{"id":970,"date":"2003-12-02T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/12\/02\/graphic_design_is_harmless_right.html"},"modified":"2003-12-02T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T16:34:35","slug":"graphic_design_is_harmless_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/12\/02\/graphic_design_is_harmless_right.html","title":{"rendered":"graphic design is harmless, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liz has a <a href=\"http:\/\/social.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu\/mt\/confectious\/archives\/000052.html\">great article<\/a> today on why graphic design is *not* essentially harmless.<\/p>\n<p>All too often, technological\/graphical designers have come to believe that they are working towards the *best* interface, as though there is a universal good.  They fail to remember that design is culturally and politically situated. [If this is a foreign idea to you, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sims.berkeley.edu\/courses\/is204\/f03\/\">some of the materials from Nancy Van House&#8217;s course<\/a> &#8211; social construction of technology, configuring the user, bias&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/\">Love to Adbusters.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz has a great article today on why graphic design is *not* essentially harmless. All too often, technological\/graphical designers have come to believe that they are working towards the *best* interface, as though there is a universal good. They fail to remember that design is culturally and politically situated. [If this is a foreign idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}