Aral Balkan
If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that doesn’t differentiate between people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit those you so readily lump together with them.
Design for humans. Call them people. All else is secondary.
ryan onstott
@aral gaslighting is built into the roots of tech
Aral Balkan
@fmhueffer * of Big Tech.
We can have different tech if we have different ideologies underpinning it. e.g., Small Tech:
Aral Balkan
@blogdiva Thanks :)
And we can (and must) go beyond “static”. The Small Web vision is that people can have a dynamic site that can be (at least one of) their online identities. Protected by public-key encryption so that we can interact with each other privately (end-to-end encrypted) without Big Tech intermediaries and also be public as we please.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@aral i really really love this. i was perusing your & your partners sites and am now intrigued. i have to spend a day looking into what y'all built with your foundation. i love the idea of web0. and i agree: everybody should have the ability to have a small static site. that used to be the case back in the wild west days of internet providers. with consolidation and monopoly, it was one of the first things to be disappeared. we need to legislate that back.
Aral Balkan
@rdela @raganwald @AngelaPreston @fasterandworse @mileposter @xinmyname @fmhueffer @blogdiva Abuse is definitely the right word when talking about the majority of the UX work that goes on: manipulating people in line with toxic business models.
Ricky de Laveaga
@raganwald @aral @AngelaPreston @fasterandworse @mileposter @xinmyname @fmhueffer @blogdiva HCI is a great term but not sure it works as a drop in substitute for all the different ways people (ab)use “UX”
Ricky de Laveaga
@aral @raganwald @AngelaPreston @fasterandworse @mileposter @xinmyname @fmhueffer @blogdiva yes yes yes and then we stop using UX and say HX or (Human) Interface Design? ID? Or HID like Apple’s HIG?
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=v8a3aetj
Reg Braithwaite 🍓
@rdela @aral @AngelaPreston @fasterandworse @mileposter @xinmyname @fmhueffer @blogdiva
I used to belong to the HCI SIG. "Human Computer Interface" is rather dry, but it "Remembers to human."
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