Objects with symbolic meaning: 16 directions to inspire design for well-being

Casais, Mafalda; Mugge, Ruth; Desmet, Pieter

doi:10.1504/jdr.2018.099538

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“…We decided to examine the design strategies underlying the chosen design examples following a method used in similar studies investigating how design can be manipulated to facilitate certain experiences, such as strategies to incite surprise [5], dilemma [33], and well-being related symbolic meaning [34]. The authors examined the images of products together with the descriptions of the product experiences through the lens of a theoretical framework, revealing the underlying design strategies that are both more direct or literal (e.g., appearance and behavior) and more abstract or metaphorical (e.g., symbolic association).…”

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confidence: 99%

Design for Breathtaking Experiences: An Exploration of Design Strategies to Evoke Awe in Human–Product Interactions

Yoon

2020

MTI

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From looking up at a skyscraper to the Grand Canyon’s vastness, you may have experienced awe in one way or another. Awe is experienced when one encounters something greater or more powerful than themselves and is associated with prosocial behavior through a diminishment of self-importance. In design research, most studies on awe have been conducted in lab conditions by using technologies such as virtual reality because of its efficiency to simulate typical awe-stimulating conditions (e.g., nature scenes). While useful in inducing awe and assessing its effects on users, they give little guidance about how design can deliberately evoke awe. Most attempts focus on the response of awe instead of its eliciting conditions. With an aim to support designers to facilitate awe, this paper explores design strategies to evoke awe. Based on appraisal theory, the cause of awe was formulated, and its relevance to designing for awe was investigated. The conditions that underlie awe in design were explored through a survey in which participants reported 150 awe experiences, resulting in six design strategies. The paper describes these strategies and discusses how they can be used in a design process, giving attention to addressing the experiential value of awe.

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Design for Breathtaking Experiences: An Exploration of Design Strategies to Evoke Awe in Human–Product Interactions

Yoon

2020

MTI

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“…The name Mademoiselle allows "dressing" ordinary chairs in unusual "dresses", the patterns of which are the leitmotifs of leading fashion houses. The object takes on symbolic meanings (Casais et al, 2018).…”

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Installation: From Ready-Made To Hand-Made Design

Pigulevskiy¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The introduction to ready-made art practice leads to a revision of the traditional art model and the trend development of the things-signs manipulation in the design. Understanding the concept of "ready-made" is not possible outside of the cultural context. Given the special kind of organized symbolic space, readymade art becomes the basis of installations. The establishment of a signified object in a certain context leads to the transformation of signifiers, the emergence of connotations and associations. In a postmodern situation, the principle of citing the past is realized in design as the installation of commonplace things, forming an original meaning. Along with high technology and poetic inventions of exquisite things, a handmade design arises, the essence of which is in witty design decisions by manipulating typical consumer goods. Taken in the context of a specific space, hand-made design products act as installations. Installations are created as part of pop design, anti-design, deconstruction and postindustrial areas. Traditionally, design installations are showcases, showrooms, structures in the interior and exterior of the urban environment. The installation has a special function in park areas and places of entertainment -the creation of a fantasy space that can surprise, entertain and give rest to the visitor. Technical ingenuity and intellectual confrontation with the mainstream as a principle of hand-made design and installation view allow designing original things from the banal, beat things-signs in different contexts, provoking new connotations and distant associations.

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“…Designers and (NPD) managers can use this Product Care Kit in their design process to encourage consumers to take care of their products. Prior research on toolkits has used categorizations of large sets of relevant product examples or principles coming from desk research and workshops [36][37][38] as the research methodology to uncover significant design strategies. Correspondingly, our research will use a combination of desk research and workshops to distill design strategies for product care.…”

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Design for Product Care—Development of Design Strategies and a Toolkit for Sustainable Consumer Behaviour

Ackermann

Tuimaka²,

Pohlmeyer³

et al. 2021

J Sustain Res

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Background: Taking care of products is a relevant approach to prolong products' lifetimes and retain their desired level of performance, and is thus an important aspect of sustainable consumer behaviour. Although consumers have a general motivation to take care of their products, previous research has shown that they struggle to repair, maintain or treat their products carefully in daily life. Design has the potential to increase consumers' product care activities, but designers need more knowledge and distinct strategies to evoke this product care behaviour with consumers.Methods: By the means of a multi-method approach-individual and group brainstorming sessions as well as an analysis of existing solutionswe created a large number of ideas on how to stimulate product care among consumers.Results: We were able to summarize these ideas in a clustering session into eight strategies and 24 sub-strategies that can foster product care through design. These eight strategies are: social connections, informing, enabling, appropriation, control, awareness, antecedents & consequences, and reflecting. The integration of the consumer perspective into strategies for product care extends currently known design strategies for repair and maintenance. To support designers in the implementation of these strategies, we developed a toolkit that can be used in the product development process of different product categories.Conclusions: This paper identifies product care strategies that have a distinct focus on the consumers' perspective of sustainable behaviour and that can be stimulated through design. These rather psychologicallydriven strategies thereby complement existing technology-and productoriented design strategies. Furthermore, to facilitate implementation, a design toolkit has been developed that points to key requirements in practice.

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Objects with symbolic meaning: 16 directions to inspire design for well-being

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Design for Breathtaking Experiences: An Exploration of Design Strategies to Evoke Awe in Human–Product Interactions

Design for Breathtaking Experiences: An Exploration of Design Strategies to Evoke Awe in Human–Product Interactions

Installation: From Ready-Made To Hand-Made Design

Design for Product Care—Development of Design Strategies and a Toolkit for Sustainable Consumer Behaviour

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