Design traditions

It’s about how user’s behavior can grow into user’s traditions and what will happen then 

It is often said, that design forms people’s behavior. But after time this behavior usually transforms to traditions. And we have an important question is: what traditions do we want to have?

I’m talking about traditions which turn up as a result of using different products or services.

For example, dinner table can make a family evening and a coffee-table for one person in a cafe manages to focus you on your newspaper. Interior of your office push you to be more serious and your smartphone, teaches you to be in touch with your friends every minute. Bar, MacBook, your Stratocaster, Tv, coffee to go, theatre, headphones, fitness near with home, car, bike, Sony PlayStation, shopping centers: all that things create traditions, either good ones or not. Let’s take Facebook. It created traditions of instant sharing. But it also gave birth to “Phubbing”.

May be we can use this experience to create ideas. Can we think about what traditions we want bring to our lives and which ones we want to reestablish in it and create something from this point of view.

For example, dancing during cooking, family singing or growing vegetables on a windowsill. Think of something good that we lost today and invent a tradition.