Instead of directing confronting her of him with -the standard way of to correct other people’s behaviour- you might design an irresistable nudge.
Creative Nudging to Fix Bad Habits of Your Partner
Thinking in Images
Most people think in words. When asked to imagine a traffic accident they come up with not very detailed descriptions, in comparison with people who are thinking in pictures. It became even worse if the words are becoming more and more abstract. Words as society, market, law, inflation etc. stay for them just words; they …
Day 7 – Christmas Thinkibility Challenge
Swans can walk on earth, swim in the sea and soar in the sky. These magnificent birds are often seen as a symbol of freedom, life, grace or purity. It is magical to watch their movements as the glide on the water with their graceful long necks. And just like yang and yin there are …
Poor Social Design – Thinkibility Nibble
According to a Dutch report, the number of people with intellectual disabilities getting paid care, increased between 1998 and 2011 fivefold (the figures for other Western countries will not be much different) The large increase is not because more people have a disability, but because the diagnosis is now made more often by changing demands in …
T29 – Day 19
Day 19 – Design Redesign a Sport. Take a common sport and redesign it so that it can be played by more people. Below are some examples: A dart club called “The Optimist” used a string to help guide blind players to the bullseye. Tennis clubs for visually impaired use smaller rackets, a smaller court, …
T29 – Day 18
Day 18 – Design Design something that changes behaviour. Pick a habit or a behaviour and design something that controls that behaviour. For example, broad avenues where built Paris with the aim to better control riots and revolutionary uproars. This design should embrace a positive approach to controlling and changing the behaviour. Also select another …
T29 – Day 17
Day 17-20 – Design Design thinking can be defined as the “transformation of existing conditions into preferred ones” (Herbert Simon, Sciences of the Artificial”). So in a way design thinking deals with improving something to make sure that our future is improved. This approach to thinking helps use redefine what an object is. Blog Posts …
Out of the Tank
I found some interesting designs that challenge our thinking. It is easy to hold a distinct view on how certain things should look, what the purpose it, who the item should be designed for. . . It is useful to give the creative muscles a workout by exploring underlying concepts in designs. What common rule …
What Kind of Thinking Situation Is This?
When we deliberately think about something, it is very important to have a precisely defined focus. What should be the outcome of the thinking? If we know what outcome we want, then it is not that difficult anymore to know what thinking steps to do.To get a good focus, it is helpful to ask for ourselves …
Key Performance (mis) Indicators
Key Performance Indicators are meant to keep an organisation on track. By measuring the performance over time, you are able to look at deviations and to take measures. As Wikipedia defines it: A key performance indicator (KPI) is a type of performance measurement. An organization may use KPIs to evaluate its success, or to evaluate the …
Symbiotic Biomimicry
Sustainability is an approach where we try to create and maintain conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony. But is the approach enough to make sure that we have and will continue to have water, materials and resources that can protect out health and the environment? Innovations using symbiotic biomimicry as …
Controlled Behavior by Design
Design has been used throughout history to control our behavior. Hausmann designed the broad avenues in Paris with the aim to better control riots and revolutionary uproars. There are designs that prevent you from lying on a bench, so called anti homeless benches. Citizens have built low viaducts to prevent buses going into the town to …
Innovation of Social Concepts
We are waiting for better ideas to improve society. But should we design them deliberately rather than wait? One thing is certain - governments need much better ideas. A little less-of-the same ideas and strategies is no longer an option. The stage where changes in choices and cuts can solve our problems, is already far …
Design Thinking – Organic Forms
What is this? It is the perfect car! Strange! No way! Impossible! Well, many of us do not see a car at all. We see striking colours and bulging forms. Ross Lovegrove is famous for his organic inspired designs. Here he has stripped the car down to its "Genesis Form." A futuristic concept …
Streamlining Your Thinking
Perfection may be achieved when there is nothing left to take away. Michelangelo saw David through the block of marble and he simple chopped away the stone that was not David. The Japanese word shibumi is used to describe refined simplicity, beauty, elegance, and quiet perfection. Shibumi looks simple but it takes time and effort …
Misunderstandings about Innovation
In times of globalisation, it has become vital to maximise the rate of innovation. Defining the concept innovation is difficult. Often we spend little time thinking about definitions, yet how we define a word influences our actions. There are many misunderstandings about innovations and often innovation has become a passive process. Innovation should be part …
Thinking about Value
Thinking about Value The importance of value is the theme in the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The narrator observes that grown-ups like numbers. Grown-ups think that they know a person after then have asked questions related to a new friend’s age and how much money his parent’s make. The little prince …
Design Thinking
Every designer needs to look somewhere for inspiration and ideas. Design Thinking is Andrew Taylor's speciality. He has kindly written a story about how a designer got inspiration for the next big thing. Andrew has worked with design engineering and industrial design. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts with a keen interest in …
Innovation and Design
A vision on innovation Innovation is a very misunderstood technique. We would like to introduce some clarity: Innovation does not just fall into your lap Ideas have to be consciously designed Application of a technology follows the generation of an idea, not visa versa Innovation does not just fall into your lap You will …
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