How I taught DBW
In 2022, I taught a class using an early draft of the Design for a Better World book (DBW, but it had a very different title then). It was a great class and their comments...
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Next generation air-conditioners
Two publications discuss how better air conditioners can make a better world, especially as the impacts of climate change are already here. Moreover, the high temperatures already being experienced will only get worse. When Heat...
United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals https://sdgs.un.org/goals The UN s SDGs The United Nations has multiple websites. I highly recommend spending time on this site (the URL is directly below the image of the 19 goals). There is a...
WEIRD People: Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic
How societies develop the way they organize and govern themselves differently in different parts of the world. Each way seems so natural to the inhabitants that they cannot understand that others might have developed completely...
Praise for Design for a Better World
Don Norman joining the movement for Don Norman joining the movement for responsible and sustainable design brings considerable heft to the demand for design to transform from a user-centric focus to serving society and the...
How to make a positive impact on the world
A Career Guide so that You CanMake a Better World 80,000 Hours: a project of the Effective Ventures group: registered as a charity and tax-deductible company in England, Wales, Netherlands, and the United States You...
Individual Authors
Paul Polak If you don’t understand the problem you’ve set out to solve from your customers’ perspective; if your product or service won’t dramatically increase their income; and if you can’t sell 100 million of...
Electric Power: Wind, Water, Sun. (and Nuclear)
Mark Jacobson s compelling argument that we must almost all energy sources to be electric. Jacobson, M. Z. (2023). No miracles needed: How today s technology can save our climate and clean our air. Cambridge, United Kingdom...
The DBW Toolkit (for Learners and Teachers, Both)
From the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF). My Videos plus text by IxDF to cover the major points of the book, with considerable supplementary material.
Behavioral Economics: Policy impact and future directions
From the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2023). Behavioral economics: Policy impact and future directions. The National Academies Press. http://nap.nationalacademies.org/26874 An extremely important review of Behavioral...