# Designing for Humans

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby
- Year: 2003
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Computer science
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/designing-humans)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Previous lectures looked at the inside of gadgets, but this is less than half the story. When we use complex systems we often fall into traps; we acquire beliefs about what is achievable and act on them. Often we don’t know we have these beliefs, and are at the mercy of the system’s design. Whatever our beliefs about what we should do, we may act otherwise; e.g. walking away from a ticket machine taking the tickets but leaving the change.

## Lectures

1. [Designing for Humans](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/designing-humans/6a2629badd4d) (YouTube)