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Simple concept plus known form equals great idea

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I love it when someone takes a widely accepted form and adds a simple concept to come up with a really great idea. What’s really great about this ides is that it’s also a catalyst for change.

Let’s take a look at Dice for Change©

Dice for Change

Many of us strive to be a better person. To take better care of ourselves, to be more kind to one another or to improve the world we live in.

These three dice are designed to help you start and act on what you care about. Simply roll the dice to introduce new routines into your life in a playful way and notice how even small and simple actions have a greater positive effect on life.

DiceForChange is a concept by Creative Heroes, a creation studio in the Netherlands.

If interested DiceForChange can be purchased from Amazon.com

So why is this product so good?

No barrier to use:

Dice are a well known form and have been in our culture for thousands of years. This means that we don’t need to be trained on how to use them. They fit nicely in our hands – very tactile.  They require no training and no skill.

Easy to understand:

It’s a well used cliché but a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case a very simple picture or icon communicates a broad concept and action.

The power of incremental change:

There are a lot of great ideas out there. A many require a grand vision and a real leap of faith to take us beyond the current realities. And others… well others like the Dice for Change allow us to take small incremental each day.

Incremental changes quietly and gently alters our thinking, our altitudes, and eventually our behavior. Packaging the concepts for change into a form of game puts it within everyone’s reach.

If interested DiceForChange can be purchased from Amazon.com


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Here’s an example (from an article from the New York Times) where function is overtaking form. A camera no longer needs to be a camera.

“It’s much easier to share those pictures with my friends,” she explained, through social networks or e-mail. “With my point-and-shoot, I have to plug it into my computer and upload the photos. It’s just a few more steps than I want to take.”The point-and-shoot camera, which has been a part of American households since 1900, when George Eastman introduced the Kodak Brownie, is endangered. Like other single-use devices — the answering machine, the desktop calculator, the Rolodex — it is being shoved aside by a multipurpose device: the smartphone and its camera, which takes better snapshots with each new model.

via In Smartphone Era, Point-and-Shoots Stay Home – NYTimes.com.

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