Design and Digital Interfaces

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface

Introduction: What are digital interfaces?
Technological Interfaces
Cultural Interfaces
Historical Interfaces
What does an interface designer do?
Theoretical Perspectives and Frameworks

1. Complexity and Fragmentation
Fragmented distribution
Fragmented devices
Fragmented attention
Technological approaches
Design approaches
Research Methods

2. Social Interfaces
Design for Social Impact
Soft Interfaces: Healthcare and Loneliness
Accessibility: Democratization of Tools
Collaborative Interfaces: Beyond Western-Centrism
Interfaces for Sociality
Constructing Social Identities

3. Legal and Political Interfaces
Political Interfaces
Entangled Interfaces
The Political Action of Interfaces
A History of Critical Practice
Openness and Access
Inscrutability and Opacity
Critical Interfaces

4. Ethical Interfaces
Design as exploitation
Unforeseen consequences
Legislation
Ethical legibility
Ethical design cultures
Futuring ethical principles
Ethical designers

5. Aesthetic Interfaces
Aesthetics and the Senses
Cultural aesthetics and meaning
Aesthetics for use
Aesthetics for Empathy

6. Uncertainty, Deviance and Futures
Embracing Uncertainty
Science-Fiction and Design
Design Fiction
Design Imaginaries
Deviant Interfaces

7. Interviews
Anab Jain
Dan Lockton
Mushon Zer-Aviv
Sarah Gold

Glossary
References
Index
Acknowledgements