Resources on experience enrichment

Don Norman at TED Feb 2003 Conference: Three ways design can make you happy

Don Norman: Attractive things work better

The Open University: Designing for pleasures

Patrick W Jordan: Designing pleasurable products.

Some tips on handtool design.

Don Norman on Emotional Design.



Stefan Sagmeister on TED Feb 2004 conference: how design can make you happy and his sequel on what he has learned in design and life in TED Feb 2008.




John Maeda on TED Mar 2007 conference: design and simplicity.



Dan Gilbert asks "Why are we happy/ not happy?" at TED Feb 2004 conference.




Benjamin Wallace on TASTE3 Jul 2008 Conference: Does happiness have a price tag?

Resources on user-centric design

Cartoon from The Born Loser,11 May 1986

Don Norman: Design of everyday things



http://www.baddesigns.com/

http://www.thisisbroken.com/

http://www.ease-of-use.org.uk/

The Open University: People-centred designing.

The Design Council: User centred design.

The Design Council: Product Design.

The Design Council: Better by Design.

The Design Council: A week in the life of a designer.

Resources on creative thinking

Online videos to watch or PDFs to read in order to stimulate your brain to think creatively. No need to write reflections...

Tim Brown at TED Conference: Creativity and play
©2008 TED Serious Play Conference




IDEO: Deep Dive: Redesigning the supermarket trolley - part 1 - part 2 - part 3
©1999 ABC News Nightline




IDEO Method Cards: 51 ways to inspire design ©2003 IDEO Human Factors



Edward de Bono: Six Thinking Hats




Edward de Bono: Six Thinking Hats lecture part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 wikipedia article

Edward de Bono: Lateral thinking

Eyewire: Creativity Cards

Roger von Oech: Creativity Whack Pack

The Design Council: Brainstorming.

Chic Thompson: www.whatagreatidea.com

Epstein Creativity Competencies Inventory www.mycreativityskills.com

Creating your blogsite

Click here to view a beginners' guide on blogsite creation, and a video demonstration below.

Task 2: Product Sketching

The following video tutorials and books on industrial design sketching would be very helpful for the assignment on sketching objects viewed during the Sydney Design 09 festival.

Koos Eissen + Roselien Steur. 2009. Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers. UNSW Library 741.2/77.

Dick Powell. 1990. Presentation Techniques. UNSW Library 745.2/55

Alan Pipes. 2007. Drawing for Designers. UNSW Library 745.2/227.

Nenad Pavel. 2005. The Industrial Designer's Guide to Sketching. UNSW Library 745.2/236.

Spencer Nugent. 2009 Video Tutorial: Sketching and Shading with Prismacolor Pencil.

Spencer Nugent. 2009. Video Tutorial: Sketching a cellphone.

And lots more here and at www.idsketching.com