Lecture Norms & Rules: Week 9
Lecture by Ianus Keller and Bregje van Eekelen closing off Understanding Design and reflecting on the theme of week 9 of Understanding Design: Norms & Rules
Lecture by Ianus Keller and Bregje van Eekelen closing off Understanding Design and reflecting on the theme of week 9 of Understanding Design: Norms & Rules
Michael Pollan explains why coffee is the most widely used psychoactive drug and the effect it has had on the world.
Lecture by Bregje van Eekelen and Ianus Keller about the theme of week 3 of Understanding Design: Consumption
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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Second week, theme Production. From 12 to 16 September 2022
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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.
Eli Pariser warns about the dangerous consequence that comes with the increasing personalization of our digital services.
Nick and Christian from Google Design discuss potential trajectories for the messy futures of emerging technologies and argue for design being appropriately and systematically messy in response. Please watch the video from the first marker to the second for this week. In this part you will see some ideas about the roles of models and abstractions and get an idea of their possible uses.