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   Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:14:42 JST Stephen Farrugia

   Video Dispatch: A Use Case is a Trojan Horse

   A use case is a solution to a problem they wish you had

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JdvqGafAk

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     Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:14:41 JST Stephen Farrugia

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     The gist: The tech industry has rejected the design process of starting with a purpose and deliberating over ways to satisfy it and, instead, latched on to a model of making the thing first and then deliberating over possible purposes it can satisfy.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:39:17 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @fasterandworse >use case
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     Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:39:18 JST Stephen Farrugia

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     The health and emergency benefits of the apple watch serve as a good example because in order to access those benefits you have to buy a device which carries the baggage of ever-connectedness and luxury surveillance https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/amazon-tracking-devices-surveillance-state/671772/
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     Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:39:18 JST Stephen Farrugia

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     Even if the use case is virtuous, like the health benefits of the apple watch, it is not the reason the product came into existence. The maker can't be trusted to adopt the importance you may hold for that use case because it would cost them attention to other use cases.
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     Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 03:39:19 JST Stephen Farrugia

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     A use case is a solution to a problem they wish people had. This means that the use case will always be smaller than the thing that was created in the first place. There will always be additional baggage around the benefits the thing provides for any particular purpose.
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