Week 4 Assignment: Interface
Reading Response:
American Artist, Black Gooey Universe.
I found this to be a very dense yet enlightening reading- In the first half when the author discusses the emergence of technology and Sillicon Valley, it brought to surface some things that I never came to consider. The fact that the GUI as we know and use today was designed and created by a specific group of people who made specific decisions based on their own principles. Like the author points out, I feel like we, as a group of people or users of such GUI don’t really question the way that user interfaces are structured or designed because it has become such a concrete standard of what we consider to be a computer or a phone. It made me think about my design practice and how I think when I’m designing for the web or mobile, I feel as though my designs are often times very compliant with how things look the way I know and understand the GUI. In other words, I never had the thought to contest those standards or think about how it came to be. I thought that this article was very timely and much needed as we progress as a society and as technology progresses, I think that questioning things that we accept as standard constantly is necessary in order to advance in all areas. One of the lines from the reading that resonated with me the most was the question of “how a broken screen—situated against whiteness, unfixable, unfixed—might operate”. It certainly gave me a lot to think about, the same as the whole reading did.
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