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 (DIR) Post #Aw86yp7oOMsj9f0dBA by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T14:20:08Z
       
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       Dispatch #29: Tech As Anti-DesignBecause the means are predeterminedVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ollyMSWSWOYPodcast: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/8ffce464/tech-as-anti-design1/x
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw86yqeSiSaptDIDi4 by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T14:20:35Z
       
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       Technology design takes a predetermined means—computation—and deliberates over purposes it may satisfyThis obscure article published in a '94 issue of Interactions magazine describes this design process inversion wellhttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174809.1748122/x
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw86ysAP5BjmaZFF8S by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T14:20:48Z
       
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       This is an inversion of my own understanding of the design process.Design being the deliberation over methods and materials to find best way to satisfy a predetermined purpose.A fixed purpose arrived at flexibly.3/x
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw86ytM8f2icHFk848 by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T14:21:00Z
       
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       But tech design takes the fixed means of computation and considers any purpose as being flexible.Design is now reduced to being a process of making something "usable" after it has been created.4/x
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw86yuTcUiITkkFcMi by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T14:37:06Z
       
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       This is why the tech industry uses terms like "use case" or "product/market fit".It's all based on the idea that something already built deserves to exist in anticipation of a use for it being found.That is the opposite of design.5/x
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw86yvPP1sWAdxHlQm by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T14:53:04Z
       
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       This is also why everything is general purpose now.It's why people defend products such as generative AI as a "tool" because it's handy for something, but in every case that thing could be satisfied better by a deliberate design.6/x
       
 (DIR) Post #Aw86z0VG5XAmRZ40ki by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2025-07-14T15:31:23Z
       
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       When a design process is confined in how it can satisfy a purpose, we call that a constraint.Design constraints are normal and common, but they are only recognised as constraints because the design process is a response to an unchangeable purpose.7/x