Design With Intent: Free eBook

This is probably the best free eBook I have downloaded in a while. It doesn’t require email subscribption or anything either, you just need to go there and download it. It’s titled Design With Intent.

What is it about? The sub-title describes it quite well: 101 Patterns for Influencing Behaviour Through Design. The authors collected 101 examples of ways you can influence people to do what you want by adapting or changing the way you design things. These “things” range from car dashboards to web pages and product packages. Here is one of the pages to give you an idea:

The eBook is a must have for designers, but it should be valuable to anyone else really. Check it out.