Category: interaction
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Visual Thinking as Design Practice
Design is often understood as a discipline of communication. But what if its primary role is not to communicate ideas, but to generate them?
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When Digital Tools Become Environments
Marshall McLuhan’s famous dictum “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” seems more relevant than ever in our age. This article explores how technologies evolve from tools into environments, shaping habits, attention, and expectations, and why this shift places new responsibilities on UX and UI designers. Design increasingly operates not at the…
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The Loss of Distance: Real-Time Systems, Perception, and the Digital Present
Contemporary digital systems increasingly eliminate temporal, spatial, and cognitive distance. Drawing on Paul Virilio and Vilém Flusser, this essay examines how real-time interfaces, AI, and platform logics transform perception into an operational process of immediacy, prediction, and behavioral stabilization. In contrast to media artists of the 1960s and 70s who used technology to expose interruption,…
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From Perception to Prediction
Contemporary AI systems promise adaptability, prediction, and optimization. Yet many of the concepts behind today’s data-driven technologies already emerged in the cybernetic art and design experiments of the 1960s and 1970s. The crucial difference lies in their cultural function. While postwar artists and designers developed open systems to expand perception, contemporary AI increasingly transforms systems…