David Kelley - Human Centred Design

I've learned alot from this inspirational video about David Kelley, discussing about him and his firm's works over the years.


The video is about David Kelly, who is a great designer, talking about how he focuses more and more of his work on Human-Centered Design, human centered-ness in approach to design, which involves designing behaviors and personality into products.

5 innovative works of his are introduced, which are all human-centered.

I think all of them are very innovative, since I've never seen anything like it, and I am particularly impressed by his work for Prada. The scanning device that enables people to see how it looks like in different sizes and in the runway, the Liquid Crystal in the dressing room, a scanner for security reason and the magic mirror. The magic mirror, I think will be sought after by many high-end fashion stores, since it can enable customers to see them wearing clothes in different angles. However, I think there can be improvement for the magic mirror. If only the customer is able to zoom in and out, so they can see them wearing the clothes from afar, whether it fits them perfectly or not.



The interactive wall in London museum and the interactive game are pretty good, since the combination of colors and lightings seems to match, enabling people who come to visit to see something beautiful and will be able to learn more about the museum as well.

However, the Dilbert cubicle, although good, seems to bland and I think, is not imaginative or playful enough for that kind of office environment.

The display for the London museum, I have to say is genius, since it oozes elegance and allows visitors to learn easily as well. The colors picked is excellent since it is designed for a quiet environment, and the dark colors, combined with the usage of bright colors, which aren't too bright are perfect in complimenting each other to achieve the feel of a quiet environment.

I have to say I am disappointed by the innovation of SpyFish, although still in development, the usage of cable which is connected to a device located on the boat can endanger the people on the boat. The camera (device), which is put underwater, if hits an aggressive predator (which it did on the video), I think, can possibly trigger an aggresive behavior which will make the fish try to eat the device (pulling of the device) which causes the boat to be unstable, and eventually loses balance and flips over, endangering the people inside it.

The last one that he talked about (Approtec), is important for designers, that is to inspire them to actually design for people who need it. The fact that the proceeds is going to charity and that it accounts 0.6% of Kenya's GDP is amazing.

After watching this video, I finally understand how designers can make people's lives easier using their designs, and also that in order to do well in design, I have to be able to understand many kinds of material and study them to be able to design something good or decent.

Industrial designers are encouraged to see this video because this man will inspire them to make something innovative, useful and able to help people who need it. It also teaches people that sometimes creating a good design can take years (the Spyfish project has taken him 8 years to develop!).

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