Interaction design: Serving corporate needs
Paper in proceedings, 2011
This paper looks at the ways in which professional interaction designers, despite the all too common rhetoric about serving humanity, end up uncritically serving corporate needs. It covers the conflict between the priorities of business and the goal of design; the influence of universities in setting students up to serve business interests; and how designers can resist by pursuing their own goals as radical professionals.
Corporate interests
Human computer interaction
Ethics
Professionalism
Responsibility
Conformity
Design