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Finally, part 3: the toaster. A toaster is a small electric kitchen appliance used to toast slices of bread. It has been around, almost unchanged (in its mainstream version) for more than 100 years. Our interaction with it, I suspect, hasn’t changed much either:

During our week-long course with Bert Bongers; Maria, Valentina, Dominika and I redesigned a toaster. You may also want to read part 1 and part 2 of this series of posts to learn about the concepts that we put into practice. Part 3 presents our analysis of the current toaster, and our redesign.

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This post is the second part in the series: the clock. As I mentioned before, I had this lecture with Bert Bongers where he introduced the concept of device parsing, which he came up with (if I’m not mistaken). There, together with Dominika, Maria and Valentina, I did the parsing of a clock.  In this second part, I would like to explain what device parsing is about, illustrating the explanation with our own experience parsing the clock in the image on the left.

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