- Jan 2025
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cyberneticforests.substack.com cyberneticforests.substack.com
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Compostable social media might aim for organic control over its look, feel, and design rather than organized control over the user. It would interpret content as a series of signals: a heap that could attract or repel users according to their own, self-created, emergent incentives.
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Facebook should first be understood not as a “social network” but as a conversational mediation system. It is designed not to expand your social interactions, but to limit and mediate them for profit. That’s not even a critique! It’s just exactly what the technology is if you define it by what it does.
Beer, the purpose of a system is what it does
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where the boundary of a system truly rests
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Rather than extrapolating for all time, you could just ask, “what did the last 10 people do?” It would be a great way to create new patterns, as we can’t get big data anyway.
in what context is this fruitful
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- May 2018
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current.ecuad.ca current.ecuad.ca
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They can enable individuals to reflect on the personal and social impact of new technologies, and provide a provocative, speculative, and rich vision of our technological future that avoids the clichés of consumerist-oriented industrial design.
Although this article emphasized the difference between critical design and critical making, the later being more process oriented and involving information systems than only physical objects I wish the author could have illustrated that with an example. How to make a digital object critically? How to think of UI design patterns critically? All the tacit knowledge a UI and UXer is expected to have in order to get hired and that they use everyday. If the aim of critical making of information systems concern is to uncover the embedded values in software and the process of designing of software than it also needs to question the industry jargon and process which forms the lived experience of designers everyday.
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