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Every picture, video and dataset in this course:who made it, where it comes from and the licence that lets us show it.Thank you to everyone who shares their work freely.

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A close view of a carved stone jaali, a lattice of hexagons and stars with daylight and arches showing through.A carved stone jaali at the Red Fort.Photo: "Stone detail, Red Fort" by flowcomm, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Part 1: Form, function and the everyday object

Unglazed clay water pots stacked for sale, with round bellies and wide rims, one fitted with a small plastic tap.Clay water pots for sale in Hyderabad.Photo: Bhaskaranaidu, public domain (released by its author), via Wikimedia Commons.
An empty classroom with rows of wooden desks and chairs, two ceiling fans, open windows and a green blackboard.Someone chose the height of every desk, the place of every fan and the width of every window.Photo: "Classroom" by Barry Pousman from New York, NY, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A wide, flat metal bar runs across a frosted glass door, with the word push set in a triangle at its centre.A push bar on a lobby door at 570 Lexington Avenue: wide, flat and fixed across the door, made for a palm, with the word built in.Photo: Spinklink, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Two curved metal pull handles on a pair of panelled doors, each standing off the wood with room behind it for fingers.Door pulls at the US Department of the Interior: each handle stands off the door and leaves room behind it for your fingers.Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey, public domain (US government work), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
VideoIt's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.From the channel Vox. Watch the full video.
A green sign on a glass door reads push in Hebrew and English.A push sign on a glass door in Jerusalem, in Hebrew and English.Photo: "Jerusalem hebrew Push sign" by Djampa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A passage of an 1896 magazine page: the words form ever follows function stand in italics, followed by and this is the law.Sullivan's essay in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, March 1896, printed page 408, where "form ever follows function" stands in italics, then "and this is the law".Scan: Louis H. Sullivan, public domain (author died in 1924), via Internet Archive. Cropped by One Young India.
A red brick office tower seen from the corner, its tall piers rising between the windows to a deep, carved cornice.The Wainwright Building in St Louis, built in 1890 and 1891 to a design by Adler and Sullivan: one of the tall office buildings Sullivan wrote about.Photo: "Wainwright Building, 7th Street and Chestnut Street, St. Louis, MO" by w_lemay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A small lamp with a panel of LEDs on a folding plastic arm, standing on a concrete ledge against a blue wall.A small solar desk lamp with a panel of LEDs on a folding arm: the kind of object the lamp brief in this chapter asks for.Photo: Rotimi8, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A row of four red rocker switches between two round fan regulators on a white wall board, with letters written below in red.An old switchboard at Parvatipuram, Vizianagaram district: four switches in a row between two fan regulators.Photo: "Old type switch board at Parvatipuram" by Adityamadhav83, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A rendered close-up of a screw head with a cross-shaped slot.A standard cross-head screw, a reversible joint: a common screwdriver opens it.Render: Andrew Pertsev, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A rendered close-up of a screw head with a five-lobed star-shaped socket.A five-lobed screw head: the read lists screws like this with glue and welds, the joints that keep a repairer out.Render: Andrew Pertsev, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A toaster with its outer case taken off, showing the bundled wires, a small circuit board and the metal frame inside.A toaster with its outer case taken off, its wires and heating slots open to a repairer's hands.Photo: Saeidpourbabak, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A yellow railway station board with the name Narwana Junction in black letters, in Hindi, Urdu and English.The station board at Narwana Junction, photographed in 2012: black letters on yellow, the name in Hindi, Urdu and English.Photo: "Narwana railway station board" by Imajaymalik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Two circles of coloured dots from a colour vision test, each with a number hidden in dots of another colour.Two redrawn plates from Shinobu Ishihara's colour vision test.Drawing: RWhitwam, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A traffic light against a blue sky, its top lamp glowing red and the two lamps below it dark.A traffic light in North Carolina showing red.Photo: Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.

Part 2: Empathy, users and design thinking

A concrete kerb ramp slopes down to the road at a crossing, with a dark pad of raised bumps where it meets the street.A kerb ramp with a pad of raised bumps at a crossing in Winooski, Vermont.Photo: Ezekielf, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A bare dirt track cuts across a grass lawn beside a paved path, worn by people taking the shorter way.A desire path: a line worn across the grass where people chose their own way, beside the paved path someone drew for them.Photo: "Desire path" by Metro Centric, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
Two diamonds side by side, the first labelled Discover and Define, the second Develop and Deliver, with arrows between the stages.The Double Diamond as the UK's Design Council draws it: Discover and Define find the right problem, then Develop and Deliver find the right solution.Diagram: Design Council, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A double page of old handwritten notes, covered in rows of small curved geometric drawings, each one a little different.A page of Leonardo da Vinci's notes (Codex Atlanticus, folio 455 recto): row after row of one curved figure, drawn again and again with small changes.Drawing: Leonardo da Vinci, public domain (author died more than 70 years ago), via Wikimedia Commons.
Hands hold a pen over paper sketches of website screens spread out on a wooden table.A paper prototype of a course website, 2015: each screen drawn by hand, so people can try it before anyone writes code.Photo: Sage Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A sign-up form on a laptop screen during a test of a website, a participant's fingertip pointing at it.A researcher and a test participant try a website together.Photo: "Project User Experience Testing" by Samuel Mann from Dunedin, New Zealand, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
The open cockpit of a jet fighter: a seat with harness straps, a control stick, foot pedals and dials around them.The cockpit of an RAAF Avon Sabre fighter at the Classic Jets Fighter Museum in Adelaide.Photo: "Avon Sabre A94-974 cockpit" by Peripitus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Carved stone screens line a dark corridor, sunlight falling through their small openings in bright patches on the floor.Stone jaalis at Sarkhej Roza: the screens break the hard sun into small patches of light and let the breeze through.Photo: "Jaali at Sarkhej Roza" by Chaitra.sharad, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A painted courtyard open to the sky, its walls covered in murals, with shuttered windows, a carved doorway and a small fountain.The first courtyard of a nineteenth-century haveli in Fatehpur, Rajasthan, open to the sky.Photo: Behenjara, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Part 3: Systems, services and the public realm

An empty metro station walkway under coloured lights, railings on both sides, and a strip of ridged tiles that turns at a studded square.A walkway in Kasba Peth metro station, Pune.Photo: DesiBoy101, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A paved footpath runs level across the mouth of a side street, so turning cars must cross the walkers' path.A continuous footway at Ryland Road: the pavement runs level across the side street, so a turning car must climb up to the level of the walkers.Photo: Camden Cyclists, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Light green metal chairs stand at odd angles on a gravel path, casting long shadows, none fixed in place.Light chairs in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris.Photo: "Chairs in Jardin du Luxembourg" by Olga Khomitsevich, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A low ledge beside a building, its top studded with short metal pins so nobody can sit on it.Pins along a ledge in Washington, DC, so nobody can sit on it.Photo: Valereee, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A sheltered stretch of pavement paved with rows of raised pyramid studs, beside a wall covered in graffiti.Studs laid in a sheltered spot in Shoreditch, London, so nobody can lie down.Photo: "Anti-Homeless Floor Spikes" by Cory Doctorow, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A slanted metal leaning bar bolted to a subway platform floor, where a bench might have stood.A leaning bar on a subway platform in Manhattan: a perch, not a seat.Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
A low round brick platform built around the trunk of an old banyan tree, with aerial roots hanging above it.An old banyan in Bhagat Khapa village, Chhindwara, with a round platform built around its trunk.Photo: Kaushlendrapathe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
Three round-pin plugs of falling sizes on a brown table, each with one long thick pin above two shorter ones.Three BS 546 round-pin plugs, from the largest to the smallest.Photo: Ziltro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The chrome valve of a medical oxygen cylinder, with small holes drilled in its flat face below the gas outlet.The valve of a small medical oxygen cylinder.Photo: Peter Southwood, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
Nested rectangles show the A-series paper sizes from A0 down to A8, each sheet split in half to make the next, with sizes in millimetres.The A series as nested sheets: A0 halved again and again down to A8, and every half keeps the shape of the sheet it came from.Diagram: "A size illustration" by Bromskloss, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
VideoContainerization: The Most Influential Invention That You've Never Heard OfFrom the channel Wendover Productions. Watch the full video.
The top corner of a white shipping container: a rusty cast steel block with an oval hole in its top and in each outer face.A shipping container's corner fitting, with oval holes in its top and sides.Photo: ArnoldReinhold, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.

Part 4: Design that shapes behaviour, and your question

Rows of black posts and belts fold an empty queue back and forth across a paved yard in front of a low school building.An empty queue line of posts and belts in Gilroy, California.Photo: Minh Nguyen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A raised hump across an asphalt street, painted with a black and white checkerboard so drivers see it from afar.A speed bump in Helsinki, painted in a checkerboard: friction built into a road on purpose.Photo: "Speed bump with checkerboard marking" by Eric Fischer, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A long fish trap woven from thin strips of bamboo, narrowing to a point at one end.A woven bamboo fish trap.Photo: পাপৰি বৰা, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
A platform screen shows the next train, its stopping stations and a large label saying it leaves in a few minutes.A platform display at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne: the next train, its stops and the minutes to wait, read in seconds.Photo: "Platform 1 passenger information display for a train to Hurstbridge at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne" by Philip Mallis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.
An empty metro station walkway under coloured lights, railings on both sides, and a strip of ridged tiles that turns at a studded square.A walkway in Kasba Peth metro station, Pune.Photo: DesiBoy101, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The free preview

Unglazed clay water pots stacked for sale, with round bellies and wide rims, one fitted with a small plastic tap.Clay water pots for sale in Hyderabad.Photo: Bhaskaranaidu, public domain (released by its author), via Wikimedia Commons.
An empty classroom with rows of wooden desks and chairs, two ceiling fans, open windows and a green blackboard.Someone chose the height of every desk, the place of every fan and the width of every window.Photo: "Classroom" by Barry Pousman from New York, NY, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
A wide, flat metal bar runs across a frosted glass door, with the word push set in a triangle at its centre.A push bar on a lobby door at 570 Lexington Avenue: wide, flat and fixed across the door, made for a palm, with the word built in.Photo: Spinklink, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Two curved metal pull handles on a pair of panelled doors, each standing off the wood with room behind it for fingers.Door pulls at the US Department of the Interior: each handle stands off the door and leaves room behind it for your fingers.Photo: Historic American Buildings Survey, public domain (US government work), via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India.
VideoIt's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.From the channel Vox. Watch the full video.
A green sign on a glass door reads push in Hebrew and English.A push sign on a glass door in Jerusalem, in Hebrew and English.Photo: "Jerusalem hebrew Push sign" by Djampa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped by One Young India. The crop is shared under the same licence.

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