Design and Digital Interfaces

Ben Stopher is Programme Director: Interactive & Visual Communication at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He has extensive experience as a practitioner and creative consultant in communication and digital design. John Fass has been a designer and art director for fifteen years working in photography, information architecture, user experience design, interaction design and design research. He is course leader for Information and Interface Design at the London College of Communication, and PhD Researcher at the Royal College of Art, London. Tobias Revell holds an MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art from which he graduated in July 2012. He is one of the course leaders for BA Information & Interface Design at the London College of Communication. Dr Eva Verhoeven was awarded her PhD in Digital Creative Practice from Wimbledon School of Art/University. She is Course Leader of MA Interaction Design Communication at the London College of Communication

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