IRRATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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The Design of Aesthetic Life
“You can change your life through aesthetics,” begins a TikTok video with 170k+ bookmarks. The creator explains the field of “neuroaesthetics” as in many similar videos on the subject: it presents a way of thinking about the world that offe...
Indebted by Design
The feed is an endless debt you can never catch up on.
Manipulative and persuasive design takes many forms on social media, but at their core, most dark patterns create a feeling of “behindness” through informational overwhelm. They do thi...
Gamified UX, Run Clubs, and the Managerial Function of Play
When I was 9, I had a teacher who we’ll call Mrs P. Mrs P was cool, and young, and she had games in her classroom. We all got put into groups with names, and you could win points that would get you a prize — new pens or an extra 10-minute b...
Attention Is Not A Resource
I have ADHD, so my attention has always had its own momentum, its own preferences, its own sense of when something is finished. Design, by contrast, often aims for some almost mythical centre — an average user that does not truly exist. Eve...
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Job scrolling, Meta on trial, and why Virginia Woolf wrote sci-fi
This is the second issue in my weekly roundup on what I’ve been reading, writing, designing, and thinking about. I’ve been thinking about what we consider sci-fi — and how e...
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