SMART goals for this week
- Finish first draft of Intro and Literature Review
- Finish How I Experience the Web Parody
- Start Wire framing and iterating designs for project
What I did this week
Monday
I’m hardcoding this at the moment as it’s just a draft and not what I intend for the final project. I’m doing this to just help me figure out how I want people to interact with the diegetic prototypes.
I also did some more writing.
Tuesday
I think I have unconfused myself after talking it out with other people. Careless People by Sarah Wynn Williams was recommended to me to look at it. It made me realise I need to use what she said about Meta actively analysing users in detail for the benefit of advertisers and profit as an example of technofeudalism. However, Meta and advertisers can only do this by making the app addictive and seemingly safe by using UX design in order to gain access to the users in the first place. Then the only reason we are so open to these apps is because they live on our devices. So, how we interact with our device in the first place will give us more control over the apps on it. But this also isn’t a big nefarious plan. It’s because of the history of devices that has made them a perfect tool which Cloudalists have taken advantage of. Also that UX principles have been based on the user being in the cog in the machine for a company to make money rather than the the user being the end goal. This has happened to due to the fact that within the product we are already sold the computer the phone there’s a secondary product that needs to be sold to us so the design of the device has to also turn how the user interacts with the device as a marketing tool to sell the secondary product.
Wednesday-Sunday
I did some work for the Open Source class and had my grandfather’s memorial over the weekend. So I’ve done a rough draft of my intro but no my lit review. I had someone read my intro and got some feedback that the technofeudalism part was well explained but the parts after need more clarification.
I had to explain my thesis a lot of the weekend and it made me realise that the idea may be too surface level and focused on the concept of design rather than impact of design. Not that I have to come up with something new but maybe something to consider in the next iteration.