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Vorwort
A timely text looking at digital interfaces from the perspective of the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of contemporary designers - taking the conversation around interfaces to the next level.

Autorentext

Ben Stopher, John Fass, Tobias Revell and Eva Verhoeven

Klappentext

*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.

Inhalt

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