Tag Archives: Behavior

My Thoughts on “Thoughts on Thoughts on Interaction Design”

By Chad | Published: January 24, 2010
J. Ambrose Little just posted recently about reading Jon Kolko’s Thoughts on Interaction Design.  While I am new to this whole design thing, I have previously posted about my uneasiness with the claim that we design behavior. 
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Incentives and the Path of Least Resistance

By Chad | Published: June 20, 2009
This is sort of a continuation of the previous post about designing to change behavior. I am not really arguing one side or the other here, rather I am searching for some insights about design. To that end I have chosen a few books to dive into this summer, among them the book Freakonomics. One [...]
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Is it a designer's job to change behavior?

By Chad | Published: June 12, 2009
I have read a lot of articles that specifically say a designer’s job is to change behavior. Perhaps I am but a naive designer, but I don’t know if I buy into that statement. I have been thinking a lot about it, and I had a fellow student ask me why I thought this. Here [...]
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