<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Design with Intent</title>
	<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk</link>
	<description>Using design to influence behaviour</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:07:44 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>What I didn&#8217;t get round to writing about in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people send me ideas and suggestions for the blog, for which I&#8217;m very grateful indeed, but which I don&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/12/24/what-i-didnt-get-round-to-writing-about-in-2009/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>What’s happening with the toolkit (Part 2): Interaction design: how you can be part of it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from part 1, here are a few of the &#8216;new&#8217; design patterns that are going to be in v.0.95 of the Design with Intent toolkit, but for which I don&#8217;t yet have very good &#8216;design&#8217; examples. 
Any suggestions, or photos / screenshots would be very much appreciated, whether they&#8217;re your own projects, things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/12/22/what%e2%80%99s-happening-with-the-toolkit-part-2-interaction-design-how-you-can-be-part-of-it/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s happening with the toolkit (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s 8 months since the Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9 went online and I&#8217;ve had incredibly useful feedback from a whole range of people who&#8217;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 &#8216;headline&#8217; design patterns, compared with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/12/18/whats-happening-with-the-toolkit-part-1/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>User-centred design for energy efficiency in buildings: TSB competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline&#8217;s fast approaching (mid-day 17th Dec) for the UK Technology Strategy Board&#8217;s &#8216;User-centred design for energy efficiency in buildings&#8217; competition [PDF] &#8211; there&#8217;s an introduction from Fionnuala Costello here. 
This is an exciting initiative which aims to bring together (in a 5-day &#8217;sandpit&#8217;) people from different disciplines and different sectors to address the problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/12/10/user-centred-design-for-energy-efficiency-in-buildings-tsb-competition/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Through London with the DwI goggles on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve admitted before, having the idea of &#8216;design that&#8217;s intended to influence behaviour&#8217; on my mind a lot of the time does sometimes lead to seeing everything with that filter in place:
[It's] a kind of conspiracy bias, ascribing to design intent that which is perhaps more likely to be due to situational factors (a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/12/10/through-london-with-the-dwi-goggles-on/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Three quotes from clever people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/12/07/three-quotes-from-clever-people/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Persuasion for peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Influencing individual people&#8217;s behaviour often seems to be about mundane or trivial things, such as choosing one type of magazine subscription over another, or using less shower gel in a hotel bathroom. 
But if we&#8217;re honest, it&#8217;s only in aggregate that behaviour change is going to have any real effect on the world outside the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/11/08/persuasion-for-peace/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Design for Conversion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Design for Conversion: The Mobile Edition &#8211; taking place on 11th of December in Amsterdam &#8211; looks like a great conference. Organised by Arjan Haring, it&#8217;s described as &#8220;a mashup of persuasive design, principles of persuasion and evidence based marketing&#8221; and brings together user experience design, analytics and online marketing, with a &#8216;persuasion&#8217; focus. 
For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/11/07/design-for-conversion/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Thoughts on the &#8216;fun theory&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The &#8216;Piano Staircase&#8217; from Volkswagen&#8217;s thefuntheory.com
The Fun Theory (Rolighetsteorin), a competition / campaign / initiative from Volkswagen Sweden &#8211; created by DDB Stockholm &#8211; has been getting a lot of attention in the last couple of weeks from both design-related people and other commentators with an interest in influencing behaviour: it presents a series of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/11/03/thoughts-on-the-fun-theory/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>What&#8217;s been going on recently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
RSA Design Directions 2009/10
The RSA&#8217;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&#8217;s aim of &#8216;removing barriers to social progress&#8217; &#8211; with a significant commitment to using design to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/10/13/whats-been-going-on-recently/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Some interesting projects (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from Part 1, here are a couple more very interesting student projects linking design and behaviour. This time, both involve providing feedback on the impact or costs of everyday behaviours in order to get people to think.
Tim Holley&#8217;s Tio project, developed in response to a brief by Onzo, and described as &#8216;A Light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/10/10/some-interesting-projects-part-2/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Greengaged 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been a little busy round here, continuing for the next week or so, but in the meantime I thought I&#8217;d share a post I was invited to write for Greengaged, the fantastic programme of events at the Design Council on sustainability, which took place this week. Thanks to Kate Andrews for the opportunity.
Next week: Design [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/09/25/greengaged-2009/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Design for Persuasion, 1st October, Brussels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 1st October I&#8217;ll be talking about How to influence user behaviour: Design with Intent at the Design for Persuasion event in Brussels, alongside some great speakers including BJ Fogg, Richard Sedley and Christel De Maeyer. There are still some last-minute tickets available. Here&#8217;s a video from Christel and one from BJ about the event. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/09/16/design-for-persuasion-1st-october-brussels/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>September workshop sessions: invitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As part of my PhD I&#8217;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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/08/19/september-workshop-sessions-invitation/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Some interesting projects (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come across some interesting student projects at various shows and exhibitions this summer, some of which address the relationship between design and people&#8217;s behaviour in different situations, and some of which explicitly aim to influence what people do and think. Here&#8217;s a selection (Part 2 and Part 3 will follow).

Jasmine Cox&#8217;s Displacement Engine (Dundee) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/08/19/some-interesting-projects-part-1/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>A survey for designers: more books to win</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following last week&#8217;s card-sorting exercise (which went really well &#8211; thanks to everyone who took part), here&#8217;s something a bit more open-ended and ongoing.
I&#8217;m trying to find out how designers and design teams (in-house or consultancies) who&#8217;ve worked on influencing user behaviour think about what they&#8217;ve done &#8211; which techniques and patterns do people recognise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/07/12/a-survey-for-designers-more-books-to-win/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Cialdini on the Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-monitoring is one of the most common persuasive techniques used in interface design: basically, giving people feedback on what they&#8217;re doing and what they&#8217;ve done. There are lots of issues about which kinds of feedback work best, in what circumstances, pairing it with feedforward, i.e. &#8216;What would happen if I did this?&#8217; information, and so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/07/10/cialdini-on-the-beach/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Sort some cards and win a copy of The Hidden Dimension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
UPDATE: Thanks everyone &#8211; 10 participants in just a few hours! The study&#8217;s closed now &#8211; congratulations to Ville Hjelm whose book is now on its way&#8230;
If you&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/07/02/sort-some-cards-and-win-a-copy-of-the-hidden-dimension/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Modelling users: Pinballs, shortcuts and thoughtfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The different approaches to influencing people&#8217;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 &#8220;the user&#8221; or &#8220;users&#8221; in a number of different ways in relation to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/07/02/modelling-users-pinballs-shortcuts-and-thoughtfulness/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>&#8216;Smart meters&#8217;: some thoughts from a design point of view</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my (rather verbose) response to the three most design-related questions in DECC&#8217;s smart meter consultation that I mentioned earlier today. Please do get involved in the discussion that Jamie Young&#8217;s started on the Design &#038; Behaviour group and on his blog at the RSA. 
Q12 Do you agree with the Government&#8217;s position that a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2009/06/18/smart-meters-some-thoughts-from-a-design-point-of-view/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.828 seconds -->
