Comments on: What people say versus what they do http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2009/11/03/say_versus_do/ chapter four - my 30s Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: farhanlalji http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2009/11/03/say_versus_do/comment-page-1/#comment-509 farhanlalji Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:36:39 +0000 http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/?p=289#comment-509 Thanks Andrew. Agreed that it's probably not sustainable - however it could be sustainable, say for example in tourist locations, or other high first time traffic areas.<br><br>But that wasn't the point. The point is that asking people what they would do isn't always true to their actual behavior.<br><br><br><br><br>________________________________ Thanks Andrew. Agreed that it's probably not sustainable – however it could be sustainable, say for example in tourist locations, or other high first time traffic areas.

But that wasn't the point. The point is that asking people what they would do isn't always true to their actual behavior.

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]]> By: Andrew http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2009/11/03/say_versus_do/comment-page-1/#comment-508 Andrew Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:33:32 +0000 http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/?p=289#comment-508 Hi Farhan, this got a bit of an airing at Playful '09 in London last week (<a href="http://www.thisisplayful.com" rel="nofollow">www.thisisplayful.com</a>). <br><br>One perspective was that it's a great example of using playfulness to change behaviour. The alternative is that it's actually very short-termist and has a great initial hit, but isn't sustainable (and actually, just a little bit annoying). We really need to see a bit more in the way of longer-term evidence to see the point at which the impact diminishes/plateaus as I suspect it does, but... playfulness does have a huge role to play in design (Tweetie 2's 'pull to refresh' feature on the iPhone, being a really simple recent example). Hi Farhan, this got a bit of an airing at Playful '09 in London last week (http://www.thisisplayful.com).

One perspective was that it's a great example of using playfulness to change behaviour. The alternative is that it's actually very short-termist and has a great initial hit, but isn't sustainable (and actually, just a little bit annoying). We really need to see a bit more in the way of longer-term evidence to see the point at which the impact diminishes/plateaus as I suspect it does, but… playfulness does have a huge role to play in design (Tweetie 2's 'pull to refresh' feature on the iPhone, being a really simple recent example).

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