Thursday, April 05, 2012

Design and Usage



When the first Ford Taurus had a net in the trunk so grocery bags could be secured I expected that nets would be the norm within a few years. Such was not the case.

I often speak in training and meeting rooms that could not have been designed by a speaker. The room flaws usually involve audio-visual complications or barriers between the speaker and the audience. This should not be surprising. Consider how often you've seen new buildings that seemed fine until people began to use them. One of my favorite examples is a modernistic city hall that provided two areas for meetings: a room that held 12 people or the massive city council chambers. There was no other alternative.


These examples should cause us to examine which things, positive or negative, should be kept or corrected in our own workplaces.  That could be a productive scavenger hunt.

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