This is an old picture I took in a taxi driver in Daejeon, South Korea and is connected with the concept exploited by Don Norman of "We are all designers" (see his "Emotional Design" book), and then reprised by one of our older posts. In the picture you can clearly see a GPS navigator on which is mounted a very simple home-made sun-shield: the sun-shield is actually the bottom part of a plastic lunchbox, decorated with few stickers (of which the taxi driver seemed to be pretty fond) and simply put upside down on the screen. It is not my interest here to discuss much about the innovation of this hack (notably all LCD screens are not much visible under sunlight, so it seems to me that a sun-shield is very appropriate for a GPS navigation system which will be most likely put next to the windscreen), but i am interested in emphasizing the importance of collecting data on everyday's hack as natural source of user-centered innovations.
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