Interfaces and Us: User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subje

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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Interfaces and Us by Zachary Kaiser We're all familiar with smart TVs making suggestions on our future watching, real-world exercise data being transferred into stats and infographics on our workout apps and turning up our home heating before we start our commute – but how does this world of technological interfaces affect our actions and perceptions of self?When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and predict everything from love to geopolitical conflicts, our own behaviour and choices are artificially changed. Zachary Kaiser explores the harmful social consequences of this idea - balanced against speed and ease for the user - and how design practice and education can respond positively. - Concepts of freedom vs convenience - Smart objects and manipulation - Real world information transformed into data - Technology's decisions made on our behalf FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Historical and Conceptual Roots of the Computable Subjectivity Introduction: Disrupting the Insurance Industry—"Convenience" and "Freedom" Producing and Looping, or, Biopolitics and Biopower The Value of Convenience Freedom and Countercultural Technocracy The Selfish System: Cybernetics and Rational Choice Theory Markets as Information Processors: Cybernetics and Economics The Neoliberal Governmentality Conclusion: Foundations and Ramifications 2. Data=World Introduction: Can You "See" Your Dream Data? Data and World: An Origin Story Computational Instrumentation: Templates and Translations How Computational Instruments Disappear Conclusion: The Great Inversion, or, Operationalism's Legacy 3. Prediction and the Stabilization of Identity Introduction: Whisper and the Scrambling of Algorithmic Anticipation The Digital Production of Fragmentation and Alienation Ontological Insecurity: One Consequence of Fragmentation and Alienation The Digital Mirror Self: Soothing Ontological Insecurity with Computation The Role of UX in Producing, then Soothing, Ontological Insecurity Consequences: Soft Biopower and the Proscription of Potential Conclusion: Becoming Cyborgs 4. The Moral Imperative of Normality through Computational Optimization Introduction: The Optimized Professor and the Pressures of Optimization Measurement, Normativity, and Morality: Two Origin Stories The Moral Imperative of Self-Optimizing Technologies: The Case of the Amazon Halo Consequences: Anxiety, Superfluity, and the Instrumentalization of Interpersonal Interaction Conclusion: Fighting for Servitude as if it Were Salvation 5. The Questions of Political Economy and the Role of Design Education Introduction Question 1: The Issue of Political Economy and Chile's Socialist Cybernetics Question 2: The Role of Design Education in Resisting the "Reality" of the Computable Subjectivity and the Reformist Approach Conclusion: Returning to Political Economy and the Limits of the Reformist Approach to Design Education Conclusion: Towards a Luddite Design Education The Politics of UX and the Computable Subject as the Ideal Political Subject The Lingering Problem: The Computable Subjectivity and Political Economy The Revolutionary Approach: Luddite Design Education A Provisional Program of Luddite Design Education A Luddite Design Education, Now Bibliography Index Review Zach Kaiser's Interfaces and Us dares to peel back the plastic film protecting interface design to reveal how it is both shapes and is shaped by everything from convenience and consumerism to market forces and economic inequality. While finally putting to rest the idea that design is inherently neutral, it's an indispensable guide to the politics of how we interface not just with the digital systems around us, but with late capitalism itself. -- Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail, Canada Interfaces and Us blends theory, art, activism and pedagogy into a cogent story about the making of selves and societies. This incisive text will be an inflection point for design education. -- Jenny L. Davis, School of Sociology, The Australian National University Shedding light on User Experience as an academic discipline, while exploring the intricate connection between data, culture, and design, Interfaces and Us is a timely read for designers grappling with the role they play in a world being transformed by data. * Design and Culture * Promotional An exploration of interface design's wider role in contemporary society, told through the lens of design, which allows readers to consider their moral and ethical role as designers Promotional "Headline" An exploration of interface design's wider role in contemporary society, told through the lens of design, which allows readers to consider their moral and ethical role as designers Feature Reflects contemporary discussions from within design and wider implications of big data, technological predictions and computational subjectivity in a way that taps into the zeitgeist around concerns of how our information is being used - and abused Details ISBN 1350245259 Author Zachary Kaiser Short Title Interfaces and Us Pages 224 Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1350245259 ISBN-13 9781350245259 Format Hardcover Subtitle User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 29 color illus Publication Date 2023-02-09 NZ Release Date 2023-02-09 DEWEY 303.4833 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-04-05 Country of Origin GB Product Class Description Computing: Professional & Programming UK Release Date 2023-02-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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