http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/05/05/technology-designed-to-serve-others/ How do people use products, systems and environments? How can designers influence interaction? How can we design for sustainable behaviour? Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:29:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/05/05/technology-designed-to-serve-others/#comment-36854 Who serves whom at fulminate // Architectures of Control Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:54:25 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=64#comment-36854 [...] I mentioned before that to a large extent, that’s what architectures of control are: features of products, systems and environments designed to serve someone other than the user: Now that ’someone else’ might be ‘the good of society’, but in more cases than not, the someone else is a company [or a cartel] wanting to enforce a business model on the user, or a government wishing to enforce an ideology or mode of behaviour. [...] [...] I mentioned before that to a large extent, that’s what architectures of control are: features of products, systems and environments designed to serve someone other than the user: Now that ’someone else’ might be ‘the good of society’, but in more cases than not, the someone else is a company [or a cartel] wanting to enforce a business model on the user, or a government wishing to enforce an ideology or mode of behaviour. [...]

]]> http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2006/05/05/technology-designed-to-serve-others/#comment-1150 Jim Coleman Wed, 31 May 2006 19:26:12 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/?p=64#comment-1150 It seems that users have lost the ability to read and understand. Everywhere I look I see examples of the "trainwrecks" caused by technological abuse of the user by corporations and the government (as well as being the victim of a "trainwreck" myself). Yet they (users) continue to lap it up, and a great portion even defend the perpetrators of the controlling technology. Talk about "sheep being led to the slaughter", the majority of them won't wake up until their neck is on the chopping block and they see the axe begin to fall. It seems that users have lost the ability to read and understand. Everywhere I look I see examples of the “trainwrecks” caused by technological abuse of the user by corporations and the government (as well as being the victim of a “trainwreck” myself).
Yet they (users) continue to lap it up, and a great portion even defend the perpetrators of the controlling technology.
Talk about “sheep being led to the slaughter”, the majority of them won’t wake up until their neck is on the chopping block and they see the axe begin to fall.

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