Natasha daushol, author of adiction by design, will explain how designers can overwhelm our sense of self control. Sholl reveal how incromental outgrades o machines can lead to the gradient descent of mankind. We shall explain why this descent will continue further than any design intended until we look beyond the isolated apy testing results and consider the collective wallop our designs will have on humanity.
Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, has spent years studying how slot machines hold gamblers spellbound, in an endless loop of play. She never imagined the addictive designs which she had first witnessed in Las Vegas would go bounding into Silicon Valley and reappear on virtually every smartphone screen worldwide. In the first segment of this two-part interview, Natasha Dow Schüll offers a prescient warning to users and designers alike: How far can the attention economy go toward stealing another moment of your time? Farther than you might imagine.