Forum 7: The Psychology/Design of Everyday Things

Please read the article The Psychology of Everyday Things posted below this Forum. Afterwards, in a post to this Forum, come up with 2 examples of your own. Describe each in detail and post pictures if possible. A paragraph for each would be fine.

My Response:

My first example is my Samsung smartphone it has many functionalities and uses one such use is Samsung pay. Most cashiers do not understand how to use Samsung pay or Android pay. It is designed to be convenient at the cash register. However, I tend to attract strange looks from the cashier and other people around me as I tried to pay for items using my phone. I would say using one of these smartphones to pay for items has a success rate of about 75%. Most people don’t know that you can use the smartphones to pay for items and so they do not know how to use it. There are many features on the smartphone that I have yet to discover and use.

Image Source: https://www.samsung.com/us/galaxy/note8/

My second example is the internet. The internet is always evolving and there is always something inventive and new at the Universities and Colleges, we rely on the internet heavily to print and do research. If the network at the school ever goes down you cannot print or do research on any of the computers you can still teach however there are some teachers that heavily rely on having internet when they teach.

Image Source: http://www.goldenrural.org/internet/