Solving Problems that aren’t broken

I’m sure it’s pos­si­ble to build a bet­ter mouse­trap. It’s cer­tainly pos­si­ble to build a bet­ter stop light, as proved by Eko Design. This sim­ple design change could con­ceiv­ably save mil­lions of bar­rels of oil and count­less lives by giv­ing dri­vers more infor­ma­tion about when a light will change from red to green.

One of the painful habits of a designer is to see that every­thing is bro­ken.

Eko: A Traffic Light Augmented by Progress Bars — infor­ma­tion aes­thet­ics.