Niels Diffrient : Rethinking the way we sit down

Niels Diffrient·TED2002
Rethink the way we sit down
Summary
By chance, the speaker sent a great chair all around the world.
The speaker tells us that he doled out a piece of his romance to anybody who’d pay for his chair. It’s his sense, aesthetic feeling, for the experience revolving around a designed object. He works as a designer for 25 years, he said that he started with a lot of loose ideas, and it continued roughly eight or nine years. He didn’t start with styling sketches. He loosely thought about people in the office, at the workplace.

People who work at their office are sitting in front of computers all day long. Chairs shouldn’t interfere with them, give people stress, and have a lever to adjust. His chair can accommodate people comfortably, it can automatically balance your weight almost, and it needs only a few simple adjustments.

A boy who fell in love with airplanes and was drawing it day after day became a great designer to create wonderful chairs. I like this kind of story also because it makes me interestingly RETHINK what I don’t think before.

Words in this story
steal, stole, stolen / take another's a property without permission, rob
dole /verb/ give donations to the poor; give out in small amounts, hand out sparingly
interfere / impede, obstruct