This 'Industrial Design Supersite' has a great article on Richard Wentworth (artist) and Jane Sulton Furi (founder of IDEO)
looking at http://www.core77.com/reactor/03.07_parallel.asp
Jane Sulton Furi has a whole site dedicated to the subtle ways in which people react to the world around them, including a collection of many people's images and stories. She categorises these seemingly 'thoughtless acts' as reacting, adapting, co-opting, etc. Ways we engage thoughtlessly. Fulton Suri has used these categories as an organizing principle, and believes such details reveal larger patterns and bigger insights.
http://www.thoughtlessacts.com/
Although their visual outcomes are not dissimilar, what's interesting is the artist's more serendipitous perspective on the world in comparison to the designers. Yet Wentworth also categorises: "It doesn't take very long to realize that some are warnings, some repairs, some reminders, some adjustments." As the author states "Where others may have simply seen a sandwich—if anything at all—Wentworth notices the details which fit his world view."
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