#dande2014

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BILLEGAS con Marco Van Hout on Flickr.

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BILLEGAS en la Conferencia de Design and Emotions 2014 on Flickr.

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On the 9th of October 2014, I had the opportunity to present my paper "Feeding your Piggy Bank with Intentions" at the 9th Design and Emotions Conference - Colors of Care, hosted by Universidad de los Andes. As many of you might know, I am interested on the emotional impact that saving money can have on our subjective well-being. The paper had as a case of study the BILLEGAS piggy bank and the idea was, using the Positive Design Framework (Pohlmeyer and Desmet, 2013), to evaluate the characteristics that could motivate users to save money in a more meaningful way. 

Also I was very luck to share stage with two talented design researchers. Andrew Shea, who's presentation was about how design can help changing or creating habits; and Deger Ozkaramanli, with her research about conflicting concerns and how to take advantage of these conflicts in order to find new design opportunities. designwithdilemmas

If you are interested on reading the paper, it'll be soon indexed, so stay tune.

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Durante la Conferencia de Design and Emotions 2014, tuvimos la oportunidad de conocer a Alberto Mantilla, cofundador de Curve ID y diseñador Colombiano de gran trayectoria a nivel mundial. Y así mismo él tuvo la oportunidad de conocer BILLEGAS. Nos contó que esta en proceso de enseñarle a sus hijos a ahorrar y por eso pensó que BILLEGAS podía ser una muy bonita forma de fomentarles el ahorro a sus hijos, Mateo y Camila.