Design with Intent
Blog URL http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags design, behaviour, interaction, architecture, engineering, technology, designers, control, persuasion
How do people use products, systems and environments?
How can designers influence interaction?
How can we design for sustainable behaviour?
Latest Blog Posts
- Persuasion for peace on Nov 7, 2009 in Design philosophy Design with Intent Future Peace Techniques of persuasion Worldwide
Influencing individual people’s behaviour often seems to be about mundane or trivial things, such as choosing one type of magazine subscription over another, or using less shower gel in a hotel bathroom. But if we’re honest, it’s o...
- Design for Conversion on Nov 7, 2009 in Asides
Design for Conversion: The Mobile Edition – taking place on 11th of December in Amsterdam – looks like a great conference. Organised by Arjan Haring, it’s described as “a mashup of persuasive design, principles of persuasion a...
- Thoughts on the ‘fun theory’ on Nov 3, 2009 in Affective Design Design with Intent Emotion Entertainment Environmental Interaction design Norms Product design Sustainability Techniques of persuasion Urban User Psychology User experience advertising
The ‘Piano Staircase’ from Volkswagen’s thefuntheory.com The Fun Theory (Rolighetsteorin), a competition / campaign / initiative from Volkswagen Sweden – created by DDB Stockholm – has been getting a lot of attention in...
- What’s been going on recently on Oct 13, 2009 in Brunel Design Design with Intent DwI Method PhD Site Announcements
RSA Design Directions 2009/10 The RSA’s 2009/10 Design Directions competition has been launched, which means up and down the country there are design students and new graduates working on one of the pretty wide selection of briefs. Given the RS...
- Some interesting projects (Part 2) on Oct 10, 2009 in Affective Brunel Children Design Design with Intent Designers Education Emotion Environmental Gadgets Good design Interaction design London Product design Sustainability Techniques of persuasion
Following on from Part 1, here are a couple more very interesting student projects linking design and behaviour. This time, both involve providing feedback on the impact or costs of everyday behaviours in order to get people to think. Tim Holley̵...
- Greengaged 2009 on Sep 25, 2009 in Asides
Been a little busy round here, continuing for the next week or so, but in the meantime I thought I’d share a post I was invited to write for Greengaged, the fantastic programme of events at the Design Council on sustainability, which took place...
- Design for Persuasion, 1st October, Brussels on Sep 16, 2009 in Asides
On 1st October I’ll be talking about How to influence user behaviour: Design with Intent at the Design for Persuasion event in Brussels, alongside some great speakers including BJ Fogg, Richard Sedley and Christel De Maeyer. There are still som...




