Task 5 - Paul Bennett

Paul Bennett speaks about how good design doesnt always have to be artistically designed and as well that it can be quite unnecessary, and miss the point of a products purpose. He uses examples of how non-designers already design things made out of readily available resources, either to save time by dumping a trolley by letting it rest next to a pole or by putting a plastic bag over a parking metre to say it isnt working..or as it goes in Britain at least. From this Bennett explains how exploring the users environment and habitiual behaviors opens a new set of options to the designing solution, options that take into consideration the way the user will use it and interact with it, without simply just thinking of the way it is going to look. For example the Ikea kiddy storage unit, instead of a brightly colouring a smaller shelving unit, the designers sought out to examine how a child percieved storage, and from that a square with 4 doorhandle-like protrusions was concieved to be arranged in multiple numbers to make an area of these door handle like shapes to allow objects to be jammed in between the knobs and hold them.