Ben Stopher, John Fass, Eva Verhoeven, Tobias Revell

Design and Digital Interfaces (eBook, ePUB)

Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Are 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-political realm of deliberate and unintended consequences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350068292
• Artikelnr.: 62017466

Autorenporträt

Ben Stopher is Programme Director: Interactive & Visual Communication at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He has extensive experience as a practitioner and creative consultant in communication and digital design.

John Fass has been a designer and art director for fifteen years working in photography, information architecture, user experience design, interaction design and design research. He is course leader for Information and Interface Design at the London College of Communication, and PhD Researcher at the Royal College of Art, London.

Tobias Revell holds an MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art from which he graduated in July 2012. He is one of the course leaders for BA Information & Interface Design at the London College of Communication.

Dr Eva Verhoeven was awarded her PhD in Digital Creative Practice from Wimbledon School of Art/University. She is Course Leader of MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication

Inhaltsangabe

List 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