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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I don't know whether you know the great communication researcher Paul Watzlawick who, back in the '60s, made the arneumgt that we cannot not communicate. Even if we choose to be slneit, we chose to be silent, and we're communicating something by choosing to be silent. And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade: whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the wrold, has a persuasive component. It tries to affect people. It puts a certain vision of the good life out there in fonrt of us,
Open Cloze
I don't know whether you know the great communication researcher Paul Watzlawick who, back in the '60s, made the ________ that we cannot not communicate. Even if we choose to be ______, we chose to be silent, and we're communicating something by choosing to be silent. And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade: whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the _____, has a persuasive component. It tries to affect people. It puts a certain vision of the good life out there in _____ of us,
Solution
- front
- argument
- world
- silent
Original Text
I don't know whether you know the great communication researcher Paul Watzlawick who, back in the '60s, made the argument that we cannot not communicate. Even if we choose to be silent, we chose to be silent, and we're communicating something by choosing to be silent. And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade: whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the world, has a persuasive component. It tries to affect people. It puts a certain vision of the good life out there in front of us,
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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good life |
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driving behavior |
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persuasive technology |
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