I am starting to see a growing movement towards designing net systems humanely, designing things to respect the user’s attention, to be healthy and useful instead of just optimising engagement. are.na and wt.social seem like two products of this movement. Unfortunately, I don’t see a lot of competence here yet. wt.social as it exists now is mostly just baffling.
Honestly I think part of that is that right now the people who are interested in designing those platforms are largely the more “technical” software devs who get more excited about interesting algorithms and infrastructure vs usability.
I am starting to see a growing movement towards designing net systems humanely, designing things to respect the user’s attention, to be healthy and useful instead of just optimising engagement. are.na and wt.social seem like two products of this movement. Unfortunately, I don’t see a lot of competence here yet. wt.social as it exists now is mostly just baffling.
Honestly I think part of that is that right now the people who are interested in designing those platforms are largely the more “technical” software devs who get more excited about interesting algorithms and infrastructure vs usability.