The Decision Kit by KnockKnock

link
www.knockknock.biz

Paper Synthesizers by Dan Mcpharlin

link
www.danmcpharlin.com
www.designboom.com

We Are What We Do

Small actions + Lots of people = Big change

link
www.wearewhatwedo.org

pinball table artwork

link
www.ipdb.org

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BBC - Horizon - How to make better decisions

Click image to watch or
www.bbc.co.uk

The Price Is Right

Doctor Who

Golden Shot

The Crystal Maze

Wheel of Fortune

Weakest Link

Krypton Factor

Family Fortune

Who Wants to be a Millionaire

FL-909 by aM laboratory

Click image to aM laboratory and play.

link
aM laboratory

The Conversation (1974)

The Conversation (1974) movie trailer



link
www.youtube.com

Flag by Jasper Johns

Flag (Moratorium), 1930

Look at the white dot on the middle of the painting for 30 secs, then look at the white screen under this.


















link
wikipedia - Jasper Johns

After image

Instructions:
1. Focus on the small white square in the middle of the picture for about 15 seconds (ignore the moving circle). Try not to blink. Then look at a white screen under the picture. You should see colors. What colors do you see?

2. Try the experiment again, except this time move your eyes to follow the little circle. After following the circle for 15 seconds, look at the white screen under the picture. Do you still see the colors?


















What's Happening:
In the retina of your eyes, there are 3 types of color receptors (cones) that are most sensitive to either red, blue or green. When you stare at a particular color for too long, these receptors get "tired" or "fatigued." When you then look at the white background, the receptors that are tired do not work as well. Therefore, the information from all of the different color receptors is not in balance and you see the color "afterimages." You can see that you vision quickly returns to normal.

In the second experiment when you follow the moving circle, your eyes are always moving. Therefore, you do not give a particular color the chance to tire your receptors.

link
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/after.html
wikipedia - after image

visual trick

1. Look at the moving pink dot, you will only see one colour, pink.
2. Look at "+" in the middel of the image, you will see the moving dot become green.
3. Stare at "+" long time, pink dots will disappear and you only will see a moving green dot.

link
blog.bluecircus.net

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TAKE YOUR PICK / DEAL OR NO DEAL

link
youtube

The Paradox of Choice at frog design mind

click image to read full article or link to www.frogdesign.com

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Virtually Mine / exploring how we value the objects in our life

CITIZEN:Citizen's Virtually Mine online exhibit started at a gallery event where attendees brought with them objects of personal significance. Along with specific descriptions from each owner, the items were photographed, tagged, and archived and the project was born. The Virtually Mine site gives a peek into the way many different people value the objects in their lives. [via core77]

link
Virtually Mine

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The Affective Sustainability of Objects by Kristina Borjesson

How objects retain their significance over time and in a changing human context. Is the affective an important but missing link in the ongoing efforts towards improved sustainability of objects? Although being it, is affective sustainability subjective and therefore difficult to consider by design?

"My vision is to help designers look for the obvious when designing. It might be immediately hidden, but when it is found, it shows the way to simplification." - Kristina Borjesson

It's one of the most exciting workshop I attended this term.

link
www.borjesson-mk.se
The Found Object

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Mind Chair by Peter Marigold and Beta Tank

Mind Chair - a collaborative interactive furniture design with Beta Tank
The electronic unit sits as a retrofitted parasite within an existing and very familiar design describing how a technology that is both simple yet astonishing in its effect, could be incorporated into something as ubiquitous as a piece of institutional furniture. The familiarity of the assemblage leads to a guessing game as to how the device might be used in a simple alternative teaching environment.
[via www.dezeen.com]

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quotes

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

link
www.quotedb.com
quotations.about.com

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electirc fortune telling machine

link
www.youtube.com


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Guess What I'm Craving This Morning...

link
www.joeydevilla.com

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Matthieu Ricard: Habits of happiness

link
www.ted.com

Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing

link
www.ted.com

Mr. Jones Watches by Crispin Jones

Right or Wrong provides a moral traffic lights - as the seconds turn there is an animated colour change on the dial from red to blue-green. In a moment of doubt (do I really have to leave now? Is there time for one more drink?) the wearer can look at the watch for guidance. In extreme cases one can pop out the winding crown which will stop the mechanism on an answer - giving no scope for cheating (well you can always play 'best-of-three' if you don't get the answer you want first time!)


The Mantra alternates a very positive statement (e.g. "you are amazing") with a very negative one (e.g. "nobody likes you").
The Mantra makes the arrogant person more humble and makes the humble more confident.


link
www.mrjoneswatches.com


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Magnetic Structure by Robert Hodgin

link
www.flight404.com


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WORK IN PROGRESS

ma industrial design
ma design for textile futures
ma creative practice for narrative environments

Work In Progress Exhibition

Tuesday 8th January, 2008
5.00-8.30pm, 9th +10th Floors, Red Lion Square,
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
University of the Arts London
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP


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Engaging User Creativity: The Playful Experience

“Satisfying the desire to play can be integral in determining the success or failure of a digital product or service.”

The Elements of Playful
-Branding
-Playful Engagement
-Social Interaction
-Sharing
-Customization

Measuring Playability
-lots of small rewards and positive feedback for taking action
-no negative consequences for experimentation
-the ability to take someone else’s work and build on it
-frivolous interaction

Read more www.uxmatters.com


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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...by Robert Stadler

Carole
Mirror oracle / Karriere Bar 2007

The mirror Carole proposes aphorismes and proverbs as answers to the spectators questions.
These random chosen sentences aren't personalized, but their enigmatic and universal character makes the persons imagine the link to their interrogation themselves.
[via yankodesign]

link
www.robertstadler.net

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YNZ by Tomohiko Sato

link
www.tomohikosato.com

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Play heads or tails

[via pan-dan]

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Identity Mirror by Hugo Liu

identity mirror (2005)
identity performance - see who you are, not what you look like.

Identity mirror reifies its metaphors in the workings of an ordinary mirror. When the viewer is distant from the object, a question mark is the only keyword painted over his face. As he approaches to a medium distance, larger font sized identity keywords such as "fitness buffs", "fashionistas", and "book lovers" identify him. Approaching further, his favorite book, film, and music genres are seen. Closer yet, his favorite authors, musicians, and auteurs are known, and finally, standing up close, the songs, movies, and book titles become visible.

[Thanks Jenny]

link
larifari.org

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"YEAH...BUT" PAD

"Yeah..but.." That's what I always facing when I have to make a decision.

[via pan-dan]

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Digital Mirror

[via www.metacafe.com]

link
www.ps3focus.com

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Sean Mackaoui

My collage workshop guess tutor.

link
www.mackaoui.com

Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things

link
www.ted.com

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magnetic!! magic?!

by Crealev


by Jeff Lieberman

links
www.crealev.com
www.hi-id.com
www.designspotter.com
bea.st

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about: blank

www.aboutcolonblank.com has a button "Random Goodness" with dice icon. I find out it is quiet handy to get some thing surprising.

Decision-makers Seek Internal Balance, Not Balanced Alternatives

"This is a state of dynamic equilibrium, much like controlling body temperature," said Paulus. "How humans select a particular course of action may be in response to raising or lowering that 'set point' back to their individual comfort zone. In people with psychiatric disorders or addictions, the thermostat may be broken."

link
www.sciencedaily.com

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Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?

The last part is funny!

more link
www.ted.com

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Ghost Whisperer

Try here Ghost Whisperer

It's all about how to trick your mind.
Just like a magic, after you know how it works, nothing special.

Moving eyes and moving thought

"we’re going to see if we can force people to think differently and, without conscious awareness, move their eyes in different ways and influence their thought patterns," Lleras said.
[via sciencedaily]

Mind-wandering

Michael Kane, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, sampled the thoughts of students at eight random times a day for a week. He found that on average, they were not thinking about what they were doing 30 percent of the time.

For some students it was between 80 and 90 percent of the time. Out of the 126 participants, only one denied any mind-wandering at the sampled moments.

Prior work has also turned up average rates of 30 percent to 40 percent in everyday life.

more link
www.nctimes.com
theapp.appstate.edu

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Idea Generator

Need ideas? check this www.tdbspecialprojects.com.
It's like a random TRIZ and gives you imaginations and directions to approach something you want to know or explain. However, how to explain and generate these 3 random words into ideas are based on different people's minds. Therefore, even people get the same words, the explanations they come out would be different. It's a subliminal way to guide/ lead people's thoughts.

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

or on TED,
TED.com

"psychological immune system"
A system of unconscious processes that help people change their view of the world, so that people can feel better about the world in which they find themselves.

I am more interested in this part of his point, about happiness and choice.
Ability of changing your mind is the friend of natural happiness,
but freedom to choice is the enemy of synthetic happiness.

Stumbling on Happiness
ISBN 978-1400077427
[via swissmiss]

more links
www.amazon.com

Derren Brown

I was amazed by Derren Brown. He is a magician but also a psychologist. It's really hard to believe even he explains how it worked in the end, and the explanation is my favourite part of his show.

more links
tv-lins.co.uk - if your internet fast enough.

Generator by Chris Hand

When I first started working on my unit 3 project, this work influenced me quite a lot. After users press the button, 3 random matched words come out. Unconsciously, users start to generate these 3 words in their mind and create a connection between these words.
I am fascinated this process, the generator doesn't tell people what is the answer but it gives them a way to find out or an illusion or a dream. Even the same 3 words read by different people, they will come out different conclusions.

Tricky but clever, I love it!

more links
mungbean.net

nothing

Did you say nothing?
When you were asked what you wanted for
Birthday, Anniversary, Graduation or Christmas.
Don't you remember saying NOTHING
Well this time someone heard you, searched
high and low and found this perfect gift for you.


Such a tricky gift.
Maybe there is a gift called "anything" as well.
Sometimes, I think saying anything or whatever is a irresponsible answer.
We can explain it in a good way, the person is easy going and following every choice other people made.
In the opposite way, the person puts his responsibilities to others. The others may feel pressure about it, coz suddenly his decision affects two people.


more links
A Jar of Nothing Gift
I want one of those

Anything or Whatever

"What would you like to drink?" with a non-committal "anything" or "whatever". Anything is fizzy and comes in six flavours (Cola with Lemon, Apple, Fizz Up, Cloudy Lemon and Root Beer) and Whatever is non-carbonated (Ice Lemon Tea, Peach Tea, Jasmine Green Tea, White Grape Tea, Apple Tea, Chrysanthemum Tea).[via www.springwise.com]

You never know what you get in the next can.

"你要喝啥?" "隨便!" "都可以!"
現在出現罐裝的"隨便" 所以別再回答隨便咧
新加坡幾個月前上市了新的飲料
你永遠不知道下一罐是啥口味
對某些人是驚奇 對某些人是省去了選擇口味的困擾
可是若是連決定汽水或是茶都省去了呢?

Indecisive people tend to put their responsibilities of making decisions on other people or objects.

more links
www.anything.com.sg
Postlaunch_Press_Release.pdf

choice makers

I wish this a real medicine, but it is not unfortunately.
Last March, I went to Copenhagen and bought it from Flow Market.
It's just an empty bottle. However, it's a stereotype who I want to be.
Somehow, I feel that being "indecisive" is a disease.
www.theflowmarket.com

Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking

爆炸頭作者Malcolm Gladwell

作者的髮型很勁爆 但是書的重點不是在他的髮型
這本書主要在說相信直覺(first instinct)
人們對事情的第一個反應已經傳達了很多訊息
你相信分析一對夫妻15分鐘的對話可以測出未來離婚的可能性
正確率達90%?
還在用龜速閱讀
讀到有趣的研究在放上來

There is one chapter talking about John Gottman's research.
"If he (John Gottman) analyzes an hour of a husband and wife talking, he can predict with 95 percent accuracy whether that couple will still be married fifteen years later. If he watches a couple for fifteen minutes, his success rate is around 90 percent."

Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
ISBN 978-0141014593

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

WHY MORE IS LESS? Barry Schwartz talks about the dark side of increasing choices.
之前在想畢業專題要做啥
看到Barry Schwartz的論點
真是開心 原來不是全是我的問題
我常常很難做決定 買個東西都要想個半天
每次跟alice吃飯她都很頭大
因為我無法決定要吃啥
花很多時間在搖擺不定
太多選擇反道成為一種生活上的阻力?

link MANIFESTO
book ISBN 978-0-06-000569-6
[thanks Carlo]