘headline’ design patterns, compared with the [...]

What’s been going on recently

By Dan Lockton ⋅ October 13, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

RSA Design Directions 2009/10
The RSA’s 2009/10 Design Directions competition has been launched, which means up and down the country there are design students and new graduates working on one of the pretty wide selection of briefs. Given the RSA’s aim of ‘removing barriers to social progress’ – with a significant commitment to using design to [...]

September workshop sessions: invitation

By Dan Lockton ⋅ August 19, 2009 ⋅ One comment

As part of my PhD I’m testing different variants of the Design with Intent toolkit with designers (and design students) to find out how well different configurations work when a designer’s faced with a brief about influencing user behaviour: how useful are the ideas in inspiring solutions, and how well does using it compare to [...]

A survey for designers: more books to win

By Dan Lockton ⋅ July 12, 2009 ⋅ One comment

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 [...]

Two events next week

By Dan Lockton ⋅ May 20, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Next Wednesday evening, 27th May, I’ll be giving a presentation about Design with Intent at SkillSwap Brighton’s ‘Skillswap Goes Behavioural’ alongside Ben Maxwell from Onzo (pioneers of some of the most interesting home energy behaviour change design work going on at present). I hope I’ll be able to give a thought-provoking talk with plenty of [...]

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 [...]

Next week: a simplified Design with Intent toolkit, v.0.9

By Dan Lockton ⋅ April 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The ‘Design with Intent method‘, on which I’m working as the first part of my PhD, has been fairly sparsely reported on this blog. This is intended to be an innovation method for helping designers faced with “behaviour change” problems come up with useful solutions, or in situations where helping users to use a product [...]

Persuasive 2009

By Dan Lockton ⋅ March 11, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

UPDATED (7 April): Here’s an ‘author version preprint’ of the paper, Influencing Interaction: Development of the Design with Intent Method [PDF, 1.6MB]. At some point soon this version of the paper will downloadable from Brunel’s research archive, while the ‘proper’ version will be available in the ACM Digital Library. ACM requires me to state the [...]

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