Place

Be wary of visions of the future that overlook the value of context and require people to give up aspects of their humanity to better configure with the technology or product.

The idea of “digital ground” is a plea for interaction designers to create more opportunities to feel a sense of place. This entails fostering existing patterns of community and promoting agency through embodied participation.

We can understand a sense of place as a starting point for a new way of measuring the value of our experiences and interactions; a more expansive measure than solely economic models of value that often leave us bereft of the feeling of being human.

Technology design should focus less on how to move things more efficiently and more on how to make the right local connections that would have gone unrecognized otherwise.