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toward an ethical product design framework

by skyler *
109 blocks • 3 days ago

A design guide for creating transformative social experiences, inspired by lessons from sex parties, funerals, and wilderness trips.

Patterns of Transformation: Designing...

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Jen Wang 's essay does a brilliant job of challenging the neutrality/whiteness of modernist design aesthetics, as part of a broader analysis on the intersections of racism and design. - "You can't be neutral on a moving train." - Howard Zinn In 1991, Brenda Mitchell-Powell published an ar

Now You See It: Helvetica, Modernism...

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"Design Thinking": Defending Silicon Valley at the Apex of Global Labor Hierarchies

"Design Thinking": Defending Silicon...

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The-Web-as-History.pdf

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Norman-Potter-Design-for-designing.pdf

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Digital technologies are everywhere: in our lives, our homes, our work, our infrastructure. They move fast, and they've never been easier to deploy: "We're not hand-crafting dovetail joints here," as Anne Currie wrote in The Register .

Oaths, pledges and manifestos: a master...

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Updated 18 days ago

The lived experiences of digital platform users is at odds with how these systems are designed. Weaponised design - a process that allows for harm of users within the defined bounds of a designed system - is faciliated by designers who are oblivious to the politics of digital infrastructure or consider their design practice output to be apolitical.

On Weaponised Design

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Updated 23 days ago

Debate: What responsibility does a platform hold for the actions of its users?

Helen Tran on Twitter

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Updated a month ago

I'm James Bridle . I'm a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don't want what I'm talking about here anywhere near my own site. Please be advised: this essay describes disturbing things and links to disturbing graphic and video content.

Something is wrong on the internet -...

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Updated a month ago

This is a project I did many years ago in New York, where we placed these really obnoxious cones on the sidewalk, only to have people completely obey them without questioning why they had to walk through these silly obstacles.

The User Experience of Design Systems

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Updated a month ago

In the nineteen-seventies, when I was a teen-ager and had fantasies of growing up to be a writer, I didn't dream of being a novelist or a poet. I wanted to be a critic. I thought criticism was exciting, and I found critics admirable. This was because I learned from them.

A Critic's Manifesto

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Updated 2 months ago

Challenge #1: reverse this statement'We must shift America from a needs, to a desires culture, people must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old had been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America.

A Crap Futures Manifesto

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Updated 2 months ago

Predictably, platforms have long been intoxicating to investors. They've also been the subject of rapturous popular business writing. In their 2016 book "Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms," the economists David S.

Platform Companies Are Becoming More...

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Updated 2 months ago

Abstract The Facebook interface is filled with numbers that count users' friends, comments, and "likes." By combining theories of agency in artworks and materials with a software studies analysis of quantifications in the Facebook interface, this paper examines how these metrics prescribe sociality within the site's online social network.

What Do Metrics Want? How...

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Updated 2 months ago

In my note to Mark Zuckerberg, I urged his team and other technologists to reimagine their products as "practice spaces" - virtual places where people practice the kinds of acts and relationships they find meaningful. In this post, I will show how this is concretely possible.

How to Design Social Systems (Without...

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Updated 2 months ago

The Twelfth Annual Game Design Think Tank Project Horseshoe 2017

Project Horseshoe 2017 report section 3

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Updated 2 months ago

February Palette Party

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