| Architecture of (bladder) Control |
[20 Oct 2006|01:22pm] |
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I find this blog very interesting. The author examines the ways that the designers of products and systems incorporate elements that control the user, and either encourage or compel them to behave a certain way. As I was getting myself a cup of tea in work this morning, I overheard a colleague talking about a problem at the tanning salon his wife runs. Each cubicle has a bin in it, and a regular customer has apparently taken to vomiting and urinating in it (the guy reckoned the tannee in question might be bulimic). I suggested he get round the problem by using wire mesh bins. While he was chuffed with this idea, I'm slightly worried that I managed to devise an 'architecture of control' after only a few seconds thought. I must have authoritarian tendancies...
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