If anyone's interested in discussing this approach to things, Joe Edelman's made a couple of talks about what he refers to as Empowering Design (first two links

If anyone's interested in discussing this approach to things, Joe Edelman's made a couple of talks about what he refers to as Empowering Design (first two links here: http://nxhx.org/ http://nxhx.org/) He's made a prototype chrome extension of the app he describes in the second talk, which is designed to collect people's reasons for using things & their thoughts/feelings around those reasons. Here's the github and gitter: https://github.com/livable/reasons https://github.com/livable/reasons https://gitter.im/livablemedia/reasons https://gitter.im/livablemedia/reasons