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“We believe that the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory.”

It seens a great exhibition, I’d love be in New York and see it!

Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use.

Design and the elastic mind exhibition, @ Moma

Origami TV Remote Control, Hayeon Yoo

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…the function’s not there

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One basic assumption of good experience design is that people fundamentally don’t like change. They can’t deal with it, it’s too risky, and changes will all too often lead to failures.

Indeed, when confronted with the prospect of change, both designers and users shy away, falling back to the tools and techniques they’re accustomed to and passing up on opportunities for improvement, progress, and innovation. But the human mind’s capacity to adapt to change, sometimes rapidly and seamlessly, can be astonishing.

@ Graphpaper

Dica de artigo enviado pelo pessoal da Try. Adorei a historinha :)

When a team at Sony was launching the boom box years ago, they held a focus group to decide the color. They had narrowed it down to black or yellow, and the focus group participants were unanimous in their recommendation: Yellow was dynamic, unique, and perfect for the marketplace. Sony thanked the participants and, in addition to paying them, mentioned that they could each pick up a free Sony boom box on the way out. There were two piles: black and yellow. Every single person took a black one.

Leia o post completo aqui / Read the entire post here: http://molecularvoices.molecular.com/2007/dont-just-listen-to-what-users-say/