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Why Do We Interface? — Information

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The frontier of technology is always exciting, sometimes toxic, and almost always misunderstood. As designers and technologists we have a responsibility to shape our future interfaces into something responsible. In this micro-book I take a historical look at interfaces to build an understanding of how they allow us to utilize information in such powerful ways that they can fundamentally change what it means to be human. As a product designer, writing this was a way for me to both share but more importantly explore a variety of observations and questions I have been wrestling with the past few years about my own relationship with technology. I originally presented this in 2018 at the SFUXD meetup in San Francisco, CA and converted it into this website in the summer of 2020 after several months of strict quarantine gave me new perspective on our relationship with technology Interfaces Are for Information Design as Dance We Interface Because We Are Human Conclusion a horrifying sort-of-fu

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