I feel that the concept of minimalist design by Rams where he says “Good design is as little design as possible”, interconnects with the screen less design emerging technology. When we consider how we interact with the world, most of it is through the screen whether it be a mobile app or a screen on the phone. Although these are good design meant to aid the life satisfaction of users with the product, it marginalizes users in the process such as the old. Even in modern day China where digitalization has been pushed by not only the culture of communication but also the policies, there are still hundreds of millions of users that do not have this access. Therefore, I’m sort of hesitant on screenless design in terms of creating a response system, especially when the examples noted by Golden are a response system to voice or a response system that remembers what you look like. I feel that it is this smart screenless design that might make the uiux design even more inaccessible to people, at least it will provide them a scare because this sort of interaction is not widespread. It is similar to the use of Siri for smartphone users which isn’t too prevalent.
From the screenless designs, there is also the danger of surveillance that comes into play. One example of this danger of surveillance is being identified 24/7. Whenever you enter a building, it will know who you are and accordingly have data of your past order to inform the cashier. This sort of example is dangerous. It is an invasion of privacy and this sort of surveillance and collection of data does not create the good design experience. It is obtrusive, something that doesn’t make the experience something that I’d want. Rather than what Golden said about the existence of Phantom Vibration Syndrome, I suppose that there might be Phantom Surveillance Syndrome if this persists. Despite being screenless, when people become accustomed to a world of voice surveillance and digital surveillance for convenience purposes, it will push more issues of being watched and overheard.
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