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Design for Behaviour Change

Exercise more. Turn off the lights. These are among many messages we receive about how we should change our behaviour for the better. Now a German designer, Matthias Laschke and a team of students are proposing designs that help us make the changes, reports co-exist.

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“if you choose the car key, the bike key drops to the ground, forcing you to pick it up and reconsider your decision.”

He calls them “pleasurable troublemakers” and they include:

  • an elevator that takes you to the floor below where you’re going so you can walk up the last flight of stairs
  • key hooks that will drop the key to your bike lock on the floor when you choose your car key
  • a light turns off slowly unless you keep touching it to indicate you still need the light

On the project’s website, http://www.pleasurabletroublemakers.com, each object comes with a short paper that details the concept. Handy for researcher types!

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