2015 - Manifesto for a critical approach to the user interface - PIPES
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The interface is a very broad concept that goes beyond the limits of the physical and the virtual. To narrow the intended scope of this manifesto, the nature of the interface we are talking about, refers to the [graphical] user-interface in the digital context.
The Manifesto is written in a reseach contex lided by PIPES team, Hangar Barcelona The Manifesto is contextualized a research team PIPES Hangar Barcelona.
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Topics
1. The interface is a device designed and used to facilitate the relationship between systems.
2. (To) interface is a verb (I interface, you interface ...). The interface occurs, is action.
3. The interface exists in the crease between space and time; it is a device and simultaneously a situation. It is rendered (updated under thoughtful conditions) and emergent (joining into something new).
4. The interface collects traces: traces and remains of all agents/agencies which converge in it.
5. The interface is the tip of the iceberg of a complex system of agents/agencies, of interdependent infrastructures, codes, data, applications, laws, corporations, individuals, sounds, spaces, behaviors, objects, protocols, buttons, times, affects, effects, defects...
6. An interface is designed within a cultural context and in turn designs cultural contexts.
7. The interface responds and embodies the economic logic of the system in which you enroll. It is a political device.
8. The ideology of the interface is always embedded in the interface itself, but it is not always visible.
9. Can we make the invisible visible? The more present interfaces are in our lives, the less we perceive them.
10. The interface uses metaphors that create illusions: I am free, I can go back, I have unlimited memory, I am anonymous, I am popular, I am creative, it's free, it's neutral, it is simple, it is universal. Beware of illusions!
11. The standard calls for a universal subject and generates processes of homogenization, but reduces the complexity and diversity . What is not standard?
12. Users are entitled to know what the interface hides. Access to knowledge is a fundamental right.
13. In the design of the interface, not only skills but also emotions and affections are deployed. How are emotions produced and circulated in interfaces?
14. The user uses the interface perform agency, they coproduce each other and therefore they have the ability to define, redefine and contradict themselve by action or omission.
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https://interfacemanifesto.hangar.org/index.php/Main_Page#Puntos_del_manifiesto
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