TY - GEN
T1 - People are Doing it for Themselves
AU - Weightman, David
AU - McDonagh, Deana
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - To date, the objective of creating pleasurable products has concentrated on designers articulating and interpreting user needs as part of the product creation process. This paper explores approaches to enable users to adapt, modify, specify or create products to match their needs directly. Using the potential of new technologies, active consumers can now become product creators, paralleling developments in graphics, music and digital media production. Empowered users, self-builders, recreational manufacturers, web-connected silver surfers (retired individuals using the web) and punk manufacturers all exemplify this new relationship between users and products, and the evolving role of designers.
AB - To date, the objective of creating pleasurable products has concentrated on designers articulating and interpreting user needs as part of the product creation process. This paper explores approaches to enable users to adapt, modify, specify or create products to match their needs directly. Using the potential of new technologies, active consumers can now become product creators, paralleling developments in graphics, music and digital media production. Empowered users, self-builders, recreational manufacturers, web-connected silver surfers (retired individuals using the web) and punk manufacturers all exemplify this new relationship between users and products, and the evolving role of designers.
KW - Customisation
KW - Democratisation of design
KW - Supra-functional needs
KW - User participation
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U2 - 10.1145/782896.782905
DO - 10.1145/782896.782905
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:1642293474
SN - 1581136528
SN - 9781581136524
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
SP - 34
EP - 39
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, dppi
Y2 - 23 June 2003 through 26 June 2003
ER -