The Null Device
Architectures Of Control
Blog of the day:
Architectures Of Control
. Written by an industrial designer, it looks at how products or systems are designed to control the behaviour of their users, explicitly or implicitly. It has posts covering everything from
public seating designed to discourage sleeping or lingering
to
the way that packaged food portion sizes subliminally influence how much people eat
to
interactive museum exhibits subtly forcing people to learn things
embedded in the context of a game, to
deliberately incompatible light sockets
which require compact fluorescent bulbs, and of course, the DRM/"trusted computing" debate. For some reason or other, this blog is
blocked in China
.
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