Catching the Next Wave

S1.E7. Marc Hassenzahl. Friction Is Good.

Episode Summary

Have you ever thought what responsibility means with respect to experience design? How technology might be appropriated for good or for evil? Marc Hassenzahl, experience design professor at Siegen University in Germany, talks about the need for 'troubles and secrets', provocation and the effortful design.

Episode Notes

Have you ever thought what responsibility means with respect to experience design? How might technology be appropriated for good or for evil? Marc Hassenzahl, the experience design professor at Siegen University in Germany, talks about the need for troubles and secrets, provocation and the effortful design.

Important Links:

“Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons” by Marc Hassenzahl

“The Comfort of Things” by Daniel Miller

Pleasurable troublemakers: Keymoment]

Pleasurable troublemakers: The Chocolate Machine]

Pleasurable troublemakers: Forget-Me-Not