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From the Ted Talk by Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality

Unscramble the Blue Letters

This first project is a holiday card I made for my friends. My goal in this was to get people to nocite this going-through-the-motions hladoiy thing that I'm sure we've all felt before. And I did that through a holiday card, of course. From the outside, it looks pretty normal. But paper has this memory; ppear never forgets how it was bent. I was able to use that material mermoy to guide the ricepient through the experience of the card. So when you first pick it up, while floppy, it's clear it wants to bend in all of these certain ways. As people tinker with it, they discover that bending the card brings them through this simple sroty. And as you can see, it's a story about itself.

Open Cloze

This first project is a holiday card I made for my friends. My goal in this was to get people to ______ this going-through-the-motions _______ thing that I'm sure we've all felt before. And I did that through a holiday card, of course. From the outside, it looks pretty normal. But paper has this memory; _____ never forgets how it was bent. I was able to use that material ______ to guide the _________ through the experience of the card. So when you first pick it up, while floppy, it's clear it wants to bend in all of these certain ways. As people tinker with it, they discover that bending the card brings them through this simple _____. And as you can see, it's a story about itself.

Solution

  1. story
  2. recipient
  3. paper
  4. notice
  5. memory
  6. holiday

Original Text

This first project is a holiday card I made for my friends. My goal in this was to get people to notice this going-through-the-motions holiday thing that I'm sure we've all felt before. And I did that through a holiday card, of course. From the outside, it looks pretty normal. But paper has this memory; paper never forgets how it was bent. I was able to use that material memory to guide the recipient through the experience of the card. So when you first pick it up, while floppy, it's clear it wants to bend in all of these certain ways. As people tinker with it, they discover that bending the card brings them through this simple story. And as you can see, it's a story about itself.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
record player 3
paper record 3
utopian future 3
hidden talents 2
holiday card 2
recursive experience 2
york city 2
making amends 2

Important Words

  1. bend
  2. bending
  3. bent
  4. brings
  5. card
  6. clear
  7. discover
  8. experience
  9. felt
  10. floppy
  11. forgets
  12. friends
  13. goal
  14. guide
  15. holiday
  16. material
  17. memory
  18. normal
  19. notice
  20. paper
  21. people
  22. pick
  23. pretty
  24. project
  25. recipient
  26. simple
  27. story
  28. tinker
  29. ways