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By referencing research methods in STS (Science, Technology, and Society) field as well as the speculative design approach, this project wishes to empower interface design by focusing on what ideal lives are for users, and raise questions that open up imaginative parallel space for discussions.
Potential outcomes could be a series of small designs to visualize potential redesigned interfaces or interactions between humans & technology via diagrams, wireframes, or prototypes. 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Rethink the interfaces via empowering design","cells":[{"id":0,"value":"# GT Brainstorming session 1 - Rethink the interfaces via empowering design","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":25,"value":"## Background & Focus\n### Empowering Design\nInterface designers are experts in using psychological vulnerabilities for their benefit. Yet when users are given a menu (illusion of free choices), we seldom realize our choices are manipulated upstream by menus we didn’t choose in the first place (what's NOT on the menu). We rarely ask: how empowering the menu we are given, what's the goal behind, or whether it reflects what we care about.
\nThe illusion of free choices hijacks the way we perceive our choices & distracted us with things that don’t actually align with our true needs.","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":278,"value":"#### How Technology is Hijacking Our Mind with...\n- Distractions (variable rewards, curious for the next, fear of missing out, instant interruption)
\n- Vulnerability to social connections (approval, reciprocity)
\n- Infinite flow (unconscious quantity of time & attention spent, bundling with business needs to maximize the time spent, users' inability to forecast the consequences & project cost and benefit while making decisions)
\n- Illusion of free choices (Inconvenient choices to unplug, choices that are NOT labeled with friction required to enact choices)
","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":275,"value":"#### Interfaces need to make room for what matters to us\nConventional rules for interface design were made when computers were tools that we turned to occasionally, yet now computers mediate every aspect of our life, so we need new rules.
\nDesigners need to learn what ideal lives are like for different people (every kind of relationship, thinking style, ideal life, and on different interfaces...) so we can put their values on the screen instead of designers.
\n#### Potential questions such as\nHow might we portrait the real free choices? How might we minimize interruptions and distractions from the users' goals? How might we help users most connected with their socials, those that truly matter in their life? How might we cut the infinite flow of consumption and bottomless feeds?...","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":241,"value":"### Examples of Empowering redesign\n- Ideal Morning:
\nWhat the screen offers & Current v.s. What matters to the user & Redesign
\n

\n- Ideal Browsing:
\nWhat the screen offers & Current v.s. What matters to the user & Redesign
\n

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":238,"value":"#### Reference: (& to-read)\n[Values-Based Social Design textbook](https://www.notion.so/Values-Based-Social-Design-6397f7852775434982e363924d7e07e7)
\n[Empowering Design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On8ZdoYturw)\n[Choicemaking and the Interface](http://nxhx.org/Choicemaking/)
\n[Tristan Harris - How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist](https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.qsgtv1l6b.)
","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":121,"value":"## 🔺Questions & Possibilities\nBut that's a lot to do for redesigning & rethinking for designers... so what are the possibilities here?
\n- Not necessarily just the interface (a new \"perfect\" layout), but could be a new approach for understanding the overall interaction process\n- Is there a way to investigate how we interact with the interface? or to visualize the movement and navigation on screen?\n- But how do we know what really matters for users while they don't even seem to understand it very well? \n- Could there be a generative approach? How can technology help? What if machine learning could step in?\n- Does it have to be the conventional 2d form since it could be outdated? or can a redesigning solution on 2D interfaces already help imagine the future interfaces?\n- Does it have to be an \"answer\" or a \"solution\" even? ","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":93,"value":"## Potential Mediums\n- Design project:
\nfor example, a series of small projects/ designs to visualize a potential redesign of interfaces or interactions between humans & technology via Design Wireframes, Prototypes, Diagrams, Statistic analysis...etc.
\nCould be rather more interactive, imaginative, hypothetical, playful, practical, immersive... \n- Critical Artwork:
\nfor example, visualize how Machine Learning \"sees\" interfaces, visualize interactions and movements, or \"understands\" one's needs, and therefore generates the new to help imagine new interactions...","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":235,"value":"### Examples Works for Inspirations\n- Generative Design: [Evolving Floorplans](https://joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html)
\nExperimental research project exploring speculative, optimized floor plan layouts to minimize walking time, the use of hallways, etc. \n

\n- Machine Learning: [Sarah Friend - Perverse affordances (2018)](http://www.aiartonline.com/art/sarah-friend/)
\nUses GAN to train on dataset of screenshots of global social media platforms and further generated wireframes, or templates, to imagine new interactions.\n

","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":4,"value":"## Methodology referenced from Design & STS\n### Human - Artifacts relationship via research in STS (Science, Technology, and Society) fields\n- Politics in design
\nThink of what are the embedded message of artifacts (e.g. Defensive Design), and how they marginalize people\n- Design - Usage relationship
\nLooking at designed artifacts via Appropriation In Design (設計挪用) to think of the Behavior-steering technology and it's counter technology \n- Thing Ethnography (物件人誌學)
\nLooking at design via a non-human-centered point of view
\n\nReferences:
\n[Do Artifacts Have Politics?](https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf)
\n[Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/things-we-could-design) (以非人為中心)","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":299,"value":"-----------------","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"},{"id":35,"value":"$34","pinned":false,"hidden":false,"mode":"md","author":"$undefined","summary":"$undefined","output":"","database":"$undefined"}],"files":"$W35","stdlib":"1","titling":"auto"}} 33:"$32:body"