Noticing these thoughtless acts really helped me reimagine how we interact with the world or utilize our surroundings in a way that makes navigating through our experiences easier. We design buildings with elevators to make navigating from floor to floor easier and to build our buildings higher, we design doorways to organize the way we go from room to room or exit to exit, and use our computers as stands for our phones. We design our lives in a way that makes it convenient or easier for us. Thoughtless acts can be seen everyday as we design interact with our lives. It makes me curious on why are we compelled to design and interact with our surroundings a certain way and why do we “thoughtlessly” arrange our reality the way we do and what does convenience make us feel?
For example, some thoughtless acts I witnessed were pretty easy to spot. The first one is putting a capo on the end of a guitar — the end of the guitar is not made for that nor is the capo, but it makes it convenient for us to use when we need it. Another is placing frames on the ledge of a bar which is meant to place plugs in easier reach and hanging a bag on the back of your chair. Both are not meant to be used in the way that they are, but they are both utilized to place objects in a easier manner. Some ideas to address these situations would be to have a hanger on the back of your seat or a capo on the guitar for its immediate convenience. Another design idea is to create a frame where the frame would have an adhesive which would stick on and off the wall.