Reflection: Paul Bennett

This video is very insightful as to how the smallest of changes to an environment or design can inflict other things on a larger scale. often the simplest ideas are completely over looked because they are just so simple. This conveys that we need to put ourselves, as the designers, into the shoes of the people we are designing for and can therefore obtain simple ideas that would not have been thought of before. For example small changes to the hospital bed and environment around it were driven from somebody experiencing lying in a hospital bed.

This helps to shape me as a designer because it shows that not all ideas have to be complicated to make a difference or to be successful. Some of the simplest ideas in the world are some of our most successful inventions and such simple ideas will always be there however we need to take a step back from complicated ideas to think almost child like again in a world of simplicity.