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Book SynopsisAre digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they?From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life and their influences affect how people live, feel and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives we need to address the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us. Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with. This critical take on the process and implications of interface design looks beyond the mechanics of making, and into the techno-politi
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Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Preface
Introduction: What are digital interfaces? Technological Interfaces Cultural Interfaces Historical Interfaces What does an interface designer do? Theoretical Perspectives and Frameworks
1. Complexity and Fragmentation Fragmented distribution Fragmented devices Fragmented attention Technological approaches Design approaches Research Methods
2. Social Interfaces Design for Social Impact Soft Interfaces: Healthcare and Loneliness Accessibility: Democratization of Tools Collaborative Interfaces: Beyond Western-Centrism Interfaces for Sociality Constructing Social Identities
3. Legal and Political Interfaces Political Interfaces Entangled Interfaces The Political Action of Interfaces A History of Critical Practice Openness and Access Inscrutability and Opacity Critical Interfaces
4. Ethical Interfaces Design as exploitation Unforeseen consequences Legislation Ethical legibility Ethical design cultures Futuring ethical principles Ethical designers
5. Aesthetic Interfaces Aesthetics and the Senses Cultural aesthetics and meaning Aesthetics for use Aesthetics for Empathy
6. Uncertainty, Deviance and Futures Embracing Uncertainty Science-Fiction and Design Design Fiction Design Imaginaries Deviant Interfaces
7. Interviews Anab Jain Dan Lockton Mushon Zer-Aviv Sarah Gold Glossary References Index Acknowledgements
