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?
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Vacuum cleaner & World Plugs
Ninth week, theme Norms & Rules. From 31 October to 4 November 2022
Lecture User X: Week 8
Lecture by Ianus Keller and Bregje van Eekelen about the theme of week 8 of Understanding Design: User X
The Century of the Self – Pt 2
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.
Lecture User X: Week 8 2023
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Lecture Production: Week 2
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Design is Messy II
For this week, from the second marker after 26 minutes is mandatory material for systems thinking
How Caffeine Addiction Changed History
Michael Pollan explains why coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug and the effect it has had on the world.
Powers of Ten
This short documentary film by Ray and Charles Eames investigates the relative size of things and the significance of adding a zero to any number. It illustrates the universe as an arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and cosmic mystery.
Lecture Design for the real world: Week 7 2021
Lecture by Laurens Kolks and Bregje van Eekelen about the theme of week 7 of Understanding Design: Design for the real world