Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design
Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design
Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The prayer companion: openness and specificity, materiality and spirituality
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pleasure is your birthright: digitally enabled designer sex toys as a case of third-wave HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom
Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom
Critical design and critical theory: the challenge of designing for provocation
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Co-creating & identity-making in CSCW: revisiting ethics in design research
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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Critical design is a research through design methodology that foregrounds the ethics of design practice, reveals potentially hidden agendas and values, and explores alternative design values. While it seems to be a timely fit for today's socially, aesthetically, and ethically oriented approaches to HCI, its adoption seems surprisingly limited. We argue that its central concepts and methods are unclear and difficult to adopt. Rather than merely attempting to decode the intentions of its originators, Dunne and Raby, we instead turn to traditions of critical thought in the past 150 years to explore a range of critical ideas and their practical uses. We then suggest ways that these ideas and uses can be leveraged as practical resources for HCI researchers interested in critical design. We also offer readings of two designs, which are not billed as critical designs, but which we argue are critical using a broader formulation of the concept than the one found in the current literature.