Design Notes

Why I started designing QR codes

February 17, 2011·1 min read

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There's only one reason I started thinking about QR code design.

For people who don't have a smartphone,

in other words,

for people who have a little less than others,

QR codes - the ones stuck on the street or on products,

or shown on the internet,

are nothing but

visual pollution to them.

They're just garbage, in other words.

They

aren't physically disabled,

but they can't read them, can't feel them,

can't even relate to them.

For the sake of one slightly convenient piece of technology,

our lives are quietly, without us realizing,

dividing and separating us from each other.

That garbage-like thing,

(that someone might feel that way about),

that someone, or many people, worked hard to make,

and that, after lying buried for a while, is finally getting its moment in the light -

I wanted to make a QR code

that everyone could read,

that everyone could feel,

that everyone could relate to.

I didn't want it to end up as just a sales gimmick or a marketing tool,

so I

hoped that all of us could relate and connect through it...

This English version was translated by Claude.

Written by

Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.