Posts tagged ‘industrial design’

May 22, 2013

Friday is Positive Design Day

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April 17, 2013

Ich freue mich auf die Marktforscher

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Am nächsten Dienstag, den 23. April 2013, halte ich einen eingeladenen Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung des “Berufsverbandes der Deutschen Markt- und Sozialforscher” in Berlin. Ich bin gespannt!

Erlebnisse gestalten am Beispiel des Automobils: Ein neue Sicht auf das Design

Erlebnis und Freude sind allgegenwärtig – man hat “Freude am Fahren” oder “Erlebt, was verbindet”. Aber was macht einen freudvollen Moment eigentlich aus und kann man ihn überhaupt gezielt gestalten? Oder sind Erlebnisse nur das, was die Werbung uns verspricht? In den letzten 10 Jahren hat sich eine Haltung und Praxis entwickelt, die Erlebnisse ganz selbstverständlich als gestaltbaren Teil eines jeden Produktes versteht. Erlebnisse sind freudvolle, bedeutungsvolle Geschichten, die sich durch die Interaktion mit einem Ding entfalten. Am Beispiel Automobil werden Chancen, aber auch Herausforderungen eines solchen Ansatzes diskutiert.

April 16, 2013

maneCANpiss | by Daniel Töös

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Healthy and blooming plants are beautiful to look at. However, in order to keep these living friends alive, it is necessary to take care of them. Although it is said that talking to them is beneficial, watering the plants from time to time should be a good starting point.

The watering can maneCANpiss is about watering plants frequently. Like any other watering can, maneCANpiss is filled with water from the top and watering the flowers is done by a nozzle-spout. However, if maneCANpiss is filled with water, it starts to continuously lower its nozzle-spout until the water spills – at worst on important things lying at the window sill. The longer you forget to water your flowers, the more water will spill. However, to avoid spilling water you can do two things. The former is to lift up the nozzle-spout – safe with the knowledge that you cheated yourself – the latter is to water your flowers.

March 22, 2013

Bachelor Präsentationen 12/13

Zwei Tage mit spannenden Projektpräsentationen sind vorbei. Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Absolventen und hier ein paar Bilder!

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February 20, 2013

Experience before Things @ alt.chi 13

It’s trailertime again!

While things (i.e., technologies) play a crucial role in creating and shaping meaningful, positive experiences, their true value lies only in the resulting experiences. It is about what we can do and experience with a thing, about the stories unfolding through using a technology, not about its styling, material, or impressive list of features. This paper explores the notion of “experiences” further: from the link between experiences, well-being, and people’s developing post-materialistic stance to the challenges of the experience market and the experience-driven design of technology.

December 21, 2012

Mannheim – World Usability Day

 

November 20, 2012

Freude durch Technik? Vom Vermeiden von Problemen zum freudvollen Erlebnis

Keynote auf der tekom-Frühjahrstagung 2012.

Ich weiß, es ist nur wenig originell, aber ich habe das Radfahren für
mich entdeckt. An einem Samstagvormittag führt mich eine typische
Tour hinaus aus Darmstadt, über Nieder-Ramstadt, Frankenhausen
nach Ober-Beerbach, Eberstadt und zurück – 30 km, zwei Stunden, vielleicht
500 Höhenmeter durch Wälder, Wiesen und sanfte Hügel.

 

November 19, 2012

Towards happiness: Possibility-driven design

Desmet, P. M. A., & Hassenzahl, M. (2012). Towards happiness: Possibility-driven design. In M. Zacarias & J. V. de Oliveira (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction: The Agency Perspective (pp. 3–27). Springer.

This chapter suggests possibility-driven design as an alternative to the common problem-driven approach. A first part explores the concept of “possibilities” and how it relates to happiness and well-being. We further develop the notion of designing for the pleasurable life and the good life through a number of exemplary design cases. Each takes a possibility-driven approach, thereby highlighting potential challenges and merits. By that, we hope to lay ground for an approach to de sign, which draws upon happiness to motivate the design of future technologies. This will help establishing a culture of humane innovation, which understands technology as a possibility to improve life directly.

November 2, 2012

Pleasurable Troublemakers @ C.A.R.

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From today on until Sunday, the 4. October,  Matthias Laschke shows our Transformational Objects – pleasurable troublemakers – on the contemporary art ruhr in the SANAA building on Zollverein.

October 10, 2012

Copenhagen, here we come!

The NordiCHI conference 2012 is coming closer. Eva Lenz and Sarah Diefenbach are looking forward to visit the conference (and beautiful Copenhagen!). They participate in the Design Cases Session contributing Mo. Shared music, shared moment. both in a talk (Tuesday,  11.00) and in exhibition (Monday to Wednesday, Design Lab). Come to meet the two of us and Mo!

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