facebook has killed your designer - the age of superstructures and distributed media
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The document discusses the impact of social media and digital content delivery systems on design and content creation, questioning whether such systems create 'junkspace' that limits genuine user engagement. It suggests that existing designs prioritize efficiency and machine interaction over human experience, creating a paradoxical environment detrimental to well-being. The author advocates for a future design language that is human-centric, embracing emotion, collaboration, and community needs, rather than merely serving engineering requirements.
facebook has killed your designer - the age of superstructures and distributed media
- 1. facebook has killed your designer the age of superstructures and distributed media @robboynes
- 18. building in the shadow of the superstructure
- 34. meanwhile
- 36. are we just creating junkspace?
- 37. Should we as content creators and designers be trying to remove people from the networks they inhabit to impose on them our hierarchies of content and user flows?
- 38. Should we be disrupting a users consumption and impose new behaviours just to register a click, a visit or a metric?
- 39. “products that require a high degree of behaviour change are doomed to fail” Nir Eyal
- 41. Content Delivery System RSS Mobile APP Social Networks Content Archive Attributed Public Private / Partner Summary Email Daily Email Weekly Email Attributed Public Email Apple News (Free) Apple News Subscription (TBA) Mail Chimp Integration Sponsored/Branded Content Sponsored/Branded Content Sponsored/Branded Content (TBA) Sponsored/Branded Content #Channels (Subscribe) Sponsored/Branded Content
- 43. deep linking
- 44. access to users
- 47. “Everyone is part of a limitless branching tree of curation, and everyone is choosing a particular tangle of branches. The whole is an interlocking library of Best Of playlists” James Gleick, NYT
- 48. better analytics
- 49. voice
- 50. future
- 51. homogenisation
- 57. ok google hey siri
- 58. designed for ease of input designed for browsers designed for speed designed for machines
- 59. the death of individually created experiences
- 60. “a machine for living in” Le Corbusier
- 61. utopia
- 62. dieter
- 63. modern ism
- 65. “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises”
- 67. form and function replaces reaction and emotion
- 68. white space and order replaces mess and disorder
- 69. no mistakes no reactions no challenge
- 71. “Paradoxically the pursuit of hyper-efficiency in all areas of life results in unfit human beings and a peculiarly unfit-for-organically-alive- human-beings environment.” Donald Kuspit
- 81. but is it good design?
- 82. post-modern
- 83. enabling the machine at the expense of the human undermines the power of design as a human construct
- 84. a future design language that isn’t based purely in engineering requirements
- 85. a future design language that facilitates the human that uses it over the machine that supports it
- 86. a future design language that embraces human needs and entertains mistakes
- 87. a future design language that supports emotion, discussion and ethics
- 88. a future design language that enables communities and education
- 89. a future design language that is complex yet open and collaborative
- 90. @robboynes
- 91. facebook has killed your designer the age of superstructures and distributed media @robboynes