Slides for the presentation at UXcamp Europe 2013 in Berlin.

1. Kitsch
bad taste and loving it
Lutz Schmitt – UXcamp Europe – Berlin 2013
photo by brownpau on flickr.com cc-by-2.0

2. Glad you made it!
Thank you for joining.

3. What is kitsch?

4. An object of ridiculous color or shape
meant to draw attention, where the
proud owner is usually someone who
could be seen as person
without taste.

5. inapropriate use of overblown
emotions; something silly, but
without any humour in it; lack of a
sense of adequacy.

6. The art of bad taste. Something
pretending to be something it isn't.
Like a pepper mill in the shape of
the Eiffel Tower

7. Things with too much of
everything, just lacking a sense for
what is appropriate.

8. exaggeration
(kitsch has no limits)

9. photo by Won-Tolla on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

10. misplacement
(kitsch doesn't know a wrong place)

11. photo by oxfordian.world on flickr.com cc-by-nd-2.0

12. photo by extraface on flickr.com cc-by-nc-nd-2.0

13. 1987. HMS Sealion returning from Falklands Patrol.
Jolly Roger showing 2 daggers for 2 covert missions successfully undertaken.
photo by Chris_Parfitt on flickr.com cc-by-2.0

14. reduce to ornament
(kitsch doesn't need meaning)

15. photo by Hanan Cohen on flickr.com cc-by-sa-2.0

16. disfunction
(kitsch won't be useful)

17. photo by Capobello Island on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

18. photo by crunchcandy on flickr.com cc-by-nc-nd-2.0

19. mimicry
(kitsch seems to be something else)

20. photo by alleewillis on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

21. compression
(there can't be too much kitsch)

22. photo by Speed-Light on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

23. photo by MaxVT on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

24. photo by brownpau on flickr.com cc-by-2.0

25. collection
(kitsch never wants to be alone)

26. photo by crackedmoon on flickr.com cc-by-nc-nd-2.0

27. artificial
(kitsch's nature)

28. photo by Lutz Schmitt cc-by-sa-2.0

29. decoration
(just add kitsch)

30. photo by raffael brustia on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

31. kitsch isn't ironic
(and irony is probably just kitsch)

32. photo by Zepton on flickr.com cc-by-nc-nd-2.0

33. photo by blush-printables on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

34. point of view
(Maybe only you think that's kitsch)

35. photo by dbtelford on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

36. photo by rockzoom_de on flickr.com cc-by-nc-sa-2.0

37. kitsch is not bad taste

38. kitsch is a cold hard feeling

39. kitsch is a fuzzy warm feeling

40. kitsch is mass culture

41. kitsch is a manifested dream

42. kitsch is pop

43. Have a nice day!