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Poka-yoke
Eight design patterns for errorproofing
Salt licked?
Hard to handle
Lights reminding you to turn things off
Design with Intent presentation from Persuasive 2008
Un-hiding an affordance
Getting someone to do things in a particular order (Part 3)
Home-made instant poka-yokes
Spear’s Spellmaster: Poka-yoke in the classroom
Full, tilt
How this research will be moving forward
Tidying up the /cig-bin
Education, forcing functions and understanding
Shaping behaviour: Part 1
Preventing baggage trolleys going down the escalator
Product psychology to discourage anti-social behaviour
The Tell-Tale Part
Using trees to encourage safer driving
Speed control designed to help the user
The illusion of control
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