facebook has killed your designer

the age of superstructures and distributed media @robboynes

super structures

building in the shadow of the superstructure

1.49 billion

304 million

meanwhile

are we just creating junkspace?

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?

Should we be disrupting a users consumption and impose new behaviours just to register a click, a visit or a metric?

“products that require a high degree of behaviour change are doomed to fail” Nir Eyal

existing within the superstructure

Content Delivery System

RSS

Mobile APPSocial Networks

Content Archive

Attributed Public Private / Partner

Summary Email Daily Email Weekly Email

Attributed

Public Email

Apple News (Free)

Apple NewsSubscription (TBA)

Mail ChimpIntegration

Sponsored/BrandedContent

Sponsored/BrandedContent

Sponsored/BrandedContent (TBA) Sponsored/Branded

Content

#Channels(Subscribe)

Sponsored/BrandedContent

cost of materials

deep linking

access to users

quick to load easy to share

it curates itself

“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

betteranalytics

voice

future

homogenisation

ok google hey siri

designed for ease of input designed for browsers designed for speed designed for machines

the death of individually created experiences

“a machine for living in” Le Corbusier

utopia

dieter

modernism

ten principles of good design

“an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises”

“is my design good design?”

form and function replaces reaction and emotion

white space and order replaces mess and disorder

no mistakes no reactions no challenge

the planned community

“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

creating chaos from order

but is it good design?

post-modern

enabling the machine at the expense of the human undermines the power of design as a human construct

a future design language that isn’t based purely in engineering requirements

a future design language that facilitates the human that uses it over the machine that supports it

a future design language that embraces human needs and entertains mistakes

a future design language that supports emotion, discussion and ethics

a future design language that enables communities and education

a future design language that is complex yet open and collaborative

@robboynes

facebook has killed your designer

the age of superstructures and distributed media @robboynes