Interaction Design: Serving Corporate Needs

Abstract

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.

Affiliations

Masters student in Interaction Design

Department of Applied Information Technology

Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96, Gothenburg, Sweden

Contributors

Keyvan Minoukadeh

Conference

Publication date: July 2011

Publication date (Print): July 2011

Pages: 12-17

ID: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2011.20

Copyright statement: © Keyvan Minoukadeh. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of HCI 2011 The 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of HCI 2011 The 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 25

Conference location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Conference date: 4 - 8 July 2011

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction

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Product Information: 1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing