When designing something, understanding the context in which it will “live” is important. I took this photo on a subway platform. In the context of someone standing on the platform in front of this ad, it is a bit scary. It was probably not the designer’s intention to put a gun to someone’s head. Good designers understand how the world interacts with their creations.
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If only things worked well. If only... [fill in the blank].
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That’s a really interesting and disturbing image. It raises a question… Even if I had thought about the context of design a priori, I still might not have pictured all the weird contexts my design could have landed in. How then do you think about context without going crazy and trying to think of ALL the contexts. Is there a general question that is still more specific than, “What will the context be?” to help designers think through a potentially embarrassing display?