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Design and Digital Interfaces

Designing with Aesthetic and Ethical Awareness
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Design and Digital Interfaces explores the pervasive role of digital interfaces in modern life, from personal assistants like Siri and Amazon Echo to the far-reaching impacts of social media platforms and search engines. The book addresses the urgent need for designers to consider the social, ethical, political, and aesthetic consequences of their work in creating these systems. Featuring insights from leading designers and thinkers worldwide, it advocates for a broadened awareness and responsibility among designers to approach their craft with sensitivity towards users and society.
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Ideal for those interested in design, technology, and ethics, including design professionals, students, and anyone concerned with the societal impact of digital interfaces.

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"Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for. Included are interviews with leading practitioners and clear explanations of high-level concepts"--

A timely text looking at digital interfaces from the perspective of the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of contemporary designers - taking the conversation around interfaces to the next level.

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Are digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they?

From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo to large-scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life, and their influences affect how people live, feel, and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives, we need to address the social, ethical, political, and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us.

Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors of Design and Digital Interfaces explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical, and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with.

This critical take on the process and implications of interface design looks beyond the mechanics of making and into the techno-political realm of deliberate and unintended consequences.

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Design and Digital Interfaces has been praised as an elegantly designed and innovative work, with a reader-friendly structure that allows exploration by module, chapter, or colour-coded themes to suit individual interests. The Society for Technical Communication highlights its powerful and accessible approach.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350068278

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 August 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 30 colour illus

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 397g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Ben Stopher is Programme Director: Interactive & Visual Communication at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He has extensive experience as a practitioner and creative consultant in communication and digital design.

John Fass has been a designer and art director for fifteen years working in photography, information architecture, user experience design, interaction design and design research. He is course leader for Information and Interface Design at the London College of Communication, and PhD Researcher at the Royal College of Art, London.

Tobias Revell holds an MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art from which he graduated in July 2012. He is one of the course leaders for BA Information & Interface Design at the London College of Communication.

Dr Eva Verhoeven was awarded her PhD in Digital Creative Practice from Wimbledon School of Art/University. She is Course Leader of MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication

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