Design with Intent

http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/design-for-sustainable-behaviour/


http://research.danlockton.co.uk/toolkit/designwithintent_cards_1.0_draft_300dpi.pdf

My PhD involves developing a ‘design pattern’ toolkit, called Design with Intent, to help designers create products, services and environments which influence the way people use them. The toolkit brings together techniques for understanding and changing human behaviour from a number of psychological disciplines, illustrated with examples, to enable designers to explore and apply relevant strategies to problems.

Can industrial designers use the Design with Intent toolkit to apply insights from other disciplines (psychology, ergonomics, architecture, human-computer interaction, behavioural economics) to generate novel, realistic design concepts, addressing briefs on influencing user behaviour, primarily to reduce the environmental impact of technology use, but also in other social benefit contexts?

How useful is the toolkit to designers, compared with conventional brainstorming? (Assessed by the quantity and diversity of concepts generated, compared with control groups)
How usable are different variations of the toolkit, such as a structured ‘prescription’ approach using a form of decision tree with ‘target behaviours’, a more freeform approach, posters and card decks? (Assessed by observation of participants and a think-aloud method)
What can be improved to make a better ‘product’ which designers will feel comfortable using, and want to adopt as part of the design process? (Assessed by observation, think-aloud method, and surveys)