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Hmwrk # 4

Tim Brown talks about going from design to design thinking. He said that by focusing on a design he was being incremental. If you focus less on the object and more on the design approach that we would see more of an impact. I liked the part where he said that design is human centered. Design starts with what humans need and what makes life easier or technology more enjoyable. Then he talks about the hearing aid in India and how they started with the people instead of the technology. By developing the product off of the actual needs of the people. I think that this is smarter way of designing versus just coming up with an idea and then figuring out how to use it.

Functional Vs. Unfunctional Product

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Neils Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down

     After watching the video of Neils Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down and listening to his story it left me with a sense of admiration for him.  You can tell that he was passionate about his work.  When he was talking about engineering and designing planes he kept referring to it as a romance.  He loved everything about flying down to the smallest detail and he brought that love into his work and designs.  When he was done working on planes he started thinking about the countless number of people who are either in offices or sit behind desks or computers all day and night.  He brought that same aspect of romance into his designs for his chairs.  He spent about 8 or 9 years trying to design a chair to accommodate the majority of people.  He also tried to make them do as much as mechanically possible without having to adjust all sorts of knobs or levels.  One might conclude that if all designs had that element of romance to them that they would be well designed.