Guidelines for humane design highlight how products can support or exploit human vulnerabilities, emphasizing emotional well-being, attention management, sense-making, decision-making, group dynamics, and social reasoning resilience.
Linkwe should directly tie the success of our technologies to how much they enable our humanity (as in, our positive human characteristics), and use this criteria to evaluate past, present and future technologies.
Saffron Huang • To be a Technologist is to be Human — Letters to a Young Technologist
“The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics rather than ethics. […] How do you make room for humanity, with all its wondrous variations, in a society increasingly driven by metrics, algorithms, and profit? How can ecologically responsible designers consider a pr
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