What is Design? A lecture by Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge, the director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum breaks it open in this lecture at the Smithsonian Design Institute
Design with Intent - a Toolkit for Influencing Behavior Through Design
This set of cards created by by Dan Lockton with David Harrison and Neville A. Stanton offer 101 patterns for influencing behavior through design.
The authors write:
“All design influences our behaviour, but as designers we don’t always consciously consider the power this gives us to help people, (and, sometimes, to manipulate them). There’s a huge opportunity for design for behaviour change to address social and environmental issues where people’s behaviour is important, but as yet little in the way of a guide for designers and other stakeholders, bringing together knowledge and examples from different disciplines, and drawing parallels which can allow concepts to be usefully transposed. The Design with Intent toolkit (the cards and wiki) aims to make a start, however small, on this task”
The Design with Intent Cards are organized in eight groups: architecture, interaction, ludic, perceptual, cognitive, machiavellian, and security.
You can learn more about the cards and download them here.
Design for Dementia Guide
Today, I attended Barcelona Design Week’s session Facing New Challenges Through Design. There, I learned about the work of Rama Gheerawo, Deputy Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre, at the Royal College of Art .
Rama has been presenting user-centered design projects, specially in relation to elderly. In that respect, I’d like to recommend to download the publication Design for Dementia: improving dining and bedroom environments in care homes [PDF].
[The guide] explores how better product and environment design can improve quality of life for care home residents with dementia. The design ideas developed are a practical response to the challenge of congnitive decline and can be retrofitted to existing care homes as well as applied to new developments.
DMY Berlin International Design Festival
DMY Opening from robertanderson on Vimeo.
Last week I participated at the DMY Berlin Festival. There Enviu and SEOS Design partnered to provide a workshop on User-Centered Sustainable Design.
In fact, we are co-developing a set of ideation cards for user-centered sustainable design. The tool is still in beta, but soon we will make it available online. We will keep you posted.
Open Design Will Change Everything
At Open-Designism we find this great collection of Open Design examples. There, we learn that design is totally open as it bears 4 freedoms;
- Freedom to use, including making it
- Freedom to study how the design works and to change it to make it do what you wish
- Freedom to redistribute copies of the design, so you can help your neighbours
- Freedom to distribute copies of your own modified version, so the whole community can benefit from your changes
