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No — Learning Experiences", "url": "https://jnd.org/failures-no-learning-experiences/", "published_at": "2018-11-11T23:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-76f6-71c9-b976-feb7ad0e0d1e", "title": "I learn more by being wrong than by being right", "url": "https://jnd.org/i-learn-more-by-being-wrong-than-by-being-right/", "published_at": "2018-11-11T23:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-76f6-71c9-b976-feb7ad802b53", "title": "Design for real people", "url": "https://jnd.org/design-for-real-people/", "published_at": "2018-11-11T23:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-76f6-71c9-b976-feb7ae77a14d", "title": "Democratizing Design: A Lecture.", "url": "https://jnd.org/democratizing-design-a-lecture/", "published_at": "2018-11-04T00:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-76f6-71c9-b976-feb7aedbffa6", "title": "Don’t be logical", "url": "https://jnd.org/dont-be-logical/", "published_at": "2018-10-25T14:32:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-9d23-70b3-aec6-e78248f36bb6", "title": "Then and Now: The Bauhaus and 21st century design", "url": "https://jnd.org/then-and-now-the-bauhaus-and-21st-century-design/", "published_at": "2017-12-24T11:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-9d23-70b3-aec6-e782492ee4ef", "title": "You can’t predict the future by inventing it", "url": "https://jnd.org/you-cant-predict-the-future-by-inventing-it/", "published_at": "2017-09-03T12:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-9d23-70b3-aec6-e782495616fd", "title": "Seeing the unforeseen follies of autonomous vehicles", "url": "https://jnd.org/seeing-the-unforeseen-follies-of-autonomous-vehicles/", "published_at": "2017-08-18T09:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-9d23-70b3-aec6-e7824a43d6bd", "title": "Technology Forces Us To Do Things We’re Bad At. 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DesignX: Design and complex sociotechnical systems", "url": "https://jnd.org/norman-stappers-2016-designx-design-and-complex-sociotechnical-systems/", "published_at": "2016-03-20T09:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-9d23-70b3-aec6-e7824cff6902", "title": "Vox Media on Norman Doors. ‘Bad doors are everywhere’", "url": "https://jnd.org/vox-media-on-norman-doors-bad-doors-are-everywhere/", "published_at": "2016-02-27T11:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6c9c36381", "title": "In memory of Naomi Miyake", "url": "https://jnd.org/in-memory-of-naomi-miyake/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T09:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6ca000511", "title": "How Apple is Giving Design a Bad Name", "url": "https://jnd.org/how-apple-is-giving-design-a-bad-name/", "published_at": "2015-11-10T08:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6ca642975", "title": "The “science” in the science of design", "url": "https://jnd.org/the-science-in-the-science-of-design/", "published_at": "2015-10-18T18:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cac8c420", "title": "Ready or not, the fully autonomous car is coming", "url": "https://jnd.org/ready-or-not-the-fully-autonomous-car-is-coming/", "published_at": "2015-10-18T15:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cb195732", "title": "Encounters with HCI pioneers", "url": "https://jnd.org/encounters-with-hci-pioneers/", "published_at": "2015-10-18T15:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cbb507ca", "title": "Affordances: Commentary on the Special Issue of AI EDAM", "url": "https://jnd.org/affordances-commentary-on-the-special-issue-of-ai-edam/", "published_at": "2015-10-18T15:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cc134fee", "title": "Apple’s products are getting harder to use because they ignore the principles of design.", "url": "https://jnd.org/apples-products-are-getting-harder-to-use-because-they-ignore-the-principles-of-design/", "published_at": "2015-08-10T09:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cc505c31", "title": "A Product Is More than a Product — Consider the Chair", "url": "https://jnd.org/a-product-is-more-than-a-product-consider-the-chair/", "published_at": "2015-07-25T16:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cc750cbc", "title": "Automatic Cars Or Distracted Drivers: We Need Automation Sooner, Not Later", "url": "https://jnd.org/automatic-cars-or-distracted-drivers-we-need-automation-sooner-not-later/", "published_at": "2015-06-03T19:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-bfa3-7089-bb97-f4b6cd6b4942", "title": "UC San Diego Postdoc in Human-Centered Healthcare", "url": "https://jnd.org/uc-san-diego-postdoc-in-human-centered-healthcare/", "published_at": "2015-05-14T18:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c2ce6866d", "title": "Positive computing: technology for wellbeing and human potential (Calvo & Peters)", "url": "https://jnd.org/positive-computing-technology-for-wellbeing-and-human-potential-calvo-peters/", "published_at": "2015-01-04T10:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c2d331d1f", "title": "Why Procrastination Is Good", "url": "https://jnd.org/why-procrastination-is-good/", "published_at": "2014-12-25T12:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c2d71b085", "title": "The Human Side of Automation", "url": "https://jnd.org/the-human-side-of-automation/", "published_at": "2014-12-25T10:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c2e5f8c4f", "title": "Why DesignX?", "url": "https://jnd.org/why-designx/", "published_at": "2014-12-13T13:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c2f3f40a2", "title": "DesignX: A Future Path for Design", "url": "https://jnd.org/designx-a-future-path-for-design/", "published_at": "2014-12-02T18:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c2f74c1de", "title": "A Great Product Ruined", "url": "https://jnd.org/a-great-product-ruined/", "published_at": "2014-09-20T16:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c302c941c", "title": "Hill climbing in radical Innovation", "url": "https://jnd.org/hill-climbing-in-radical-innovation/", "published_at": "2014-07-27T13:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c30355001", "title": "Verganti & Norman: Having a vision is not enough–it must be implemented", "url": "https://jnd.org/verganti-norman-having-a-vision-is-not-enough-it-must-be-implemented/", "published_at": "2014-07-13T15:07:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c311c8e57", "title": "Error Messages Are Evil", "url": "https://jnd.org/error-messages-are-evil/", "published_at": "2014-05-10T17:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d921-ed7e-7156-9c73-ba2c3121fdd6", "title": "Design at UCSD: Think Observe Make", "url": "https://jnd.org/design-at-ucsd-think-observe-make/", "published_at": "2014-05-08T16:05:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2025

How I taught DBW original ↗

4 Jun 2025

2023

Next generation air-conditioners original ↗

29 Jul 2023

United Nations original ↗

15 Jun 2023

WEIRD People: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic original ↗

5 Jun 2023

Praise for Design for a Better World original ↗

29 May 2023

How to make a positive impact on the world original ↗

27 May 2023

Individual Authors original ↗

19 May 2023

Electric Power: Wind, Water, Sun. (and Nuclear)original ↗

18 May 2023

The DBW Toolkit (for Learners and Teachers, Both)original ↗

1 May 2023

Behavioral Economics: Policy impact and future directions original ↗

26 Apr 2023

Podcasts and articles original ↗

19 Apr 2023

Design for a Better World: Excerpts and videos from the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF)original ↗

17 Apr 2023

Where did the term User Experience (UX) come from?original ↗

16 Apr 2023

Journals original ↗

13 Apr 2023

Climate Change: Organizations whose focus is climate change original ↗

13 Apr 2023

GPT-4: We Are in a Major Technological Change original ↗

12 Apr 2023

A video and text summary of Design for a Better World: A talk for McKinsey & Company original ↗

12 Apr 2023

Disposable clay coffee cups: Are they truly waste free?original ↗

10 Apr 2023

UNESCO original ↗

10 Apr 2023

Books at the United Nations original ↗

10 Apr 2023

Creating a New Moral Economy original ↗

2 Apr 2023

Human-Made Stuff and the Legal System original ↗

1 Apr 2023

Measuring Quality of Life original ↗

1 Apr 2023

Systems Theory original ↗

1 Apr 2023

Housing original ↗

31 Mar 2023

Foundations and Organizations original ↗

29 Mar 2023

Sustainable Design Videos by me for the Interaction Design Foundation original ↗

29 Mar 2023

Humanity-Centered Design Videos by me for the Interaction Design Foundation original ↗

29 Mar 2023

Four Essential Books (and a paper)original ↗

29 Mar 2023

Human-Centered versus Humanity-Centered Design original ↗

28 Mar 2023

Examples and Opportunities in Humanity-Centered Design original ↗

20 Mar 2023

Highly Relevant Books Published After DBW original ↗

20 Mar 2023

The Uniqueness of Japanese Time original ↗

12 Mar 2023

I No Longer Give Talks — I Hold Discussions original ↗

5 Mar 2023

DBW: Chapter 35. The Future of Technology original ↗

5 Mar 2023

DBW: Chapter 1. Almost Everything Artificial Has Been Designed original ↗

4 Mar 2023

DBW: Chapter 6. Overview of the DBW book: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered original ↗

4 Mar 2023

2022

Frontier Design Prize & Speech original ↗

24 Sept 2022

Power of Incrementalism original ↗

7 Sept 2022

Public Garden/Compost original ↗

7 Sept 2022

Irrigation Project original ↗

24 Aug 2022

Taking a Stand for Ukraine original ↗

25 Apr 2022

Humanity-Centered versus Human-Centered Design original ↗

26 Feb 2022

2020

To create a better society: The 2020 MP Ranjan memorial lecture original ↗

20 Nov 2020

The Future of Design Education original ↗

13 Jul 2020

21st Century Design (In 6 minutes)original ↗

13 May 2020

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms”original ↗

19 Mar 2020

Recycling: A poor solution to the wrong problem: An essay in two parts original ↗

10 Mar 2020

Changing Design Education for the 21st Century original ↗

10 Mar 2020

Why Designers don’t have much power in companies original ↗

11 Jan 2020

2019

People-Centered (Not Tech-Driven) Design*original ↗

26 Jul 2019

The Four Fundamental Principles ofHuman-Centered Design and Application original ↗

23 Jul 2019

Why Criticism Is Good for Creativity original ↗

22 Jul 2019

Delightful Products for Healthy Aging original ↗

26 May 2019

Why I Don’t Believe in Empathic Design original ↗

26 May 2019

21st Century Design for Societal Problems. Combining Community and Domain Experts original ↗

20 Apr 2019

Inviting Workshop Proposals original ↗

19 Apr 2019

Overcrowded, by Roberto Verganti: In favor of criticism original ↗

14 Apr 2019

The driverless car revolution must proceed with caution original ↗

24 Mar 2019

What Is the Future of Design (in 50 seconds)?original ↗

26 Jan 2019

HOW PIZZA COULD SAVE THE WORLD original ↗

9 Jan 2019

COMMUNITY-BASED, HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN original ↗

1 Jan 2019

2018

January 2019: Books worth reading original ↗

22 Dec 2018

If you can think of a clever solution in a few hours, assume many others have already done so.original ↗

26 Nov 2018

Unusable Objects original ↗

12 Nov 2018

Failures? No — Learning Experiences original ↗

11 Nov 2018

I learn more by being wrong than by being right original ↗

11 Nov 2018

Design for real people original ↗

11 Nov 2018

Democratizing Design: A Lecture.original ↗

4 Nov 2018

Don’t be logical original ↗

25 Oct 2018

2017

Then and Now: The Bauhaus and 21st century design original ↗

24 Dec 2017

You can’t predict the future by inventing it original ↗

3 Sept 2017

Seeing the unforeseen follies of autonomous vehicles original ↗

18 Aug 2017

Technology Forces Us To Do Things We’re Bad At. Time To Change How Design Is Done original ↗

28 Jan 2017

Design, business models, and human-technology teamwork original ↗

17 Jan 2017

2016

The Challenges of Partially Automated Driving original ↗

1 May 2016

Interview: Is Tesla Racing Recklessly Towards Driverless Cars?original ↗

23 Apr 2016

The Future of Design: When you come to a fork in the road, take it original ↗

23 Apr 2016

Norman & Stappers (2016). DesignX: Design and complex sociotechnical systems original ↗

20 Mar 2016

Vox Media on Norman Doors. ‘Bad doors are everywhere’original ↗

27 Feb 2016

2015

In memory of Naomi Miyake original ↗

10 Nov 2015

How Apple is Giving Design a Bad Name original ↗

10 Nov 2015

The “science” in the science of design original ↗

18 Oct 2015

Ready or not, the fully autonomous car is coming original ↗

18 Oct 2015

Encounters with HCI pioneers original ↗

18 Oct 2015

Affordances: Commentary on the Special Issue of AI EDAM original ↗

18 Oct 2015

Apple’s products are getting harder to use because they ignore the principles of design.original ↗

10 Aug 2015

A Product Is More than a Product — Consider the Chair original ↗

25 Jul 2015

Automatic Cars Or Distracted Drivers: We Need Automation Sooner, Not Later original ↗

3 Jun 2015

UC San Diego Postdoc in Human-Centered Healthcare original ↗

14 May 2015

Positive computing: technology for wellbeing and human potential (Calvo & Peters)original ↗

4 Jan 2015

2014

Why Procrastination Is Good original ↗

25 Dec 2014

The Human Side of Automation original ↗

25 Dec 2014

Why DesignX?original ↗

13 Dec 2014

DesignX: A Future Path for Design original ↗

2 Dec 2014

A Great Product Ruined original ↗

20 Sept 2014

Hill climbing in radical Innovationoriginal ↗

27 Jul 2014

Verganti & Norman: Having a vision is not enough–it must be implemented original ↗

13 Jul 2014

Error Messages Are Evil original ↗

10 May 2014

Design at UCSD: Think Observe Make original ↗

8 May 2014