Long-Term Goals or Immediate Desires?

Long-Term Goals or Immediate Desires?: Introducing a Toolset for Designing with Self-Control Dilemmas

Ozkaramanli, D. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics)
Ozcan Vieira, E. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics)
Desmet, P.M.A. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics)

2017

This paper suggests that designers can frame user behaviour in terms of the conflicts between long-term goals and immediate desires (i.e. self-control dilemmas), and address these conflicts by facilitating the pursuit of long-term goals. A phenomenological study provided an understanding of self-control dilemmas and the strategies people use to deal with these dilemmas. Based on this understanding, this paper proposes a framework for analysing self-control dilemmas and three supporting design strategies. The framework can act as an analysis tool when distinguishing between long-term goals and immediate desires, and the design strategies can facilitate generation of ideas that can address self-control dilemmas. Understanding these human principles offers novel opportunities for products, services, or policies that contribute to subjective well-being

self-control dilemma
user-centred design
design tools
user behaviour
subjective well-being

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3dafc907-f8b7-437b-8014-8ae9388f0a76

https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1272831

2018-08-21

1460-6925

The Design Journal, 20 (2), 219-238

Accepted author manuscript

Institutional Repository

journal article

© 2017 D. Ozkaramanli, E. Ozcan Vieira, P.M.A. Desmet