Henry Dreyfuss is the founder and founder of ergonomics. He insisted that the design of industrial products should consider highly comfortable functionality. He once put forward the design principle of “from the inside out”. Later, he began to develop the research of ergonomics and established the discipline of ergonomics for the design world. Dreyfus became the first designer to apply the ergonomic system to the design process.
Nowadays, many companies are thinking about how to design habit-forming products to win greater profits and more users. But as an interaction designer, our original intention is to improve people’s quality of life through design and turn the world into a better place. In Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, the author Nir Eyal explained his pinion that I very much agree with. He mentioned everything becomes potentially more habit-forming. Designers have the superpower to create “attractive” products. The new superpower is threatening but also a powerful ability to improve people’s quality of life.
I firmly believe that as an interaction designer, we need to be responsible for our own design and also uphold Dreyfus’s mindset putting people as the design center. We should not design addictive products to force consumers or customers to form new habits but should understand people’s existing needs. We are designing “things they already want to do but, for lack of solution, don’ do.”
I agree with you that we should design more based on thinking of what people actually needs, as doing deeper research before the track.