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That's part of the
design
principle that you, rather than just inventing ever bigger rockets, you team them up.
We are today talking about moral persuasion: What is moral and immoral in trying to change people's behaviors by using technology and using
design?
Now, I don't say that is necessarily a bad thing; I just think that this example points us to a general realization, and that is: no matter what technology or
design
you look at, even something we consider as well-intended and as good in its effects as Stutzman's Freedom, comes with certain values embedded in it.
And if you look into the designed environment around us with that kind of lens, asking, "What is the vision of the good life that our products, our design, present to us?", then you often get the shivers, because of how little we expect of each other, of how little we actually seem to expect of our life, and what the good life looks like.
And speaking of design, you'll notice that I already broadened the discussion, because it's not just persuasive technology that we're talking about here, it's any piece of
design
that we put out here in the world.
And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade: whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the world, has a persuasive component.
The good life is a life where
design
is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.
And how does that apply, not just to persuasive technology, but to everything you
design?
Why, when the question of what the good life is informs everything that we design, should we stop at
design
and not ask ourselves: How does it apply to our own life?
It's an observation with obvious medical applications in humans as well, but it's also relevant in a broad sense, I think, to the
design
of prosthetics, soft robots, basically anything where changes of shape and stiffness are important.
Today I'm going to unpack for you three examples of iconic design, and it makes perfect sense that I should be the one to do it because I have a Bachelor's degree in Literature.
It is thought to have been a replacement for the older space ports located, of course, at Stonehenge and considered to be quite an improvement due to the uncluttered design, the lack of druids hanging around all the time and obviously, the much better access to parking.
When it was uncovered, it ushered in a new era of streamlined, archaically futuristic
design
called Googie, which came to be synonymous with the Jet Age, a misnomer.
This is a
design
by Philippe Starck, who I believe is in the audience at this very moment.
And you can tell it is a Starck
design
by its precision, its playfulness, its innovation and its promise of imminent violence.
It is also not a monument to design, it is a monument to
design'
s utility.
This is a
design
that once you saw it, you forgot about it.
I just explained
design.
Dad talked a lot about bad
design
when we were growing up, you know, "Bad
design
is just people not thinking, John," he would say whenever a kid would be injured by a rotary lawn mower or, say, a typewriter ribbon would get tangled or an eggbeater would get jammed in the kitchen.
Good design," my dad said, "is about supplying intent."
Dad helped
design
the control panels for the IBM 360 computer.
I knew
design
was important in my house because, for heaven's sake, it put food on our table, right?
And
design
was in everything my dad did.
You gotta
design
it.
"Doing that, acting by design, is what we all should be doing.
My life, at the mercy of good
design
and bad
design.
Now, in
design
terms, a wheelchair is a very difficult object.
I choose to enhance this rolling experience with a simple
design
element.
We're supposed to do things by
design.
Doing things by
design.
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