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From the Ted Talk by Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

And even something as innocuous as a single-design _____, like this one by Arne Jacobsen, is a persuasive __________, because, again, it ____________ an idea of the good life: a good life — a life that you, as a ________, _______ to by saying, "In a good life, goods are produced as sustainably or unsustainably as this chair. _______ are treated as well or as badly as the workers were _______ that built that chair." The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous ___________, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.

Solution

  1. consent
  2. consumption
  3. communicates
  4. technology
  5. designer
  6. workers
  7. treated
  8. chair

Original Text

And even something as innocuous as a single-design chair, like this one by Arne Jacobsen, is a persuasive technology, because, again, it communicates an idea of the good life: a good life — a life that you, as a designer, consent to by saying, "In a good life, goods are produced as sustainably or unsustainably as this chair. Workers are treated as well or as badly as the workers were treated that built that chair." The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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driving behavior 2
persuasive technology 2

Important Words

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