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Banana Stickers

Speaking of nice graphical treatments, have you notice the new stickers on Chiquita bananas?

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I’m not sure if I’ve eaten more bananas as a result of the effort but I did use the luchador mask sticker on a notebook. From Chiquita Banana Redesign:

Inspiration for the face idea first came from seeing what people did with the chiquita stickers after they ate the banana even before we put faces on them.

The takeaway? Start looking at the behaviors of your users and you can give them a nicer experience. This is essential to creating a user centered library.

“When you treat people like idiots, they’ll behave like idiots.”

Have a quick read of The Traffic Guru. It describes how removing traffic rules and signs in a small village prompted people to be more social and become better drivers.

“A year after the change, the results of this “extreme makeover” were striking: Not only had congestion decreased in the ­intersection—­buses spent less time waiting to get through, for ­example—­but there were half as many accidents, even though total car traffic was up by a third.”

Could such a strategy work in your library? Would you be willing to try?


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