- Name one place/time where you are in complete control of your attention?
I would say probably in the shower, or when I close my eyelids. To be honest it’s whenever I am isolated from the world and my cellular.
- When has an app helped you do what you wanted? When has it moved you away from your own goal?
The camera helped me take a picture of me and my friends. However, Instagram moves me away from goals by distracting me and making me procrastinate.
- Pick an app that is useful to you. Suggest a design choice that makes it remain useful but eliminates a dark pattern.
Youtube is useful to me because I use it to learn a lot about God and I use it for class. One thing I’d take away from it would be the YouTube shorts videos. They are youtube’s response to the endless scrolling trend most apps use now. I love YouTube, but I find myself accidentally scrolling shorts when I don’t want to be.
The pattern lies within the endless scrolling tactic which keeps the user engaged. Its encoded value is control, they want to control and keep our attention so we use their app longer. The beneficiaries are the company whose platform I’m using and also the creator who makes the short form content that I am scrolling.
- Problem: Ai taking jobs
- Goal: make jobs faster and cheaper to operate
- pattern: companies destroy land for data centers and people lose their jobs
- values: profit, control, convenience
- Beneficiaries: Ai overlords and CEO’s
- Big Change: Remove Ai completely from my daily life. Anything I do I can do on my own. Remove Ai from the internet. Google worked just fine before ai.
