How to communicate personal comfort and capacity in a place and in a time, discretely and personally, when things are just too intense for you?
How to show people how much energy you feel you have and how much the task ahead will draw off?
These small cards (85mm x 55mm/3.3” x 2.2”) were developed to communicate how you feel in simple, private way.
2 main concepts and 4 underlying ideas can be communicated:
Capacity
Energy available
Energy required
Comfort
Intensity of experience
Intensity of effort
Each idea is a different aspect of communicating something that is within you, based on your judgement and is meaningful in the context of the place and time you are in.
These cards are meant to be private and meant to be disposable. The message you are communicating is about your sense of comfort and capacity in that place and time. Throwing the card away shows your friend or colleague that what you feel now is not necessarily permanent.
Comfort, capacity, privacy and personal autonomy are crucial messages in using these cards.
You can read more about the development of these cards on Medium https://medium.com/@acuity_design/energy-and-intensity-cards-how-to-speak-openly-of-discomfort-yet-maintain-privacy-autonomy-32f385a47ca9
What you get
In this package, you get 25 high quality printed cards with instructions (you download the instructions for free - PDF on Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/vnovx0aqgbizo11/Comfort%20and%20Capacity%20Cards%20Instructions%20for%20posting.pdf)