Affording Meaning: Design-Oriented Research from the Humanities and Social Sciences

摘要: Author(s): Almquist, Julka; Lupton, Julia | Abstract: User studies, whether conducted through qualitative ethnographic interviews or more clinical and behaviorist analyses of specific affordances interfaces, have remapped design research from a study things to people. Some researchers even argued that without the user, does not exist. Although this focus on users might appear benefit consumers by celebrating their personal experience finding new ways maximize pleasures productivity, critics user model, whose diverse ranks include Johan Redstrom, as well Ellen Peter Lunenfeld, Anthony Dunne Fiona Raby, persuasively studies ultimately construe human subject predictable bundle reflexes impulses can be torqued, tuned, tweaked in order do bidding—and buying—prescribed consumer savvy cabal designers, engineers, marketers. The word “user” itself communicates terrors addiction triumphs functional mastery. In landscape diminishing economic natural resources, vision promoted mainstream is dire need revision. Meanwhile, themselves are striking back, only form D.I.Y., fair labor, green movements, but also simply withdrawing, out sheer necessity, relentless rhythms getting spending dictate our modern lifestyle.