Comments on: Evil Design https://blog.learnlets.com/2011/12/evil-design/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:08:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2011/12/evil-design/#comment-135722 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:08:20 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=2326#comment-135722 Mobile ideation are sessions where we brainstorm ideas about how we might use these devices for learning. It’s real time, not asynchronous (though ideally would be spread over time).

]]> By: Vic Ward https://blog.learnlets.com/2011/12/evil-design/#comment-135637 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:03:11 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=2326#comment-135637 I agree the system is often broken. But, I have another question, what is a mobile ideation session? Is it in real time or asynchronous?

Just wondering, mobile ideation could help on many projects i work on. Never heard of it before.
peace

]]> By: David Glow https://blog.learnlets.com/2011/12/evil-design/#comment-132968 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:25:16 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=2326#comment-132968 TED talk by Seth Godin “This is Broken” – illustrates Evil Designs all around us. Thanks for this post! – @criticallearner

]]> By: Rob Moser https://blog.learnlets.com/2011/12/evil-design/#comment-132430 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:24:20 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/?p=2326#comment-132430 Why is it that so many examples of this sort of thing seem to revolve around cars?

Evil design runs rampant throughout anything to do with parking. Almost nothing regulating parking seems to have to do with actually ensuring that parking spaces are available for people who need them – which is presumably the point of any sort of parking restriction. Every bit of it seems streamlined for revenue collection. At our university here, when you get a parking ticket (and if you inadvisedly venture anywhere near the campus with a car, you WILL get a parking ticket) it has a blurb on the back saying that temporary permits can be purchased online. “Oh!” I think, imagining being able to go to a university site, sign in with my id, charge through to the university billing system, and print a temporary permit out on a laser printer; “how sensibly convenient!” Only the link on the ticket doesn’t work, and there apparently _is_ no way to generate a temporary permit online – this is apparently just a trap to catch people in a second ticket, thinking they now know how to get a permit! I could build the website that would generate these permits in maybe a week tops, and I’m no web designer, so it can’t be technical difficulty stopping them. And they’ve already had the _idea_ for doing it, or the blurb wouldn’t be on the ticket. But why would they want to help people avoid tickets? They get paid for giving people tickets.

*grumble* *grumble*

That said, I have to admit to a tiny little sliver of grudging admiration for evil design when I see it done particularly cleverly. A sliver in a storm of rage, perhaps, but it’s there nonetheless.

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