The Norman door
Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn’t need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine. So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?
Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn’t need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine. So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?
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In this episode of Everything is a Remix, Kirby Ferguson explores the elements of creativity and illustrates that copying is often an inevitable part of creation. Feel free to watch the other three parts as enriching material!
Fifth week, theme Creativity. From 3 to 7 October 2022.
The video referred to in the lecture on the rise of consumer research in the early 1950s. Using methods to mine the unconscious, leading to the focus group. Also contains that famous story about just adding an egg to instant-cake to remove the barrier of guilt.
A short introduction to Bauhaus, one of the most definitive design movements of the modern age.
This is part of The Open University series Design in a Nutshell. The questions at the end of each movie could inspire you for your seminar questions.
Lecture by Laurens Kolks and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 7 of Understanding Design: Design for the real world
Third week, theme Consumption. From 19 to 23 September 2022
Seventh week, theme Design for the Real World. From 17 to 21 October 2022
Learn about the origin of consumerism, its drivers and its consequences.